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Balranald Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Balranald Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
None of Balranald Shire Council is in a residential zone: its towns and villages are zoned RU5 Village.
Zoned by the Balranald Local Environmental Plan 2010
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
7 zones and the land each covers
Rural2,120,404 ha98%
- RU1 Primary Production2,108,638 ha97%
- RU3 Forestry10,463 ha0.5%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots862 haunder 0.1%
- RU5 Village441 haunder 0.1%
Conservation44,295 ha2%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves44,295 ha2%
Waterways3,687 ha0.2%
- W1 Natural Waterways3,664 ha0.2%
- W2 Recreational Waterways22.1 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Balranald
- Balranald Local Environmental Plan 2010The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Balranald’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Balranald Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Amendment No 11 Aug 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Planning Systems) Amendment (Aboriginal Land Council) 202216 Dec 2022
- Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Amendment (Land Use Zones) Order 20215 Nov 2021
- Balranald Local Environmental Plan 20109 July 2010
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 Balranald 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.