Housing & planning · Ku-ring-gai Council
Wahroonga alterations approved at 16 Illoura Avenue with height variation
The Ku-ring-gai Local Planning Panel unanimously granted consent for alterations and additions, with consent lapsing if approved works do not physically commence within five years of the Notice of Determination.
Reporting from public council minutes. How this article was prepared
Alterations and additions at 16 Illoura Avenue, Wahroonga can proceed under a unanimous Ku-ring-gai Local Planning Panel consent that varies the maximum building-height standard in the Ku-ring-gai Local Environmental Plan 2015.
The Panel accepted a Clause 4.6 request concerning the height control in Clause 4.3. Its resolution states that strict compliance was unreasonable or unnecessary in the circumstances and that sufficient environmental planning grounds justified the variation.
Consent was granted subject to conditions in Council’s Development Assessment Report. The approval will lapse if the works are not physically commenced within five years of the Notice of Determination, rather than five years from the Panel’s 21 September 2026 decision date.
One submission was received during notification under Ku-ring-gai Council’s Community Participation Plan and was considered as part of the determination. The minutes do not reproduce the assessment report, so they do not specify the approved height, the detailed conditions or other technical requirements.
The Panel’s recorded reason was that it concurred with the recommendation in the Development Assessment Report and the conditions of consent.
What deserves a closer look
The minutes establish the consent and its height-standard variation but do not reproduce the Development Assessment Report or the conditions attached to the approval.
The commencement deadline cannot be converted into a calendar date because the minutes do not give the date of the Notice of Determination.
Questions for follow-up reporting
What specific conditions apply to the consent, and what height was approved in the Development Assessment Report or Notice of Determination?
On what date was the Notice of Determination issued?
What alterations and additions are shown in the approved plans?
What happens next
Any works would need to comply with the conditions attached to the development consent.
If approved works are not physically commenced within five years of the date of the Notice of Determination, the consent will lapse.
Check the record
These passages were matched to the source text. Read them in context in the original minutes.
The alterations and additions application at 16 Illoura Avenue, Wahroonga was listed as item KLPP35, file EDA0305/26.
Date of Decision: 21 September 2026 Voting: Unanimous KLPP35 16 Illoura Avenue, Wahroonga - Alterations and additions File: EDA0305/26 Vide: GB.2 Alterations and additions THE PANEL RESOLVED: A.
KLPP35, item heading and file reference
Open original minutes ↗The Panel found the Clause 4.6 request met the relevant requirements and justified varying the maximum building-height standard in Clause 4.3 of KLEP 2015.
The Ku-ring-gai Local Planning Panel, exercising the functions of Ku-ring-gai Council, as the consent authority, pursuant to Section 4.16 of the Environment Planning and Assessment Act 1979, is satisfied that the request submitted under Clause 4.6 to vary the maximum Height of Buildings development standard in Clause 4.3 of KLEP 2015 has met the requirements of Clause 4.6(3). The Panel is also of the opinion that strict compliance with the development standard is unreasonable or unnecessary in the circumstances of the case and that there are sufficient environmental planning grounds to justify the variation to the development standard.
KLPP35, resolution A
Open original minutes ↗Development consent was granted for alterations and additions at 16 Illoura Avenue, Wahroonga, subject to conditions in the Development Assessment Report, with a five-year physical-commencement lapse period running from the date of the Notice of Determination.
B. The Ku-ring-gai Local Planning Panel, exercising the functions of Ku-ring-gai Council, as the consent authority, pursuant to Section 4.16 of the Environment Planning and Assessment Act 1979, being satisfied that the proposed development would be in the public interest, granted development consent to eDA0305/26 for alterations and additions at No. 16 Illoura Avenue, Wahroonga, subject to conditions in the Development Assessment Report. Pursuant to Section 4.53 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, this consent lapses if the approved works are not physically commenced within five years of the date of the Notice of Determination.
KLPP35, resolution B
Open original minutes ↗The Panel's recorded reason was that it concurred with the recommendation in the Development Assessment Report and the conditions of consent.
Minute KU-RING-GAI COUNCIL Page 20260921-KLPP-Mins-2026/290583 /3 C. Date of Decision: 21 September 2026 D. Reason for the Decision: The Panel concurred with the recommendation in Council's Development Assessment Report and the conditions of consent.
KLPP35, resolution C and D
Open original minutes ↗One submission was received through notification under the Community Participation Plan and was considered as part of the determination.
E. How community views were taken into consideration: The views of the community were requested by way of notification of the application in accordance with Council's Community Participation Plan and there was one submission received which was considered as part of this determination.
KLPP35, resolution E
Open original minutes ↗The decision date was 21 September 2026 and the vote was recorded as unanimous.
Minute KU-RING-GAI COUNCIL Page 20260921-KLPP-Mins-2026/290583 /3 C. Date of Decision: 21 September 2026 D. Reason for the Decision: The Panel concurred with the recommendation in Council's Development Assessment Report and the conditions of consent. E. How community views were taken into consideration: The views of the community were requested by way of notification of the application in accordance with Council's Community Participation Plan and there was one submission received which was considered as part of this determination. Voting: Unanimous KLPP36 5-7 Duff Street, Turramurra - Demolition of existing structures and construction of a residential flat building with basement car parking, landscaping and associated works File: EDA0131/26 Vide: GB.3 Demolition of existing structures and construction of a residential flat building with basement car parking, landscaping and associated works THE PANEL RESOLVED: A.
KLPP35, resolution C and voting
Open original minutes ↗Source record
Reported from the confirmed public minutes of the Ku-ring-gai Local Planning Panel meeting held on 21 September 2026, published by Ku-ring-gai Council.
Key facts from the minutes
- Development consent was granted for alterations and additions at 16 Illoura Avenue, Wahroonga.
- The Panel approved a Clause 4.6 variation to the maximum Height of Buildings standard in Clause 4.3 of KLEP 2015.
- The consent is subject to conditions in the Development Assessment Report.
- The consent lapses if approved works are not physically commenced within five years of the Notice of Determination.
- One submission was received through the notification process and considered by the Panel; the decision was recorded as unanimous.
Why it matters
- The consent allows alterations and additions at a Wahroonga property subject to a variation of the area’s maximum building-height standard and conditions not set out in the minutes. The works must physically commence within five years of the Notice of Determination or the consent will lapse.