What’s permitted in CZ4
Territory Plan 2023 · as at 19 August 2026
The ACT has one Territory Plan for the whole territory, so this table applies directly to your land — there’s no separate council version to check.
The land use table
These are the planning scheme’s official terms. A close match tells you the rule for that term; whether your project counts as that term is a judgement call.
Permissible (Y) 61
Development Application
- Ancillary use
- Animal care facility
- Bulky goods retailing
- Business agency
- Café
- Car park
- Club
- Co-housing
- Communications facility
- Community activity centre
- Community garden
- Community housing
- Community theatre
- Complementary use
- Cultural facility
- Consolidation
- Craft workshop
- Demolition
- Drink establishment
- Early childhood education and care
- Educational establishment
- Financial establishment
- Guest house
- Health facility
- Home business
- Hospital
- Indoor entertainment facility
- Indoor recreation facility
- Industrial trades
- Light industry
- Minor road
- Minor use
- Municipal depot
- Multi-unit housing
- Office
- Parkland
- Pedestrian plaza
- Personal service
- Place of worship
- Produce market
- Public agency
- Recyclable materials collection
- Religious associated use
- Residential care accommodation
- Restaurant
- Retail plant nursery
- Retirement village
- Secondary residence
- Service station
- Shop
- Sign
- Single dwelling housing
- Subdivision
- Supermarket
- Supportive housing
- Take-away food shop
- Temporary use
- Transport facility
- Varying a lease
- Veterinary clinic
- Veterinary hospital
Not listed — prohibited 23
- Aquatic recreation facility
- Boarding house
- Caravan park/camping ground
- Caretakers’ residence
- Civic administration
- Commercial accommodation use
- Data centre
- Drive-in cinema
- Emergency services facility
- Freight transport facility
- Funeral parlour
- Group or organised camp
- Hotel / motel
- Light rail
- Outdoor recreation facility
- Overnight camping area
- Place of assembly
- Storage facility
- Tourist facility
- Tourist resort
- Vehicle sales
- Warehouse
- Zoological facility
This zone has no fallback for uses that are not named, so the table does not say what happens to them — that is different from a ban. Check with your council.
Local district policies for this area can add extra permissions on top of this table — those aren’t included here.
Small-scale work that’s exempt from needing a Development Application isn’t reflected here — a use shown as needing a DA may not, at a small enough scale.
Check a property in Australian Capital Territory
This page is the table for the zone. Search an address to see whether this zone actually covers the lot.
Other zones in Territory Plan 2023
Building rules
Frequently asked questions
Does this CZ4 table apply to my property in Australian Capital Territory?
Only if this zone and this planning scheme apply to the land. Search your address — that is what names both.
Can I assume my project is one of the terms listed for CZ4?
No. The list uses the planning scheme’s official names. Whether your project counts as one of those names is a judgement call — that’s what a planner is for.
If a use is not listed in CZ4, is it prohibited in Australian Capital Territory?
Not by itself. This zone has no fallback, so an unlisted use is not answered here — that is not a ban. Check with your council.
Sources
General guidance only — not planning advice. This is the land use table from Territory Plan 2023, sourced 19 August 2026. It does not decide what your project is, and overlays can still change what you need to apply for.
Talk to a town planner in Australian Capital Territory
This page covers the general rules. A qualified town planner can tell you what applies to your actual block — the zone, the overlays and the approval path — before you spend money on drawings.
- Qualified, practising town planners
- Advice on your property, not a generic rule
- No cost, no obligation