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Cessnock City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Cessnock City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
2.5% of Cessnock City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
22 zones and the land each covers
Residential4,877 ha2.5%
- R1 General Residential232 ha0.1%
- R2 Low Density Residential2,714 ha1.4%
- R3 Medium Density Residential546 ha0.3%
- R5 Large Lot Residential1,386 ha0.7%
Employment and mixed use1,755 ha0.9%
- E1 Local Centre39.3 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre20.9 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support54.4 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial1,191 ha0.6%
- E5 Heavy Industrial129 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use320 ha0.2%
Special purpose2,594 ha1.3%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,923 ha1%
- SP3 Tourist670 ha0.3%
Recreation510 ha0.3%
- RE1 Public Recreation280 ha0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation230 ha0.1%
Rural126,882 ha65%
- RU2 Rural Landscape88,152 ha45%
- RU3 Forestry24,959 ha13%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots13,269 ha6.7%
- RU5 Village502 ha0.3%
Conservation59,997 ha31%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves56,815 ha29%
- C2 Environmental Conservation2,755 ha1.4%
- C3 Environmental Management345 ha0.2%
- C4 Environmental Living81.5 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Cessnock
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Cessnock’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Amendment No 4510 Oct 2025
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Amendment No 464 July 2025
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 147 Feb 2025
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 1313 Dec 2024
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 1220 Sept 2024
- Cessnock Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 1116 Aug 2024
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 Cessnock 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.