Engage a professional landscape architect or designer to prepare your landscape plan early.

Development of a landscape plan is an integral part of the site planning, building and engineering design and helps Council process applications more efficiently. Your key landscape principles should underpin the design and help with decision-making throughout the process. 

The landscape plan should adhere to the following specifications:

• Be drawn clearly and accurately to scale – typically 1:100, 1:200 or 1:500
• Be no larger than A3 paper size
• Include title box with drawing name, property address, date of drawing, scale and north point
• Include legend clearly identifying all information that has been shown on the plan
• Include legend to clarify graphic symbols shown on the plan, including clarification of graphic symbols
• Include notes as required to clarify information shown on the plan.

The landscape plan should show:

• Proposed buildings (showing ground floor windows and doors)
• Any other proposed structures, such as shed/pergolas
• Proposed surfaces and materials
• All features, labelled
• Proposed contours and levels.
• Proposed retaining walls, with heights, batters, materials
• Proposed vegetation (drawn at mature size)
• Utilities such as clothes lines, bin storage.
• Tree protection measures

The plant schedule must include:

• All proposed plants with both botanical and common name
• Quantity of proposed plants
• Size at time of installation: pot size for understorey planting and height for tree planting
• Typical size at maturity: height and width
• All trees proposed to be removed, with botanical and common name.

Note: Click 'View a sample landscape plan' button from the right hand toolbar to see a sample landscape plan.