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The controls are state-wide. How they get read is not.

A variation one council treats as a matter for discussion, the council next door treats as a reason for refusal. A DCP objective that is routinely traded off in one LGA is enforced to the millimetre in another. None of that is written down anywhere, and all of it decides how a project goes.

These are the councils we work in most, with the instruments currently in force in each. Verified 7 September 2026 — two of these are mid-review, which is exactly why it's worth checking rather than assuming.

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We also work across in the eastern suburbs, and take projects across regional NSW where the site warrants it.

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What local knowledge is actually worth

Three things, concretely.

  • Knowing which instrument applies today. Randwick's DCP changed in July 2026. Bayside runs a 2022 DCP but three repealed ones still govern older applications. Getting this wrong means designing to a control that no longer exists.
  • Knowing where the council's discretion sits. Which DCP controls are treated as performance objectives and which are treated as numeric standards, and which variations get referred to a local planning panel rather than determined under delegation.
  • Knowing the local quirks. Additional permitted uses mapped through Schedule 1 that never appear in the land use table. Local clauses that disapply a state standard. Zone-specific provisions that only bite on a handful of streets.

None of this replaces reading the controls for your specific site. It just means we start from the right page.

Have a site in one of these areas?

Send us the address. We'll run the controls that actually apply to it.

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