Upzoning check: what do the 2025 housing reforms allow on your block?
Check dual occupancy, terraces, manor houses and low-rise apartments against the NSW Low and Mid-Rise housing reforms and Transport Oriented Development precincts — from live NSW Government planning maps, with the source clause for every standard.
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What changed under the 2025 NSW housing reforms?
From early 2025, the NSW Low and Mid-Rise housing reforms under SEPP (Housing) 2021 made dual occupancies, terraces, manor houses and low-rise apartment buildings permissible with consent across many R1, R2 and R3 zoned lots that previously could not host them — subject to lot standards, exclusion mapping and heritage.
Separately, Transport Oriented Development (TOD) precincts around designated stations carry their own uplift for mid-rise apartment forms, mapped as precinct polygons on the NSW planning maps.
Whether any of this applies to a specific block depends on live mapping: the zone, the Low and Mid-Rise exclusion map, TOD precinct boundaries, dual-occupancy prohibition mapping, heritage items and conservation areas, and the lot's own area and frontage. This tool queries those layers for one address and shows each housing type's result with the clause it comes from.