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Willoughby City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Willoughby City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
48% of Willoughby City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
15 zones and the land each covers
Residential1,063 ha48%
- R2 Low Density Residential914 ha41%
- R3 Medium Density Residential126 ha5.7%
- R4 High Density Residential22.3 ha1%
Employment and mixed use217 ha9.8%
- E1 Local Centre23.4 ha1.1%
- E2 Commercial Centre39.5 ha1.8%
- E3 Productivity Support12.4 ha0.6%
- E4 General Industrial111 ha5%
- MU1 Mixed Use30.7 ha1.4%
Special purpose163 ha7.3%
- SP1 Special Activities5.7 ha0.3%
- SP2 Infrastructure157 ha7.1%
Recreation189 ha8.5%
- RE1 Public Recreation161 ha7.3%
- RE2 Private Recreation27.8 ha1.3%
Conservation591 ha27%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves8.1 ha0.4%
- C2 Environmental Conservation266 ha12%
- C4 Environmental Living317 ha14%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Willoughby
- Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012The council's local environmental plan100%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Willoughby’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 727 Mar 2026
- Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Amendment No 4022 Aug 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Crows Nest Transport Oriented Development Precinct) 202427 Nov 2024
- Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Amendment No 368 Mar 2024
- Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Amendment No 3430 June 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 Willoughby 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.