NSW · Hunter · Regional
Lake Macquarie City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Lake Macquarie City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
13% of Lake Macquarie City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
27 zones and the land each covers
Residential9,781 ha13%
- R1 General Residential472 ha0.6%
- R2 Low Density Residential7,912 ha10%
- R3 Medium Density Residential1,389 ha1.8%
- R4 High Density Residential8.2 haunder 0.1%
Employment and mixed use1,175 ha1.6%
- E1 Local Centre152 ha0.2%
- E2 Commercial Centre90.9 ha0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support143 ha0.2%
- E4 General Industrial505 ha0.7%
- E5 Heavy Industrial97.7 ha0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use187 ha0.2%
Special purpose5,703 ha7.5%
- SP1 Special Activities509 ha0.7%
- SP2 Infrastructure3,942 ha5.2%
- SP3 Tourist111 ha0.1%
- SP4 Enterprise1,141 ha1.5%
Recreation1,965 ha2.6%
- RE1 Public Recreation1,551 ha2%
- RE2 Private Recreation413 ha0.5%
Rural11,430 ha15%
- RU2 Rural Landscape4,167 ha5.5%
- RU3 Forestry5,069 ha6.7%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots1,099 ha1.5%
- RU6 Transition1,095 ha1.4%
Conservation33,956 ha45%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves9,001 ha12%
- C2 Environmental Conservation19,980 ha26%
- C3 Environmental Management4,262 ha5.6%
- C4 Environmental Living714 ha0.9%
Waterways11,302 ha15%
- W1 Natural Waterways11,301 ha15%
- W4 Working Waterfront1.5 haunder 0.1%
Other473 ha0.6%
- DM Deferred Matter473 ha0.6%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Lake Macquarie
- Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014The council's local environmental plan98%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy1.5%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Lake Macquarie’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Transformation Precincts) 202623 Oct 2026
- Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 2018 Sept 2026
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Housing and Jobs-Lake Macquarie) 202626 June 2026
- Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Amendment No 561 Aug 2025
- Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 1917 Apr 2025
- Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 1821 Mar 2025
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
How the system works. How land is rezoned · Transport-oriented precincts · All guides →
How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Lake Macquarie City 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.