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Landscape gardening

Relevant rules in the Regulation:

Schedule 1, Part 1.4, Division 1.4.9, Section 1.138.

Examples of landscape gardening include:

planting
establishing garden beds
paving
ground treatments
mulching
topsoiling, and
ground surface regrading.

It doesn't include retaining walls, ponds, pools or fences.

Landscape gardening doesn’t need DA approval if:

it's on land leased for residential purposes or it's for prescribed landscaping (even if the land is leased for residential purposes)
it doesn't change the public's existing access to the access way, footpath or bicycle path, and
it meets the relevant general exemption criteria, except criterion 1 if there is no structure built or installed.

Also see: landscape gardening BA exemptions.

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