Site plans for Snowy Monaro Regional, New South Wales: drawn in minutes
Need a site plan for a shed, patio, carport, deck, pool or granny flat in Snowy Monaro Regional? Site plans and assessments in minutes, drawn over the real lot.
Building in Snowy Monaro Regional
Snowy Monaro runs four plans: one each for the former Cooma-Monaro, Snowy River and Bombala areas, and a newer plan for Jindabyne and East Jindabyne. In the Cooma-Monaro area, tanks and detached structures stay out of the front setback, a share of each residential site stays unpaved, and one shipping container is allowed per residential property, kept off the road and boundaries.
Around Jindabyne and in the old Snowy River area, a house takes the average front setback of its neighbours or a set distance that is deeper for two storeys, and houses with garages and outbuildings cover up to half the lot. In the Bombala area, buildings keep large distances from named rivers and creeks, rural-residential lots sit well back, and the Monaro Highway takes a big setback.
Snowy Monaro Regional Council maps landslide itself. Applications go through the NSW Planning Portal.
What we hold for Snowy Monaro Regional
For Snowy Monaro Regional we hold the council’s own rules for:
- sheds, garden sheds, garages and carports
- patios, pergolas, louvred roofs, decks and shade sails
- pools, fences and retaining walls
- granny flats
- driveways, water tanks and shipping containers
At each lot we check the council’s own mapping for landslide, and the state’s mapping for flood, bushfire, landslide, heritage and native vegetation. We also read the council’s application register for past applications on the lot.
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How approval works in New South Wales
In New South Wales a small structure goes through the planning pathway it fits. Exempt development needs no approval and nothing is lodged, but the structure has to meet every exempt standard and the land must not be excluded from it. Complying development is a fast approval: a complying development certificate from a registered certifier or the council, for work that meets the state's complying standards. Anything else needs a development application to the council, assessed against its local environmental plan and development control plan. The certifier or the council reads the site plan for the structure's size and its distance to each boundary and the house, and for exempt work the plan is the owner's own record. Size, height, distance to each boundary and the land itself decide the pathway, as per the State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008.
Drawing the plan
Type the property address, the lot’s real boundaries load from official land records in New South Wales, and you place the structure over the aerial view. The plan prints to scale with boundary lengths, setback distances, a north arrow, a legend, a site coverage table and a title block, as the site plan for a DA or a complying development certificate.
What a certifier in Snowy Monaro Regional will ask you
How deep is the pool?
The depth decides whether the water needs a barrier, and the barrier has to be in place before the pool is filled. The barrier is what gets inspected, so the sheet shows where it runs and every gate with its swing.
Is the patio a pergola, a louvred roof or a solid roof?
An open pergola and a roofed patio are treated differently near the boundary, and louvres that shut to shed water count as a roof. Roofed, it also adds to the site cover total on the sheet.
Is the lot in an overlay, and what is the zoning?
A flood, bushfire, heritage or character overlay can bring a planning approval on top of the building approval, and the zone decides which of the council’s rules apply. The mapped overlays are read at the lot as the structure goes on the plan.
Is the carport open, or closed in?
How open the carport is changes whether it needs a fire rated wall near the boundary, and a roller door or a later enclosure reopens the question. A shed never takes the open carport exemption.
The figures for your own lot are read in a minute, from its address.
Every question a certifier asks is on the New South Wales page.
Changes on the way
Rule changes announced for Snowy Monaro Regional, for New South Wales and for the whole country, the state and national lines in full on the New South Wales page, each with the page that says so and the day we read it.
In the next 90 days
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Codes SEPP and the complying development variations pathway
Source planningportal.nsw.gov.au, read
Later
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National Construction Code 2025
Source nsw.gov.au, read
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ABCB Housing Provisions 2025 (with NCC 2025)
Source abcb.gov.au, read
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AS 1926.1:2024 Swimming pool safety barriers
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Housing Provisions Part 10.8
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Housing Provisions Part 9.2
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Volume Two Part H6, Specification 42 and Housing Provisions Section 13
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Volume Two Part H8
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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National Construction Code, residential pause
Source treasury.gov.au, read
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National Construction Code, next edition
Source abcb.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Building (Approvals and Practitioners) Act 2026
Source nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2026
Source rfs.nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Standard and model conditions of consent (explanation of intended effect)
Source planningportal.nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Statewide low rise housing code and targeted assessment (discussion paper)
Source planningportal.nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
AS 3959:2018 Construction of buildings in bushfire prone areas
Source store.standards.org.au, read
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No date yet
AS 4678-2002 Earth retaining structures
Source store.standards.org.au, read
What we changed for Snowy Monaro Regional
The rules we hold for Snowy Monaro Regional, each brought up to date from the page it names, newest first. The summary above reads from them.
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Council rules
Read from snowymonaro.nsw.gov.au
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Council rules
Read from snowymonaro.nsw.gov.au
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Council rules
Read from snowymonaro.nsw.gov.au
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Council rules
Read from snowymonaro.nsw.gov.au
Council notices
No story for Snowy Monaro Regional yet.
The sources we read for Snowy Monaro Regional
4 sources read for Snowy Monaro Regional, the newest on , each below with the day it was last read.
Planning schemes and codes
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Bombala Development Control Plan 2012
No change
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Jindabyne Development Control Plan 2024
No change
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RapidSiteplan is design software: you confirm details, measure on site and your certifier or council makes the approval decision. The rule above is general information, not building or legal advice. Boundaries shown are indicative, a surveyor is recommended where exact positions matter.
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