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Richmond Valley Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Richmond Valley Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
0.5% of Richmond Valley Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Richmond Valley Local Environmental Plan 2012
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
19 zones and the land each covers
Residential1,660 ha0.5%
- R1 General Residential786 ha0.3%
- R5 Large Lot Residential875 ha0.3%
Employment and mixed use470 ha0.2%
- E1 Local Centre9.7 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre34 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support31.3 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial395 ha0.1%
Special purpose487 ha0.2%
- SP1 Special Activities1.1 haunder 0.1%
- SP2 Infrastructure486 ha0.2%
Recreation487 ha0.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation294 haunder 0.1%
- RE2 Private Recreation193 haunder 0.1%
Rural259,350 ha85%
- RU1 Primary Production209,581 ha69%
- RU3 Forestry49,416 ha16%
- RU5 Village352 ha0.1%
Conservation40,485 ha13%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves36,091 ha12%
- C2 Environmental Conservation3,708 ha1.2%
- C3 Environmental Management686 ha0.2%
Waterways2,333 ha0.8%
- W1 Natural Waterways2,305 ha0.8%
- W2 Recreational Waterways24.1 haunder 0.1%
- W4 Working Waterfront3.2 haunder 0.1%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Richmond Valley
- Richmond Valley Local Environmental Plan 2012The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Richmond Valley’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Richmond Valley Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 324 Oct 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Richmond Valley Regional Jobs Precinct) 202521 Mar 2025
- Richmond Valley Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 214 Mar 2025
- Richmond Valley Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 128 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
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 Richmond Valley 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.