NSW · Illawarra Shoalhaven · Regional
Shoalhaven City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Shoalhaven City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
1.9% of Shoalhaven City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
28 zones and the land each covers
Residential8,800 ha1.9%
- R1 General Residential1,514 ha0.3%
- R2 Low Density Residential4,044 ha0.9%
- R3 Medium Density Residential242 haunder 0.1%
- R5 Large Lot Residential3,000 ha0.7%
Employment and mixed use1,154 ha0.3%
- E1 Local Centre80.5 haunder 0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre45.9 haunder 0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support205 haunder 0.1%
- E4 General Industrial654 ha0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use168 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose9,139 ha2%
- SP1 Special Activities4,412 ha1%
- SP2 Infrastructure4,530 ha1%
- SP3 Tourist196 haunder 0.1%
Recreation2,837 ha0.6%
- RE1 Public Recreation2,592 ha0.6%
- RE2 Private Recreation245 haunder 0.1%
Rural141,852 ha31%
- RU1 Primary Production32,506 ha7.1%
- RU2 Rural Landscape54,600 ha12%
- RU3 Forestry51,953 ha11%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots2,241 ha0.5%
- RU5 Village553 ha0.1%
Conservation282,086 ha62%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves231,728 ha51%
- C2 Environmental Conservation25,425 ha5.6%
- C3 Environmental Management24,322 ha5.3%
- C4 Environmental Living611 ha0.1%
Waterways8,431 ha1.9%
- W1 Natural Waterways2,560 ha0.6%
- W2 Recreational Waterways5,855 ha1.3%
- W3 Working Waterways12.6 haunder 0.1%
- W4 Working Waterfront3.5 haunder 0.1%
Other1,158 ha0.3%
- DM Deferred Matter1,158 ha0.3%
- No zone on NSW’s map12,748 ha
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Shoalhaven
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014The council's local environmental plan100%
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan (Jerberra Estate) 2014The council's local environmental planunder 0.1%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Shoalhaven’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 162 Oct 2026
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 1517 July 2026
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Map Amendment No 143 July 2026
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Amendment No 5829 Aug 2025
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Amendment No 5720 June 2025
- Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014 — Amendment No 5423 Aug 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 Shoalhaven 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.