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North Sydney Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of North Sydney Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
58% of North Sydney Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the North Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2013
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
15 zones and the land each covers
Residential605 ha58%
- R2 Low Density Residential287 ha27%
- R3 Medium Density Residential128 ha12%
- R4 High Density Residential191 ha18%
Employment and mixed use94.3 ha9%
- E1 Local Centre9.8 ha0.9%
- E2 Commercial Centre19.6 ha1.9%
- E3 Productivity Support3.7 ha0.4%
- MU1 Mixed Use61.2 ha5.8%
Special purpose149 ha14%
- SP1 Special Activities3.9 ha0.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure145 ha14%
Recreation110 ha10%
- RE1 Public Recreation105 ha10%
- RE2 Private Recreation4.8 ha0.5%
Conservation87.9 ha8.4%
- C2 Environmental Conservation52.1 ha5%
- C4 Environmental Living35.8 ha3.4%
Waterways3.4 ha0.3%
- W4 Working Waterfront3.4 ha0.3%
Other1.8 ha0.2%
- UL Unzoned Land1.8 ha0.2%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone North Sydney
- North Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See North Sydney’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Crows Nest Transport Oriented Development Precinct) 202427 Nov 2024
- North Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Amendment No 3630 June 2023
- North Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 121 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 North Sydney 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.