14 Bathurst Place, Macquarie
RZ1: SUBURBAN · 1,635 m²
The biggest block here by a wide margin, and the frontage is twelve point eight metres — which is the entire story.
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1,635 m² on RZ1 in Macquarie — the biggest block in this group, and quite possibly the one that takes the most work.
The frontage is 12.8 metres. On a block of this size that means a battleaxe or something very like one: the land sits behind the frontage rather than beside it, so access, manoeuvring and a driveway eat into area that looks perfectly developable on a plan. Plot ratio gives 817 m² of gross floor area, which is generous, and none of it helps if the dwellings cannot be reached.
The statutory numbers are comparatively mild — $48,875 payable at two dwellings, $82,750 at three, on an unimproved value of $937,000. Only Rivett is cheaper in this group.
So this is the block where the schedule is the easy part and the site is the hard part. Frontage, fall across the site and the shape of the access handle will decide it, and not one of those is in the determination. Worth walking before modelling.
The numbers
as at 1 September 2026Lease Variation Charge DI2026-142
| Dwellings | LVC payable | Per added dwelling |
|---|---|---|
| 2 the scheme reviewed | $48,875 | $48,875 |
| 3 | $82,750 | $41,375 |
| 4 | $112,875 | $37,625 |
Missing Middle 50% remission applied. Eligibility turns on facts about the applicant as well as the block and must be confirmed with the ACT Revenue Office.
No view on the asking price here. What a block is worth depends on what you would build and what it costs you to build it — run it with your own numbers and the answer is yours rather than ours.
What has not been checked
These were not assessed. Their absence from the list above is not evidence of their absence from the site.
- Contaminated land register
- Airport noise contours
- Registered easements and rights of way can end a project
- Sewer and water mains — build-over
- Crown lease purpose clause can end a project
- Concessional lease status can end a project
- Registered and regulated trees can end a project
- Ground conditions and geotechnical risk
- Solar access and overshadowing
- Third-party objection and ACAT appeal
Read from the block on 1 September 2026 and not changed since. Indicative screening, not a valuation or a feasibility study.
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Before any of this matters, the site has to work
The licence, the charge and the planning pathway are all downstream of one question: is the block worth developing at all? Put an ACT address in and get the zone, the unimproved value, the Lease Variation Charge at two, three or four dwellings, and a verdict on the asking price.
Figures as at 1 September 2026; page last reviewed 1 September 2026. Every figure here should be verified against the current instrument. This is a write-up of a block, not advice about a purchase; we are not connected with the seller or the agent, and nothing here is paid for. See how these are written, and how to correct one.
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