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MidCoast Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of MidCoast Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
1.1% of MidCoast Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Greater Taree Local Environmental Plan 2010
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
29 zones and the land each covers
Residential10,611 ha1.1%
- R1 General Residential3,773 ha0.4%
- R2 Low Density Residential1,626 ha0.2%
- R3 Medium Density Residential156 haunder 0.1%
- R4 High Density Residential20.8 haunder 0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential5,035 ha0.5%
Employment and mixed use1,231 ha0.1%
- E1 Local Centre50.9 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre70.4 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support144 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial533 haunder 0.1%
- E5 Heavy Industrial263 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use169 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose3,080 ha0.3%
- SP1 Special Activities15.8 haunder 0.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure3,012 ha0.3%
- SP3 Tourist52.7 haunder 0.1%
Recreation1,619 ha0.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation1,061 ha0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation558 haunder 0.1%
Rural739,038 ha73%
- RU1 Primary Production411,859 ha41%
- RU2 Rural Landscape183,234 ha18%
- RU3 Forestry129,807 ha13%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots12,803 ha1.3%
- RU5 Village1,335 ha0.1%
Conservation235,725 ha23%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves182,091 ha18%
- C2 Environmental Conservation18,926 ha1.9%
- C3 Environmental Management32,170 ha3.2%
- C4 Environmental Living2,539 ha0.3%
Waterways15,271 ha1.5%
- W1 Natural Waterways1,930 ha0.2%
- W2 Recreational Waterways13,328 ha1.3%
- W3 Working Waterways3.2 haunder 0.1%
- W4 Working Waterfront10.1 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone MidCoast
- Greater Taree Local Environmental Plan 2010The council's local environmental plan37%
- Great Lakes Local Environmental Plan 2014The council's local environmental plan34%
- Gloucester Local Environmental Plan 2010The council's local environmental plan29%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See MidCoast’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Greater Taree Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 63 Oct 2025
- Greater Taree Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 53 May 2024
- Great Lakes Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 93 May 2024
- Gloucester Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 43 May 2024
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 MidCoast 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.