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Northern Beaches Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Northern Beaches Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
19% of Northern Beaches Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
25 zones and the land each covers
Residential5,162 ha19%
- R1 General Residential293 ha1.1%
- R2 Low Density Residential4,247 ha15%
- R3 Medium Density Residential417 ha1.5%
- R5 Large Lot Residential205 ha0.7%
Employment and mixed use415 ha1.5%
- E1 Local Centre104 ha0.4%
- E2 Commercial Centre18.4 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support43.4 ha0.2%
- E4 General Industrial212 ha0.8%
- MU1 Mixed Use37.4 ha0.1%
Special purpose1,033 ha3.7%
- SP1 Special Activities214 ha0.8%
- SP2 Infrastructure688 ha2.5%
- SP3 Tourist13.6 haunder 0.1%
- SP4 Enterprise117 ha0.4%
Recreation2,469 ha8.9%
- RE1 Public Recreation2,185 ha7.9%
- RE2 Private Recreation284 ha1%
Rural1,557 ha5.6%
- RU2 Rural Landscape720 ha2.6%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots838 ha3%
Conservation13,639 ha49%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves11,402 ha41%
- C2 Environmental Conservation920 ha3.3%
- C3 Environmental Management230 ha0.8%
- C4 Environmental Living1,087 ha3.9%
Waterways2,048 ha7.4%
- W1 Natural Waterways2,029 ha7.3%
- W2 Recreational Waterways17.7 haunder 0.1%
- W4 Working Waterfront1.5 haunder 0.1%
Other1,407 ha5.1%
- DM Deferred Matter1,407 ha5.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Northern Beaches
- Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011The council's local environmental plan55%
- Pittwater Local Environmental Plan 2014The council's local environmental plan39%
- Manly Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan5.5%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Northern Beaches’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Amendment No 308 Aug 2025
- Pittwater Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Amendment No 1317 Apr 2025
- Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011 (Map Amendment No 4)24 May 2024
- Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 321 Apr 2023
- Pittwater Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 314 Apr 2023
- Manly Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 214 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
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How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Northern Beaches 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.