Update

At its meeting of 12 August 2024, Council resolved to approve the Woollahra Development Control Plan 2015 (Amendment No. 31) as exhibited, and the amendment took effect on 23 August 2024.

Read the Council resolution and access the Woollahra Development Control Plan 2015.

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to the public exhibition. Your participation is valuable in helping to shape Council's planning controls to ensure they reflect the views of the whole community.

You can still find everything you need to know about the exhibition on this page, including FAQs and links to important documents.

Proposed Amendments

Draft amendment to Woollahra Development Control Plan 2015 (Amendment 31), which seeks to introduce controls to reduce excavation in development applications, is on exhibition from 26 June 2024 to 23 July 2024.

The amendments to the Woollahra DCP 2015 aim to:

  • limit design elements (basement level vehicular turning areas and mechanical vehicular turntables) for dwelling houses, and
  • in certain circumstances permit mechanical parking structures to minimise excavation.

At the Environmental Planning Committee meeting of the 7 August 2023, the committee resolved:

THAT staff report to the Environmental Planning Committee on:

  • the application and effectiveness of current excavation controls, limiting excavation to methods with lower impact (contiguous piling) and consider options available to Council for charging for excavated materials; and
  • recommendations for amending controls to mitigate impacts of increasingly large DA proposals to remove rock/soil/sand and other excavation material.

The draft amendment seeks to amend Section B3.4 (Excavation) of Chapter B3 (General Development Controls) and Section E1.15 (Mechanical parking installations and paid parking stations) of Chapter E1 (Parking and Access) of the Woollahra DCP 2015, to include enhanced excavation provisions with the aim of reducing excavation in development applications.

Public Exhibition

Have your say

From 26 June 2024 - 23 July 2024 we asked for feedback on the proposed amendment. Submissions were accepted via the online submissions form below as well as by email or mail quoting SC8024 Submissions.

Submissions closed at 11.59pm, Tuesday 23 July 2024.

A hard copy of the exhibition material was made available at the Woollahra Council Customer Service area, 536 New South Head Road, Double Bay – 8.00am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday.

See privacy note under FAQs on this page.