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Byron Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Byron Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
4.9% of Byron Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
23 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,770 ha4.9%
- R1 General Residential4.2 haunder 0.1%
- R2 Low Density Residential1,082 ha1.9%
- R3 Medium Density Residential61.9 ha0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential1,622 ha2.9%
Employment and mixed use177 ha0.3%
- E1 Local Centre55.3 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support5.8 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial95.6 ha0.2%
- MU1 Mixed Use20.6 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose616 ha1.1%
- SP1 Special Activities48.3 haunder 0.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure520 ha0.9%
- SP3 Tourist47.9 haunder 0.1%
Recreation418 ha0.7%
- RE1 Public Recreation272 ha0.5%
- RE2 Private Recreation145 ha0.3%
Rural34,531 ha61%
- RU1 Primary Production12,605 ha22%
- RU2 Rural Landscape21,875 ha39%
- RU5 Village50.9 haunder 0.1%
Conservation15,238 ha27%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves6,627 ha12%
- C2 Environmental Conservation7,031 ha12%
- C3 Environmental Management1,569 ha2.8%
- C4 Environmental Living10.6 haunder 0.1%
Waterways313 ha0.6%
- W1 Natural Waterways285 ha0.5%
- W2 Recreational Waterways28.2 haunder 0.1%
Other2,688 ha4.7%
- DM Deferred Matter2,688 ha4.7%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Byron
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Byron’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 1221 Aug 2026
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 1116 Jan 2026
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 1026 Sept 2025
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Amendment No 4730 May 2025
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 823 May 2025
- Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 99 May 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
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How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Byron 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.