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Hilltops Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Hilltops Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
0.5% of Hilltops Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Hilltops Local Environmental Plan 2022
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
18 zones and the land each covers
Residential3,372 ha0.5%
- R1 General Residential1,693 ha0.2%
- R2 Low Density Residential223 haunder 0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential1,456 ha0.2%
Employment and mixed use520 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support89.4 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial329 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use102 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose1,842 ha0.3%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,824 ha0.3%
- SP3 Tourist17.5 haunder 0.1%
Recreation451 haunder 0.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation260 haunder 0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation191 haunder 0.1%
Rural690,461 ha97%
- RU1 Primary Production678,616 ha95%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots10,068 ha1.4%
- RU5 Village1,777 ha0.2%
Conservation15,494 ha2.2%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves7,818 ha1.1%
- C3 Environmental Management7,676 ha1.1%
Waterways2,181 ha0.3%
- W1 Natural Waterways333 haunder 0.1%
- W2 Recreational Waterways1,849 ha0.3%
Other2.1 haunder 0.1%
- DM Deferred Matter2.1 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Hilltops
- Hilltops Local Environmental Plan 2022The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Hilltops’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Hilltops Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 131 Oct 2025
- Hilltops Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Amendment No 11 Aug 2025
- Hilltops Local Environmental Plan 202223 Dec 2022
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 Hilltops 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.