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Muswellbrook Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Muswellbrook Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
0.5% of Muswellbrook Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Muswellbrook Local Environmental Plan 2009 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
16 zones and the land each covers
Residential1,564 ha0.5%
- R1 General Residential1,012 ha0.3%
- R5 Large Lot Residential552 ha0.2%
Employment and mixed use262 haunder 0.1%
- E1 Local Centre4.8 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre30 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support32.8 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial194 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose11,564 ha3.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure5,853 ha1.7%
- SP4 Enterprise5,711 ha1.7%
Recreation712 ha0.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation524 ha0.2%
- RE2 Private Recreation188 haunder 0.1%
Rural131,320 ha39%
- RU1 Primary Production129,996 ha38%
- RU3 Forestry945 ha0.3%
- RU5 Village379 ha0.1%
Conservation194,492 ha57%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves144,369 ha42%
- C3 Environmental Management50,122 ha15%
Waterways787 ha0.2%
- W1 Natural Waterways787 ha0.2%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Muswellbrook
- Muswellbrook Local Environmental Plan 2009The council's local environmental plan98%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy1.7%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Muswellbrook’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Transformation Precincts) 202623 Oct 2026
- Muswellbrook Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Map Amendment No 49 June 2023
- Muswellbrook Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Map Amendment No 321 Apr 2023
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 Muswellbrook 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.