Hi All,
We're looking at a KDR in the Hills District. Our lot has a width of 27m and 30m depth. Given the front setback needs to be 10m and rear needs to be 4m to the ground floor it leaves us with about 16m depth for the ground floor.
Given the setback requirements, we also noticed that there is also a requirement for the maximum width of a dwelling - a snip of the requirement is below (taken from Hills DCP for Residential building).
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Given the above, I'd like to ask if anyone knows if this is the maximum width of the entire building itself? I've also noticed in the table that the heading is "Percentage of width at the building line" - key term being "building line".
If the requirement applies to the entire building, then it means we're stuck with a max width of the house allowed to be build will be approx. 20m (since the frontage is >18m the 75% rule applies), which leaves 7m side setbacks. That leaves a lot of 'empty' space to the side.
Then comes the heading of "Building Line". Does the above only apply to the part of the dwelling that is on the building line. ie. any other part of the dwelling beyond the building line can extend wider beyond the 75% rule? If this is the case, then it would make more sense to me as its more of consistent with the other houses around the area.
Hope the above makes sense.
Cheers!