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Bellingen Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Bellingen Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
1.4% of Bellingen Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
18 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,173 ha1.4%
- R1 General Residential821 ha0.5%
- R5 Large Lot Residential1,352 ha0.8%
Employment and mixed use95.4 haunder 0.1%
- E1 Local Centre23.3 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial72.1 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose160 haunder 0.1%
- SP1 Special Activities24.7 haunder 0.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure136 haunder 0.1%
Recreation235 ha0.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation211 ha0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation23.8 haunder 0.1%
Rural84,057 ha52%
- RU1 Primary Production26,392 ha16%
- RU2 Rural Landscape21,596 ha13%
- RU3 Forestry34,555 ha22%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots1,514 ha0.9%
Conservation72,624 ha45%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves52,229 ha33%
- C2 Environmental Conservation347 ha0.2%
- C3 Environmental Management10,572 ha6.6%
- C4 Environmental Living9,476 ha5.9%
Waterways922 ha0.6%
- W1 Natural Waterways189 ha0.1%
- W2 Recreational Waterways733 ha0.5%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Bellingen
- Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Bellingen’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 524 Oct 2025
- Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 416 May 2025
- Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 31 Nov 2024
- Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 215 Dec 2023
- Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 121 Apr 2023
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 Bellingen 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.