A plain-English look at a recent Land and Environment Court decision about an eight-storey apartment proposal in Mosman. Watch the video Video transcript Agreed on height and FSR, and still refused. A recent Land and Environment Court decision in Mosman shows why the edge of an LMR area can matter. The plan was an eight-storey building with fourteen apartments, including three affordable units [1]. The site was in a low and mid-rise inner area, where the Housing SEPP sets a 2

A plain-English look at a recent Land and Environment Court decision about a six- to seven-storey apartment proposal in Mosman, designed on the basis that the site was in the Housing SEPP's low and mid-rise (LMR) inner area [1], [39]. Watch the video Video transcript Under the LMR rules, how you measure four hundred metres can matter. A recent Land and Environment Court decision in Mosman shows why. The proposal was a six- to seven-storey apartment building with twenty-nine d

What is an attached dwelling? In NSW planning, it's three or more homes joined by common walls, each on its own lot of land, with none above another (Standard Instrument Dictionary). Terraces are different: multi dwelling housing on one lot. Watch the video Video transcript What is an attached dwelling? It sounds like a terrace, but in NSW planning it's a different type. An attached dwelling is a building with three or more dwellings, where each is attached to another by a co