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Central Coast Council

A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Central Coast Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.

6.4% of Central Coast Council is zoned residential.

Zoned by the Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022

Zoning map

Every zone, from NSW’s own map

Zoning map of Central Coast Council, coloured by NSW's zones — the largest: C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves, RU3 Forestry, RU1 Primary Production.
NSW’s Land Zoning Map for Central Coast, in NSW’s own colours. Open it full size ↗

31 zones and the land each covers

Residential11,773 ha6.4%
  • R1 General Residential2,289 ha1.2%
  • R2 Low Density Residential8,790 ha4.8%
  • R3 Medium Density Residential195 ha0.1%
  • R5 Large Lot Residential499 ha0.3%
Employment and mixed use2,636 ha1.4%
  • B3 Commercial Core14.1 haunder 0.1%
  • B4 Mixed Use60.6 haunder 0.1%
  • B6 Enterprise Corridor20.1 haunder 0.1%
  • E1 Local Centre222 ha0.1%
  • E2 Commercial Centre37 haunder 0.1%
  • E3 Productivity Support218 ha0.1%
  • E4 General Industrial2,001 ha1.1%
  • MU1 Mixed Use63.4 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose17,529 ha9.5%
  • SP1 Special Activities279 ha0.2%
  • SP2 Infrastructure17,097 ha9.3%
  • SP3 Tourist64.4 haunder 0.1%
  • SP4 Enterprise89 haunder 0.1%
Recreation5,514 ha3%
  • RE1 Public Recreation4,997 ha2.7%
  • RE2 Private Recreation517 ha0.3%
Rural46,651 ha25%
  • RU1 Primary Production19,212 ha10%
  • RU2 Rural Landscape3,128 ha1.7%
  • RU3 Forestry21,870 ha12%
  • RU5 Village105 haunder 0.1%
  • RU6 Transition2,337 ha1.3%
Conservation83,546 ha45%
  • C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves47,019 ha25%
  • C2 Environmental Conservation17,386 ha9.4%
  • C3 Environmental Management15,318 ha8.3%
  • C4 Environmental Living3,822 ha2.1%
Waterways16,911 ha9.2%
  • W1 Natural Waterways406 ha0.2%
  • W2 Recreational Waterways16,503 ha8.9%
  • W4 Working Waterfront1.2 haunder 0.1%
Other64.8 haunder 0.1%
  • UL Unzoned Land64.8 haunder 0.1%

Where it comes from

The plans that zone Central Coast

  • Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022The council's local environmental plan100%
  • State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy0.2%

A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Central Coast’s planning proposals.

The latest changes NSW published to the map

  • Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 1715 May 2026
  • Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 1616 Jan 2026
  • Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 143 Oct 2025
  • Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Amendment No 98 Aug 2025
  • Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 131 Aug 2025
  • State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 20212 Dec 2021

Every lot’s controls

Across NSW, 0.7% of the zoned land is residential.

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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

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How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Central Coast 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.