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Port Stephens Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Port Stephens Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
5.2% of Port Stephens Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
26 zones and the land each covers
Residential5,048 ha5.2%
- R1 General Residential409 ha0.4%
- R2 Low Density Residential2,528 ha2.6%
- R3 Medium Density Residential188 ha0.2%
- R5 Large Lot Residential1,923 ha2%
Employment and mixed use1,570 ha1.6%
- E1 Local Centre63.1 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre47.6 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support94 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial948 ha1%
- IN1 General Industrial375 ha0.4%
- MU1 Mixed Use41.5 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose12,331 ha13%
- SP1 Special Activities7,177 ha7.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure5,065 ha5.2%
- SP4 Enterprise89.1 haunder 0.1%
Recreation1,298 ha1.3%
- RE1 Public Recreation907 ha0.9%
- RE2 Private Recreation391 ha0.4%
Rural36,478 ha37%
- RU1 Primary Production11,536 ha12%
- RU2 Rural Landscape21,351 ha22%
- RU3 Forestry3,512 ha3.6%
- RU5 Village78.8 haunder 0.1%
Conservation27,505 ha28%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves19,383 ha20%
- C2 Environmental Conservation3,864 ha4%
- C3 Environmental Management4,144 ha4.3%
- C4 Environmental Living115 ha0.1%
Waterways13,190 ha14%
- W1 Natural Waterways511 ha0.5%
- W2 Recreational Waterways12,649 ha13%
- W4 Working Waterfront30 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Port Stephens
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan99%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy0.6%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Port Stephens’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 1111 Sept 2026
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 1013 Feb 2026
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Amendment No 464 Apr 2025
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Amendment No 4430 Aug 2024
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 823 Aug 2024
- Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Amendment No 4322 Mar 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 Stephens 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.