What’s permitted in E3 Productivity Support
Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022 · as at 19 August 2026 · Central Coast Council
This comes straight from the Local Environmental Plan (LEP) that applies to this exact address, not a general state guide.
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.
Permitted with consent 49
Development Application (DA)
- Animal boarding or training establishments
- Boat building and repair facilities
- Business premises
- Centre-based child care facilities
- Community facilities
- Depots
- Food and drink premises
- Function centres
- Garden centres
- Hardware and building supplies
- Hotel or motel accommodation
- Industrial retail outlets
- Industrial training facilities
- Information and education facilities
- Kiosks
- Landscaping material supplies
- Light industries
- Local distribution premises
- Markets
- Mortuaries
- Neighbourhood shops
- Office premises
- Oyster aquaculture
- Passenger transport facilities
- Places of public worship
- Plant nurseries
- Recreation areas
- Recreation facilities (indoor)
- Recreation facilities (major)
- Recreation facilities (outdoor)
- Research stations
- Respite day care centres
- Rural supplies
- Service stations
- Shop top housing
- Specialised retail premises
- Storage premises
- Take away food and drink premises
- Tank-based aquaculture
- Timber yards
- Vehicle body repair workshops
- Vehicle repair stations
- Vehicle sales or hire premises
- Veterinary hospitals
- Warehouse or distribution centres
- Waste or resource management facilities
- Water recycling facilities
- Water reticulation systems
- Wholesale supplies
Prohibited 32
- Agriculture
- Air transport facilities
- Airstrips
- Camping grounds
- Caravan parks
- Cemeteries
- Commercial premises
- Correctional centres
- Crematoria
- Eco-tourist facilities
- Entertainment facilities
- Exhibition homes
- Exhibition villages
- Extractive industries
- Farm buildings
- Forestry
- Freight transport facilities
- Heavy industrial storage establishments
- Highway service centres
- Home occupations (sex services)
- Industries
- Marinas
- Open cut mining
- Residential accommodation
- Resource recovery facilities
- Rural industries
- Sewerage systems
- Tourist and visitor accommodation
- Truck depots
- Waste disposal facilities
- Water supply systems
- Wharf or boating facilities
Anything not named below is treated as “Permitted with consent”. That is not the same as being on the list.
Objectives of this zone
- To provide a range of facilities and services, light industries, warehouses and offices.
- To provide for land uses that are compatible with, but do not compete with, land uses in surrounding local and commercial centres.
- To maintain the economic viability of local and commercial centres by limiting certain retail and commercial activity.
- To provide for land uses that meet the needs of the community, businesses and industries but that are not suited to locations in other employment zones.
- To provide opportunities for new and emerging light industries.
- To enable other land uses that provide facilities and services to meet the day to day needs of workers, to sell goods of a large size, weight or quantity or to sell goods manufactured on-site.
- To ensure the locations of businesses requiring large floor plates do not adversely affect commercial or residential areas.
- To ensure business areas are not adversely affected by residential development.
- To provide for residential uses, but only as part of mixed-use development.
- To provide primarily for businesses along key corridors.
- To permit limited residential accommodation that contributes to the provision of employment opportunities.
Some state-level housing and precinct policies sit above council rules and can override them — those aren’t included here.
A council’s LEP can also grant extra permitted uses of its own on top of the standard list — those aren’t included here either.
Check a property in Central Coast
This page is the table for the zone. Search an address to see whether this zone actually covers the lot, or open the Central Coast zoning map.
Other zones in Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022
Building rules
Frequently asked questions
Does this E3 Productivity Support table apply to my property in Central Coast?
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 E3 Productivity Support?
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 E3 Productivity Support, is it prohibited in Central Coast?
Not by itself. Unlisted uses follow this zone’s fallback (“Permitted with consent”). That is different from being named on the list.
Sources
General guidance only — not planning advice. This is the land use table from Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022, 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 Central Coast
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