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Cowra Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Cowra Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
1% of Cowra Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Cowra Local Environmental Plan 2012
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
18 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,782 ha1%
- R1 General Residential671 ha0.2%
- R2 Low Density Residential7.5 haunder 0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential2,104 ha0.7%
Employment and mixed use482 ha0.2%
- E1 Local Centre37 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support51.2 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial394 ha0.1%
Special purpose1,498 ha0.5%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,393 ha0.5%
- SP3 Tourist105 haunder 0.1%
Recreation533 ha0.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation347 ha0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation186 haunder 0.1%
Rural265,403 ha94%
- RU1 Primary Production256,357 ha91%
- RU3 Forestry8,483 ha3%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots247 haunder 0.1%
- RU5 Village315 ha0.1%
Conservation10,239 ha3.6%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves6,638 ha2.4%
- C2 Environmental Conservation2,685 ha1%
- C3 Environmental Management916 ha0.3%
Waterways17.9 haunder 0.1%
- W2 Recreational Waterways17.9 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Cowra
- Cowra Local Environmental Plan 2012The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Cowra’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Cowra Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 28 Aug 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Use Zones) 202324 Feb 2023
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 Cowra 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.