Site plans for West Tamar, Tasmania: drawn in minutes
Need a site plan for a shed, patio, carport, deck, pool or granny flat in West Tamar? Site plans and assessments in minutes, drawn over the real lot.
Building in West Tamar
Residential supply and density has its own specific area plan in West Tamar, and the Windsor Community Precinct has another. Where a lot sits in one of the council's plans, or carries a site-specific qualification, those provisions can stand in for or add to the zone's figures.
Elsewhere the State Planning Provisions apply. Pools need a barrier installed by a licensed builder under a licensed building surveyor, and a deck attached to the house loses its planning exemption. TasWater consents to work near its pipes. West Tamar Council lists advertised planning applications.
What we hold for West Tamar
For West Tamar 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 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.
Last checked
How approval works in Tasmania
In Tasmania building work is sorted by risk. Low-risk work needs no permit; notifiable work needs a building surveyor's certificate of likely compliance and a notice to the council; and permit work also needs a building permit from the council as the permit authority. Planning is a separate question, usually settled first: under the planning scheme a development is exempt, permitted when it meets the acceptable solutions, or discretionary when it relies on the performance criteria, which the council decides and may advertise for comment. The building surveyor and the council read the site plan for where the structure sits against each boundary and the house. Size, siting and the codes over the lot decide both questions, as per the Tasmanian Planning Scheme and the Building Act 2016 categories of building work.
Drawing the plan
Type the property address, the lot’s real boundaries load from official land records in Tasmania, 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 building permit or a planning permit.
What a certifier in West Tamar will ask you
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 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.
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.
How high can a retaining wall and a fence go?
Each takes its own height test, and a retaining wall carrying a fence has its own approval. Both heights go on the sheet for the certifier to read together.
The figures for your own lot are read in a minute, from its address.
Every question a certifier asks is on the Tasmania page.
Changes on the way
Rule changes announced for West Tamar, for Tasmania and for the whole country, the state and national lines in full on the Tasmania page, each with the page that says so and the day we read it.
In the next 90 days
Nothing due in the next 90 days that we know of.
Later
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National Construction Code 2025
Source cbos.tas.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
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 West Tamar
The rules we hold for West Tamar, 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 services.thelist.tas.gov.au
Council notices
No story for West Tamar yet.
The sources we read for West Tamar
No page of West Tamar’s own is on our watch yet.
Follow West Tamar in a feed reader: www.rapidsiteplan.au/site-plan/west-tamar/feed.xml. Every council and state has one, listed on rule changes by council and state.
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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