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Parkes Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Parkes Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
0.6% of Parkes Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Parkes Local Environmental Plan 2012
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
14 zones and the land each covers
Residential3,508 ha0.6%
- R1 General Residential709 ha0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential2,799 ha0.5%
Employment and mixed use5,154 ha0.9%
- E1 Local Centre30.7 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial208 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use63.2 haunder 0.1%
- REZ Regional Enterprise Zone4,852 ha0.8%
Special purpose1,454 ha0.2%
- SP1 Special Activities182 haunder 0.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,272 ha0.2%
Recreation419 haunder 0.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation209 haunder 0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation210 haunder 0.1%
Rural566,426 ha95%
- RU1 Primary Production559,017 ha94%
- RU3 Forestry7,087 ha1.2%
- RU5 Village323 haunder 0.1%
Conservation19,004 ha3.2%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves19,004 ha3.2%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Parkes
- Parkes Local Environmental Plan 2012The council's local environmental plan99%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy0.8%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Parkes’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Parkes Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 118 July 2025
- Parkes Local Environmental Plan (Precincts – Regional) (Map Amendment No 1)11 July 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Use Zones) 202324 Feb 2023
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) Amendment (Activation Precincts) 202218 Feb 2022
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 Parkes 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.