NSW · Illawarra Shoalhaven · Urban
Wollongong City Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Wollongong City Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
10% of Wollongong City Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
29 zones and the land each covers
Residential7,396 ha10%
- R1 General Residential210 ha0.3%
- R2 Low Density Residential6,776 ha9.5%
- R3 Medium Density Residential352 ha0.5%
- R5 Large Lot Residential57.7 haunder 0.1%
Employment and mixed use2,206 ha3.1%
- E1 Local Centre118 ha0.2%
- E2 Commercial Centre86.6 ha0.1%
- E3 Productivity Support182 ha0.3%
- E4 General Industrial680 ha1%
- E5 Heavy Industrial295 ha0.4%
- IN3 Heavy Industrial795 ha1.1%
- MU1 Mixed Use50 haunder 0.1%
Special purpose4,966 ha7%
- SP1 Special Activities613 ha0.9%
- SP2 Infrastructure4,042 ha5.7%
- SP3 Tourist111 ha0.2%
- SP4 Enterprise200 ha0.3%
Recreation2,183 ha3.1%
- RE1 Public Recreation1,561 ha2.2%
- RE2 Private Recreation622 ha0.9%
Rural1,722 ha2.4%
- RU1 Primary Production230 ha0.3%
- RU2 Rural Landscape1,456 ha2%
- RU4 Primary Production Small Lots36.2 haunder 0.1%
Conservation49,775 ha70%
- C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves6,702 ha9.4%
- C2 Environmental Conservation38,506 ha54%
- C3 Environmental Management3,826 ha5.4%
- C4 Environmental Living742 ha1%
Waterways2,865 ha4%
- W1 Natural Waterways927 ha1.3%
- W2 Recreational Waterways1,933 ha2.7%
- W3 Working Waterways1.6 haunder 0.1%
- W4 Working Waterfront2.6 haunder 0.1%
Other118 ha0.2%
- DM Deferred Matter118 ha0.2%
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Wollongong
- Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009The council's local environmental plan98%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021A State planning policy1.8%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) 2021A State planning policy0.5%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Wollongong’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Amendment No 642 Oct 2026
- Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Map Amendment No 1312 June 2026
- Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Map Amendment No 1123 Jan 2026
- Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Amendment No 6012 Dec 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Regional) Amendment (Port Kembla Land Transformation Precinct) 202514 Nov 2025
- Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 — Map Amendment No 1017 Oct 2025
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 Wollongong 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.