Demolition Tempe: Flood-Aware, and the Right Inner West DCP

Which DCP, and the Cooks River flood factor

When the former Marrickville, Leichhardt and Ashfield councils merged, the Inner West consolidated its Local Environmental Plan into a single instrument, the Inner West LEP 2022, but kept the separate development control plans of the former council areas. Tempe is in the former Marrickville area, so the Marrickville development control plan is the one that governs the detail here, a different answer from suburbs in the former Leichhardt or Ashfield areas. On top of that, Tempe’s low-lying land near the Cooks River can carry flood-related controls that affect how a demolition and the works around it are assessed. Applying the correct DCP and checking for flood controls is not a technicality; it is what keeps a Tempe job assessed rather than returned. The section 10.7 planning certificate confirms the controls for your parcel, and we review it as part of scoping the work.

Tempe’s industrial pockets bring their own considerations too, and we handle both the light-industrial and commercial demolition and the residential work, quoting for the specific site in front of us.

What we clear in Tempe

• Full house demolition and knockdown-rebuild site preparation
• Light-industrial and commercial demolition and strip-out
• Partial and internal demolition, single-wall removals
• Shed, garage and outbuilding removal
• Site clearing, bulk excavation and slab removal

On tight, low-lying or industrial sites we use hand-demolition and non-destructive digging where machinery cannot safely reach, and we notify neighbours before we begin.