Planning professionals and applicants

Planning rules can be technical and hard to understand. Find out how to interpret the Northern Territory Planning rules and meet specific requirements.

Technical notes

Technical notes provide information on where and how to access additional information to address technical requirements in the planning scheme.

• building height limits around airports
• converting a shed into a house
• develop on Aboriginal land
• cyclone, storm surge and riverine flooding building and development standards
• establishing a permitted use
• developing near Royal Darwin Hospital.

If your development is permitted, you may need a building permit if your land is within a building control area.

Read more about establishing a permitted use.

Guidance notes

Guidance notes provide information on how to interpret and apply some of the development requirements in the planning scheme:

• planning rules for private open space
• building single dwellings on small lots
• building an independent unit
• active street frontage in zone CB
• articulation for residential buildings longer than 15m
• fencing in zones MR and HR
• landscaping in zone CB
• residential plot ratio for dwellings-multiple in zones MR, HR and C
• residential setbacks in zones MR and HR.

Background documents and needs assessments

Background materials provide context to plans and policies within the NT Planning Scheme. They are listed below by region.

There are currently no documents for other regions.