Design guides for low-rise housing diversity
- Apartment Design Guide
- Better apartments
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- Boarding houses and co‑living housing
- Build-to-rent housing
- Caravan parks, manufactured home estates and moveable dwellings
- Group homes
- In-fill affordable housing
- Retention of existing affordable housing
- Secondary dwellings
- Seniors housing
- Social and affordable housing
- Supportive accommodation and temporary housing
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- Bayside Council’s housing snapshot
- Blacktown Council’s housing snapshot
- Blue Mountains Council’s housing snapshot
- Burwood Council’s housing snapshot
- Camden Council’s housing snapshot
- Campbelltown Council’s housing snapshot
- Canada Bay Council’s housing snapshot
- Canterbury-Bankstown Council’s housing snapshot
- Central Coast Council’s housing snapshot
- Cessnock Council’s housing snapshot
- Cumberland Council’s housing snapshot
- Fairfield Council’s housing snapshot
- Frequently asked questions
- Georges River Council’s housing snapshot
- Hawkesbury Council’s housing snapshot
- Hornsby Council’s housing snapshot
- How we developed the targets
- Hunters Hill Council’s housing snapshot
- Inner West Council’s housing snapshot
- Kiama Council’s housing snapshot
- Ku-ring-gai Council’s housing snapshot
- Lake Macquarie Council’s housing snapshot
- Lane Cove Council’s housing snapshot
- Liverpool Council’s housing snapshot
- Maitland Council’s housing snapshot
- Mosman Council’s housing snapshot
- Newcastle Council’s housing snapshot
- North Sydney Council’s housing snapshot
- Northern Beaches Council’s housing snapshot
- Parramatta Council’s housing snapshot
- Penrith Council’s housing snapshot
- Port Stephens Council’s housing snapshot
- Randwick Council’s housing snapshot
- Ryde Council’s housing snapshot
- Shellharbour Council’s housing snapshot
- Shoalhaven Council’s housing snapshot
- Strathfield Council’s housing snapshot
- Sutherland Council’s housing snapshot
- Sydney Council’s housing snapshot
- The Hills Council’s housing snapshot
- Waverley Council’s housing snapshot
- Willoughby Council’s housing snapshot
- Wollondilly Council’s housing snapshot
- Wollongong Council’s housing snapshot
- Woollahra Council’s housing snapshot
- Inland Code
- Social housing
Design guide for complying development
The Low-Rise Housing Diversity Code is supported by the Low-Rise Housing Diversity Design Guide for complying development (PDF, 14.4 MB).
We developed this guide with the NSW Government Architect in close consultation with councils, industry and the community. It will ensure a consistent approach to the design and delivery of quality dual occupancies, manor houses and terraces.
The guide aims to improve design by focusing on factors such as layout, landscaping, private open space, light, natural ventilation and privacy.
Design guide for development applications
Councils with local environmental plans that permit multi-dwelling housing are now accepting development applications (DAs) for manor houses and terraces.
The department has prepared a Low-Rise Housing Diversity Design Guide for development applications (PDF, 16.4 MB) to help councils assess these DAs until they develop their own development control plans. The guide equips councils with best-practice controls and design standards to ensure developments are well designed and fit into the character of the area.
Councils can still access the superseded Low-Rise Medium Density Design Guide for development applications (PDF, 11.4 MB).
We have also released the Low-Rise Medium Density Design Guide for Development Applications planning circular (PDF, 128 KB) to guide councils, applicants and practitioners on how and where the design guide applies.
Read the guide for development applications
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