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Forbes Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Forbes Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
0.5% of Forbes Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Forbes Local Environmental Plan 2013
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
16 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,329 ha0.5%
- R1 General Residential616 ha0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential1,713 ha0.4%
Employment and mixed use636 ha0.1%
- E1 Local Centre40.9 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support103 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial490 ha0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use2.4 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose1,654 ha0.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,644 ha0.3%
- SP3 Tourist9.6 haunder 0.1%
Recreation230 haunder 0.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation110 haunder 0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation120 haunder 0.1%
Rural464,653 ha99%
- RU1 Primary Production455,999 ha97%
- RU3 Forestry8,436 ha1.8%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots214 haunder 0.1%
- RU5 Village3.9 haunder 0.1%
Conservation1,656 ha0.4%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves1,623 ha0.3%
- C3 Environmental Management33.5 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Forbes
- Forbes Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Forbes’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Forbes Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 36 Feb 2026
- Forbes Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 218 July 2025
- Forbes Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Amendment No 1621 Mar 2025
- Forbes Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 17 Feb 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 Forbes 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.