Home builders in Cherrybrook
Hornsby Shire Council · Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013 · The Hills District Knockdown rebuild
- Council
- Hornsby Shire Council
- Planning scheme
- Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013
- Overlays mapped here
- Heritage — Item - Landscape · Heritage — Item - General · Heritage — Item - Archaeological · Heritage — Conservation Area - General
- Residential zones mapped
- R2 Low Density Residential
R4 High Density Residential - Heritage items mapped
- 17
- Minimum lot size
- 500-524 m² minimum (most common of 1 minimum-lot-size bands mapped in the suburb)
- Land reserved for acquisition
- Local Road
- Acid sulfate soils
- None mapped
Planning data from NSW ePlanning Spatial Viewer (CC BY 4.0), read 2026-09-14. Suburb-level, not a report on your block — check your address on the NSW Planning Portal.
Worth knowing before you budget
- Land reserved for acquisition
Parts of Cherrybrook are reserved for future public acquisition — local road. A reservation is mapped to specific land, so whether it touches your block has to be checked at the address.
Builders serving Cherrybrook
None yet — tell us what you're building and we'll go and find one.
What building in Cherrybrook actually involves
Cherrybrook is the outlier in this district. Its minimum lot size band is 500–524 m² — roughly a quarter of the 2000 m² minimum mapped in Glenhaven and West Pennant Hills a few kilometres away. It is a planned suburb, and the plan shows in the data.
Small lots in an acreage district
That single band is the reason Cherrybrook feels different to drive through and behaves differently to build in. Setbacks, site coverage and the realistic house footprint are all suburban rather than semi-rural, and a builder quoting from Hills acreage experience will be carrying the wrong assumptions.
Two zones with nothing between them
R2 Low Density and R4 High Density are mapped, with no R3 in between. So the suburb is mostly houses, with apartment-scale land where it is zoned for it, and very little of the medium-density middle.
Heritage and the valley edge
17 heritage records intersect Cherrybrook across four types, including archaeological items. The suburb also backs onto Berowra Valley Regional Park, and blocks on that edge carry the vegetation and bushfire questions that the interior does not.
What to ask a builder
Ask what site coverage and setbacks the design assumes on a 500 m² block, because that is the binding constraint here rather than lot area. On a valley-edge block, ask about vegetation and access before design.
Local landmarks in Cherrybrook
- Berowra Valley Regional Park
- Thomas Thompson Park
- Edward Bennett Oval
- The Lakes Reserve
- Greenway Park
- Edna Seehusen Reserve
Questions about building in Cherrybrook
What is the minimum lot size in Cherrybrook?
500–524 m², the only band mapped in the suburb. That is about a quarter of the 2000 m² minimum mapped in neighbouring Glenhaven and West Pennant Hills, and it is the main thing that makes Cherrybrook different.
What zone is Cherrybrook?
R2 Low Density Residential and R4 High Density Residential are mapped, with no R3 Medium Density in between. Houses and apartment-scale land, with little of the medium-density middle.
Is Cherrybrook heritage-constrained?
17 heritage records intersect the suburb across four types, including archaeological items and a conservation area. Not dense by Hills standards, but the archaeological category is easy to miss.
Does backing onto Berowra Valley change anything?
It can. Blocks on the park edge carry vegetation, access and bushfire questions that interior blocks do not. Those are design inputs, so raise them before a designer starts rather than after.
Can I build the same house here as in Glenhaven?
Usually not. A 500 m² block and a 2000 m² block have different setbacks, site coverage and siting constraints, and a design that works on one rarely transfers to the other without rework.