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Sutherland Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Sutherland Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
7.9% of Sutherland Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
26 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,911 ha7.9%
- R2 Low Density Residential2,405 ha6.5%
- R3 Medium Density Residential247 ha0.7%
- R4 High Density Residential259 ha0.7%
Employment and mixed use836 ha2.3%
- E1 Local Centre49.3 ha0.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre137 ha0.4%
- E3 Productivity Support37.9 ha0.1%
- E4 General Industrial357 ha1%
- E5 Heavy Industrial246 ha0.7%
- MU1 Mixed Use9.6 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose5,243 ha14%
- SP1 Special Activities578 ha1.6%
- SP2 Infrastructure4,651 ha13%
- SP3 Tourist1.3 haunder 0.1%
- SP4 Enterprise12.4 haunder 0.1%
Recreation1,015 ha2.7%
- RE1 Public Recreation948 ha2.6%
- RE2 Private Recreation66.7 ha0.2%
Conservation22,515 ha61%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves17,422 ha47%
- C2 Environmental Conservation1,971 ha5.3%
- C3 Environmental Management862 ha2.3%
- C4 Environmental Living2,163 ha5.8%
- E2 Environmental Conservation64.3 ha0.2%
- E4 Environmental Living33.2 haunder 0.1%
Waterways3,359 ha9.1%
- W1 Natural Waterways3,100 ha8.4%
- W2 Recreational Waterways255 ha0.7%
- W4 Working Waterfront4.3 haunder 0.1%
Other1,156 ha3.1%
- DM Deferred Matter1,087 ha2.9%
- UL Unzoned Land68.4 ha0.2%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Sutherland
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015The council's local environmental plan100%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Central River City) 2021A State planning policy0.3%
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2006The council's local environmental planunder 0.1%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021A State planning policyunder 0.1%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Sutherland’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Amendment No 2829 May 2026
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Map Amendment No 521 Feb 2025
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Map Amendment No 46 Sept 2024
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Map Amendment No 321 June 2024
- Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 — Amendment No 2611 Aug 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 Sutherland Shire 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.