Exhibition Item

On 18 November 2025, Council resolved to place the draft Anambah Development Control Plan (DCP) on public exhibition to inform the future development of the Anambah Urban Release Area (URA).

The Anambah URA is located off Anambah Road, north of Wyndella Estate. It covers around 500 hectares and is planned to accommodate approximately 10,500 people in 4,200 dwellings. Zoned for urban purposes in 2020, the URA includes residential, environmental living, recreational and commercial areas.

The draft DCP updates the Maitland DCP 2011 and sets clear rules and guidance for how the Anambah URA will grow over time.

To address the broad site characteristics and support the intended future urban outcomes, the draft DCP establishes development guidelines and controls for the:

• Protection of environmentally sensitive areas, including steep land, flood-affected land, and visually sensitive areas.
• Stormwater and water quality management controls.
• Mitigation of natural and environmental hazards, including bushfire risk, Endangered Ecological Communities (EECs), and drainage lines.
• Measures to achieve an appropriate residential scale and density.
• Management of access and traffic through a transport movement hierarchy, showing road designs, routes, and connections to create a simple and safe movement system for private vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists.
• Provision of suitably located public facilities, services, and passive and active open space.
• Site landscaping requirements to work towards increasing tree canopy to 30% in accordance with the Maitland Environmental Sustainability Strategy.

Council invites the community and stakeholders to review the proposed DCP and make a submission by 5pm on 19 December 2025.