Project updates


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Council resolved at its meeting on the 25 October, 2016 (C1016 Item 13) to publicly exhibit a planning proposal that seeks to change Leichhardt Local Environmental Plan 2013 (LEP 2013) as follows:

  • increase the sites Floor Space Ratio (FSR) from 0.5:1 to 1:1. Floor Space Ratio is the ratio of a building’s overall floor area to the size of its site.
  • allow ‘restaurants or cafés’ and ‘takeaway food and drink premises’ as additional permitted uses on the site with the floor space of such uses restricted to 50 sqm in size
  • amend the FSR and additional permitted uses LEP 2013 maps accordingly

View the information and have your say

Hard copies of these documents are also available at:

  • Council’s Administrative Centre: 7-15 Wetherill Street Leichhardt
  • Leichhardt Library: Piazza Level, Italian Forum, 23 Norton Street, Leichhardt
  • Balmain Library: 370 Darling Street, Balmain

You can also have your say by mail - addressed to Interim General Manager, Inner West Council, PO Box 45, Leichhardt NSW 2040.

Submissions close at 5pm on Tuesday 23 May 2017.