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Blacktown City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Blacktown City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
45% of Blacktown City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Blacktown Local Environmental Plan 2015 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
33 zones and the land each covers
Residential9,797 ha45%
- R1 General Residential28.6 ha0.1%
- R2 Low Density Residential8,591 ha40%
- R3 Medium Density Residential1,048 ha4.8%
- R4 High Density Residential130 ha0.6%
Employment and mixed use3,027 ha14%
- B1 Neighbourhood Centre5.2 haunder 0.1%
- B2 Local Centre35.9 ha0.2%
- B4 Mixed Use18.9 haunder 0.1%
- B5 Business Development42.5 ha0.2%
- B6 Enterprise Corridor5.5 haunder 0.1%
- B7 Business Park90.9 ha0.4%
- E1 Local Centre92.8 ha0.4%
- E2 Commercial Centre7.1 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support328 ha1.5%
- E4 General Industrial924 ha4.3%
- EM Employment21.5 haunder 0.1%
- IN1 General Industrial1,179 ha5.4%
- IN2 Light Industrial176 ha0.8%
- MU1 Mixed Use99.6 ha0.5%
Special purpose2,920 ha13%
- RW Road and Road Widening7.1 haunder 0.1%
- SP1 Special Activities230 ha1.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure2,683 ha12%
Recreation2,276 ha10%
- PRR Public Recreation - Regional189 ha0.9%
- RE1 Public Recreation1,543 ha7.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation210 ha1%
- RP Regional Park334 ha1.5%
Rural2,060 ha9.5%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots1,954 ha9%
- RU6 Transition106 ha0.5%
Conservation1,455 ha6.7%
- C2 Environmental Conservation678 ha3.1%
- C3 Environmental Management128 ha0.6%
- C4 Environmental Living39 ha0.2%
- ECO Environmental Conservation610 ha2.8%
Waterways51.2 ha0.2%
- W1 Natural Waterways51.2 ha0.2%
Other161 ha0.7%
- UR Urban161 ha0.7%
- No zone on NSW’s map2,297 ha
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Blacktown
- Blacktown Local Environmental Plan 2015The council's local environmental plan68%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Central River City) 2021A State planning policy25%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) 2021A State planning policy4.9%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Western Parkland City) 2021A State planning policy2.4%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Blacktown’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Blacktown Local Environmental Plan (Precincts—Central River City) (Map Amendment No 13)2 Oct 2026
- Blacktown Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Amendment No 3924 July 2026
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Riverstone Town Centre) 202617 Apr 2026
- Blacktown Local Environmental Plan (Precincts – Central River City) (Map Amendment No 12)2 Apr 2026
- Blacktown Local Environmental Plan (Precincts - Central River City) (Map Amendment No 11)28 Nov 2025
- Blacktown Local Environmental Plan (Precincts—Central River City) (Map Amendment No 10)7 Nov 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
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 Blacktown City 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.