November 1, 2025

The NSW Housing Pattern Book Landscape Design Guide can help you finalise your planning application and meet planning controls while increasing the value and appeal of your project. Well-designed outdoor spaces can be used to connect, relax, and entertain. It suggests ways to add thoughtful landscape designs to the low- and mid-rise patterns. This guide also makes it easier to create a landscape plan that meets council requirements, including for deep soil planting zones, permeable surfaces, and tree canopy. It provides landscape approaches for common outdoor areas in low- and mid-rise developments, such as front yards, backyards, courtyards, side passageways, rooftops and communal areas. It also provides guidance for planting on structure and in challenging microclimates.