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Hornsby Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Hornsby Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
8.8% of Hornsby Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
22 zones and the land each covers
Residential4,378 ha8.8%
- R2 Low Density Residential4,206 ha8.4%
- R3 Medium Density Residential49.7 haunder 0.1%
- R4 High Density Residential122 ha0.2%
Employment and mixed use286 ha0.6%
- E1 Local Centre40 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support35 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial175 ha0.4%
- MU1 Mixed Use36.1 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose973 ha1.9%
- SP2 Infrastructure958 ha1.9%
- SP3 Tourist14.6 haunder 0.1%
Recreation2,485 ha5%
- RE1 Public Recreation2,180 ha4.4%
- RE2 Private Recreation305 ha0.6%
Rural6,353 ha13%
- RU1 Primary Production2,612 ha5.2%
- RU2 Rural Landscape1,375 ha2.8%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots2,363 ha4.7%
- RU5 Village3 haunder 0.1%
Conservation32,083 ha64%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves23,477 ha47%
- C2 Environmental Conservation656 ha1.3%
- C3 Environmental Management7,846 ha16%
- C4 Environmental Living104 ha0.2%
Waterways3,421 ha6.8%
- W1 Natural Waterways3,318 ha6.6%
- W2 Recreational Waterways101 ha0.2%
- W4 Working Waterfront1.4 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Hornsby
- Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan100%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) 2021A State planning policyunder 0.1%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Hornsby’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Cherrybrook Station Precinct) 20267 Aug 2026
- Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 726 June 2026
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Hornsby Transport Oriented Development Precinct) 202427 Nov 2024
- Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 321 Apr 2023
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) 20212 Dec 2021
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 Hornsby 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.