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The Hills Shire Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of The Hills Shire Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
15% of The Hills Shire Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2019 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
29 zones and the land each covers
Residential5,810 ha15%
- R1 General Residential99.9 ha0.3%
- R2 Low Density Residential4,219 ha11%
- R3 Medium Density Residential1,202 ha3.1%
- R4 High Density Residential290 ha0.7%
Employment and mixed use599 ha1.5%
- B1 Neighbourhood Centre2.1 haunder 0.1%
- B2 Local Centre17.2 haunder 0.1%
- B4 Mixed Useunder 1 haunder 0.1%
- B6 Enterprise Corridor26.9 haunder 0.1%
- B7 Business Park69.1 ha0.2%
- E1 Local Centre81.5 ha0.2%
- E3 Productivity Support137 ha0.4%
- E4 General Industrial187 ha0.5%
- IN2 Light Industrial6.5 haunder 0.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use71.1 ha0.2%
Special purpose652 ha1.7%
- SP2 Infrastructure475 ha1.2%
- SP3 Tourist7.4 haunder 0.1%
- SP4 Enterprise170 ha0.4%
Recreation1,386 ha3.6%
- RE1 Public Recreation1,064 ha2.8%
- RE2 Private Recreation322 ha0.8%
Rural27,613 ha71%
- RU1 Primary Production1,140 ha2.9%
- RU2 Rural Landscape18,167 ha47%
- RU3 Forestry45.4 ha0.1%
- RU5 Village5.5 haunder 0.1%
- RU6 Transition8,255 ha21%
Conservation2,048 ha5.3%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves576 ha1.5%
- C2 Environmental Conservation786 ha2%
- C3 Environmental Management38.8 ha0.1%
- C4 Environmental Living648 ha1.7%
Waterways531 ha1.4%
- W2 Recreational Waterways531 ha1.4%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone The Hills
- The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2019The council's local environmental plan96%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Central River City) 2021A State planning policy4.3%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See The Hills’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Cherrybrook Station Precinct) 20267 Aug 2026
- The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2019 — Map Amendment No 512 Dec 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Bella Vista and Kellyville Transport Oriented Development Precincts) 202427 Nov 2024
- The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2019 — Map Amendment No 211 Aug 2023
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Land Use Zones) (No 2) 202216 Dec 2022
- The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2019 — Amendment No 226 May 2022
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 The Hills 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.