NSW · Illawarra Shoalhaven · Suburban
Shellharbour City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Shellharbour City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
17% of Shellharbour City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
25 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,633 ha17%
- R1 General Residential289 ha1.9%
- R2 Low Density Residential2,040 ha13%
- R3 Medium Density Residential250 ha1.6%
- R5 Large Lot Residential54.9 ha0.4%
Employment and mixed use356 ha2.3%
- B4 Mixed Use74.4 ha0.5%
- E1 Local Centre71.5 ha0.5%
- E2 Commercial Centre34.2 ha0.2%
- E3 Productivity Support12 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial121 ha0.8%
- IN2 Light Industrial43 ha0.3%
Special purpose572 ha3.7%
- SP1 Special Activities141 ha0.9%
- SP2 Infrastructure431 ha2.8%
Recreation958 ha6.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation736 ha4.7%
- RE2 Private Recreation222 ha1.4%
Rural3,859 ha25%
- RU1 Primary Production2,161 ha14%
- RU2 Rural Landscape1,669 ha11%
- RU6 Transition28.9 ha0.2%
Conservation5,924 ha38%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves1,070 ha6.9%
- C2 Environmental Conservation802 ha5.2%
- C3 Environmental Management3,934 ha25%
- C4 Environmental Living93 ha0.6%
- E2 Environmental Conservation24.3 ha0.2%
Waterways734 ha4.7%
- W1 Natural Waterways315 ha2%
- W2 Recreational Waterways419 ha2.7%
Other521 ha3.3%
- DM Deferred Matter521 ha3.3%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Shellharbour
- Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013The council's local environmental plan96%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy3.9%
- Shellharbour Rural Local Environmental Plan 2004The council's local environmental plan0.4%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Shellharbour’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Amendment No 2811 Sept 2026
- Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan (Precincts – Regional) (Map Amendment No 2)10 July 2026
- Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 513 Feb 2026
- Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 413 Oct 2023
- Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 — Map Amendment No 131 Mar 2023
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Use Zones) 202324 Feb 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 Shellharbour 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.