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Bayside Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Bayside Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
39% of Bayside Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
25 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,239 ha39%
- R2 Low Density Residential1,694 ha30%
- R3 Medium Density Residential357 ha6.3%
- R4 High Density Residential187 ha3.3%
Employment and mixed use691 ha12%
- E1 Local Centre64.6 ha1.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre9.8 ha0.2%
- E3 Productivity Support112 ha2%
- E4 General Industrial89.7 ha1.6%
- IN1 General Industrial290 ha5.1%
- IN2 Light Industrial3.4 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use122 ha2.1%
Special purpose1,716 ha30%
- SP1 Special Activities548 ha9.6%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,140 ha20%
- SP3 Tourist1.6 haunder 0.1%
- SP4 Enterprise14.4 ha0.3%
- SUS Special Uses12.1 ha0.2%
Recreation481 ha8.4%
- OSP Open Space61.1 ha1.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation409 ha7.2%
- RE2 Private Recreation10.5 ha0.2%
Rural10.7 ha0.2%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots10.7 ha0.2%
Conservation6.9 ha0.1%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves1.8 haunder 0.1%
- C2 Environmental Conservation5.1 haunder 0.1%
Waterways469 ha8.2%
- W1 Natural Waterways4.3 haunder 0.1%
- W2 Recreational Waterways268 ha4.7%
- W3 Working Waterways196 ha3.4%
Other95.9 ha1.7%
- UL Unzoned Land95.9 ha1.7%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Bayside
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021The council's local environmental plan87%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021A State planning policy12%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) 2021A State planning policy1.3%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Bayside’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 — Map Amendment No 920 Mar 2026
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 — Map Amendment No 625 July 2025
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 — Amendment No 69 May 2025
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 (Amendment No 6)9 May 2025
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 — Amendment No 515 Nov 2024
- Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 — Map Amendment No 56 Sept 2024
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
How the system works. How land is rezoned · Transport-oriented precincts · All guides →
How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Bayside 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.