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Blue Mountains City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Blue Mountains City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
0.7% of Blue Mountains City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Blue Mountains Local Environmental Plan 2015
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
20 zones and the land each covers
Residential958 ha0.7%
- R1 General Residential66.7 haunder 0.1%
- R2 Low Density Residential827 ha0.6%
- R3 Medium Density Residential64.4 haunder 0.1%
Employment and mixed use221 ha0.2%
- E1 Local Centre36.5 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre35.1 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support27.9 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial122 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose1,277 ha0.9%
- SP1 Special Activities1.8 haunder 0.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,259 ha0.9%
- SP3 Tourist15.5 haunder 0.1%
Recreation705 ha0.5%
- RE1 Public Recreation547 ha0.4%
- RE2 Private Recreation157 ha0.1%
Rural8,577 ha6%
- RU2 Rural Landscape2,207 ha1.5%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots6,369 ha4.4%
Conservation130,648 ha91%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves106,709 ha75%
- C2 Environmental Conservation17,824 ha12%
- C3 Environmental Management2,012 ha1.4%
- C4 Environmental Living4,103 ha2.9%
Waterways195 ha0.1%
- W1 Natural Waterways195 ha0.1%
Other645 ha0.4%
- DM Deferred Matter645 ha0.4%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Blue Mountains
- Blue Mountains Local Environmental Plan 2015The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Blue Mountains’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Blue Mountains Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Map Amendment No 110 July 2026
- Blue Mountains Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Amendment No 2124 Oct 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Use Zones) 202324 Feb 2023
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Use Zones) 202216 Dec 2022
- Blue Mountains Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Amendment No 1413 May 2022
- Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Amendment (Land Use Zones) Order 20215 Nov 2021
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 Blue Mountains 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.