What’s permitted in E4 General Industrial
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 without consent 1
No consent required
- Recreation areas
Permitted with consent 23
Development Application (DA)
- Depots
- Food and drink premises
- Freight transport facilities
- Garden centres
- General industries
- Goods repair and reuse premises
- Hardware and building supplies
- Industrial retail outlets
- Industrial training facilities
- Kiosks
- Landscaping material supplies
- Light industries
- Liquid fuel depots
- Local distribution premises
- Neighbourhood shops
- Oyster aquaculture
- Plant nurseries
- Rural supplies
- Take away food and drink premises
- Tank-based aquaculture
- Timber yards
- Vehicle sales or hire premises
- Warehouse or distribution centres
Prohibited 32
- Boat sheds
- Camping grounds
- Caravan parks
- Cemeteries
- Charter and tourism boating facilities
- Commercial premises
- Correctional centres
- Eco-tourist facilities
- Educational establishments
- Entertainment facilities
- Environmental facilities
- Exhibition homes
- Exhibition villages
- Extractive industries
- Farm buildings
- Forestry
- Heavy industrial storage establishments
- Heavy industries
- Home-based child care
- Home businesses
- Home occupations
- Home occupations (sex services)
- Hospitals
- Information and education facilities
- Marinas
- Mooring pens
- Moorings
- Open cut mining
- Public administration buildings
- Residential accommodation
- Tourist and visitor accommodation
- Water recreation structures
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 industrial, warehouse, logistics and related land uses.
- To ensure the efficient and viable use of land for industrial uses.
- To minimise any adverse effect of industry on other land uses.
- To encourage employment opportunities.
- To enable limited non-industrial land uses that provide facilities and services to meet the needs of businesses and workers.
- To ensure that retail, commercial or service land uses in industrial areas are of an ancillary nature.
- To support and protect industrial land for industrial uses.
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 E4 General Industrial 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 E4 General Industrial?
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 E4 General Industrial, 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