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Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
1.9% of Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
29 zones and the land each covers
Residential6,976 ha1.9%
- R1 General Residential3,748 ha1%
- R2 Low Density Residential163 haunder 0.1%
- R3 Medium Density Residential96.3 haunder 0.1%
- R4 High Density Residential41.8 haunder 0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential2,927 ha0.8%
Employment and mixed use685 ha0.2%
- E1 Local Centre64.5 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre42.8 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support89 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial354 haunder 0.1%
- E5 Heavy Industrial80.3 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use54.9 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose1,587 ha0.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure1,479 ha0.4%
- SP3 Tourist80.5 haunder 0.1%
- SP4 Enterprise28 haunder 0.1%
Recreation793 ha0.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation514 ha0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation280 haunder 0.1%
Rural255,598 ha69%
- RU1 Primary Production62,350 ha17%
- RU2 Rural Landscape118,326 ha32%
- RU3 Forestry74,804 ha20%
- RU5 Village100 haunder 0.1%
- RU6 Transition17.7 haunder 0.1%
Conservation99,022 ha27%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves93,071 ha25%
- C2 Environmental Conservation5,316 ha1.4%
- C3 Environmental Management550 ha0.1%
- C4 Environmental Living84.6 haunder 0.1%
Waterways3,920 ha1.1%
- W1 Natural Waterways2,809 ha0.8%
- W2 Recreational Waterways1,104 ha0.3%
- W3 Working Waterwaysunder 1 haunder 0.1%
- W4 Working Waterfront7 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Port Macquarie-Hastings
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Port Macquarie-Hastings’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 1123 Oct 2026
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Amendment No 642 Oct 2026
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 1012 June 2026
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Amendment No 635 Dec 2025
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 917 Apr 2025
- Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Environmental Plan 2011 — Map Amendment No 826 Apr 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
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How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in Port Macquarie-Hastings 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.