70 Longstaff Street, Lyneham
RZ1: SUBURBAN · 580 m²
580 m² on RZ1 in Lyneham. The charge is $97,875, but the block is small enough that the charge is not what decides it.
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Lyneham is a suburb where infill arithmetic usually works, and this is the block where the site itself does most of the arguing.
580 m² is small. Plot ratio at 0.5 gives 290 m² of gross floor area across the whole site, and two dwellings inside 290 m² is two small dwellings, not two houses. Nineteen metres of frontage compounds it. None of that is a prohibition and none of it appears anywhere in the charge, which is exactly why it is worth saying before the numbers rather than after them.
The charge is $97,875 payable, halved from a codified $195,750 — Lyneham is one of the expensive ones, second in this group only to Red Hill. Unimproved value is $873,000.
So the question here is not really the charge. It is whether two dwellings inside 290 m² of floor area, on a nineteen-metre frontage, are worth more between them than one house on 580 m² in Lyneham. That is a build-cost and end-value question, and it is the one to take into the calculator.
The numbers
as at 1 September 2026Lease Variation Charge DI2026-142
| Dwellings | LVC payable | Per added dwelling |
|---|---|---|
| 2 the scheme reviewed | $97,875 | $97,875 |
| 3 | $132,500 | $66,250 |
| 4 | $181,875 | $60,625 |
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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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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