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Kempsey Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Kempsey Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
1.2% of Kempsey Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Kempsey Local Environmental Plan 2013
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
23 zones and the land each covers
Residential4,062 ha1.2%
- R1 General Residential822 ha0.2%
- R3 Medium Density Residential166 haunder 0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential3,073 ha0.9%
Employment and mixed use392 ha0.1%
- E1 Local Centre11.6 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre42.2 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support55.9 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial278 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use4.7 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose1,269 ha0.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,255 ha0.4%
- SP3 Tourist13.7 haunder 0.1%
Recreation498 ha0.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation407 ha0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation91.3 haunder 0.1%
Rural215,102 ha64%
- RU1 Primary Production49,262 ha15%
- RU2 Rural Landscape136,775 ha40%
- RU3 Forestry24,942 ha7.4%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots3,448 ha1%
- RU5 Village676 ha0.2%
Conservation110,426 ha33%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves98,289 ha29%
- C2 Environmental Conservation6,431 ha1.9%
- C3 Environmental Management5,127 ha1.5%
- C4 Environmental Living579 ha0.2%
Waterways6,343 ha1.9%
- W1 Natural Waterways4,808 ha1.4%
- W2 Recreational Waterways1,535 ha0.5%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Kempsey
- Kempsey Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Kempsey’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Kempsey Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 123 July 2026
- Kempsey Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 916 Jan 2026
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 Kempsey 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.