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Penrith City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Penrith City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
14% of Penrith City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Penrith Local Environmental Plan 2010 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
45 zones and the land each covers
Residential5,724 ha14%
- R Residential60.2 ha0.1%
- R1 General Residential393 ha0.9%
- R2 Low Density Residential4,303 ha10%
- R3 Medium Density Residential624 ha1.5%
- R4 High Density Residential199 ha0.5%
- R5 Large Lot Residential146 ha0.3%
Employment and mixed use4,514 ha11%
- E1 Local Centre66.2 ha0.2%
- E2 Commercial Centre28.7 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support120 ha0.3%
- E4 General Industrial884 ha2.1%
- EM Employment12.6 haunder 0.1%
- ENT Enterprise1,428 ha3.4%
- EP Employment46.1 ha0.1%
- IN1 General Industrial1,617 ha3.8%
- MU Mixed Use200 ha0.5%
- MU1 Mixed Use111 ha0.3%
Special purpose2,258 ha5.3%
- DR Drainage18.6 haunder 0.1%
- RW Road and Road Widening5.4 haunder 0.1%
- SP1 Special Activities354 ha0.8%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,651 ha3.9%
- SP3 Tourist95.2 ha0.2%
- SP4 Enterprise72.7 ha0.2%
- T Tourism60.5 ha0.1%
Recreation3,607 ha8.5%
- ENZ Environment and Recreation849 ha2%
- P Parkland121 ha0.3%
- RE1 Public Recreation1,715 ha4.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation304 ha0.7%
- RO Regional Open Space48 ha0.1%
- RP Regional Park570 ha1.4%
Rural9,879 ha23%
- AGB Agribusiness224 ha0.5%
- RU1 Primary Production1,224 ha2.9%
- RU2 Rural Landscape1,709 ha4%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots6,560 ha16%
- RU5 Village162 ha0.4%
Conservation11,160 ha26%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves1,878 ha4.4%
- C2 Environmental Conservation4,372 ha10%
- C3 Environmental Management3,273 ha7.8%
- C4 Environmental Living1,339 ha3.2%
- E Environment298 ha0.7%
Waterways303 ha0.7%
- W Waterway79.1 ha0.2%
- W1 Natural Waterways124 ha0.3%
- W2 Recreational Waterways101 ha0.2%
Other4,776 ha11%
- DM Deferred Matter3,142 ha7.4%
- U Unzoned1,274 ha3%
- UR Urban360 ha0.9%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Penrith
- Penrith Local Environmental Plan 2010The council's local environmental plan82%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Western Parkland City) 2021A State planning policy13%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) 2021A State planning policy4.6%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Penrith’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Penrith Local Environmental Plan 2010 — Map Amendment No 925 Sept 2026
- Penrith Local Environmental Plan (Industry and Employment) (Map Amendment No 5)21 Feb 2025
- Penrith Local Environmental Plan (Industry and Employment) (Map Amendment No 3)6 Dec 2024
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) Amendment (Western Sydney Employment Area) 20248 Nov 2024
- Penrith Local Environmental Plan (Precincts – Western Parkland City) (Map Amendment No 3)28 June 2024
- Penrith Local Environmental Plan (Industry and Employment) (Map Amendment No 4)31 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 Penrith City 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.