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Ballina Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Ballina Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
4.2% of Ballina Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
19 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,077 ha4.2%
- R2 Low Density Residential1,132 ha2.3%
- R3 Medium Density Residential946 ha1.9%
Employment and mixed use268 ha0.5%
- E1 Local Centre37.5 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre44.4 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support28 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial152 ha0.3%
- MU1 Mixed Use6 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose168 ha0.3%
- SP2 Infrastructure146 ha0.3%
- SP4 Enterprise22.3 haunder 0.1%
Recreation404 ha0.8%
- RE1 Public Recreation355 ha0.7%
- RE2 Private Recreation48.8 haunder 0.1%
Rural29,913 ha61%
- RU1 Primary Production24,059 ha49%
- RU2 Rural Landscape5,855 ha12%
Conservation2,942 ha6%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves1,449 ha2.9%
- C2 Environmental Conservation1,397 ha2.8%
- C3 Environmental Management95.9 ha0.2%
Waterways1,726 ha3.5%
- W1 Natural Waterways1,449 ha2.9%
- W2 Recreational Waterways277 ha0.6%
Other11,806 ha24%
- DM Deferred Matter11,806 ha24%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Ballina
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Ballina’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 152 Oct 2026
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 1431 July 2026
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 1222 May 2026
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Amendment No 598 May 2026
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 1113 Mar 2026
- Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Amendment No 5729 Aug 2025
Every lot’s controls
Across NSW, 0.7% of the zoned land is residential.
Lodgd holds the zone, height limit, floor space ratio and heritage of every lot in NSW — beside the development applications, CDCs and building certificates on it, and the homes each council’s zoning already allows.
Try the free demo →Measured over the zoning maps of all 128 councils: 70,858,225 hectares zoned, 482,381 of them residential (zones R1 to R5).
Of every hundred hectares NSW’s councils have zoned, this much is zoned residential.
Elsewhere in NSW
Zoning in other councils
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How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Ballina Shire Council — the council’s own plan, and the land State planning policies zone directly — as NSW publishes it. Areas are measured from NSW’s outlines; shares are of the land NSW’s map zones, waterways included. Zoned residential means zones R1 to R5, and the older residential zones a few State policies still use.