What’s permitted in E5 Heavy Industrial
Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2023 · as at 19 August 2026 · City of Parramatta 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 24
Development Application (DA)
- Agricultural produce industries
- Building identification signs
- Business identification signs
- Data centres
- Depots
- Freight transport facilities
- General industries
- Hardware and building supplies
- Hazardous storage establishments
- Heavy industries
- Horticulture
- Industrial training facilities
- Kiosks
- Medical centres
- Offensive storage establishments
- Oyster aquaculture
- Pubs
- Rural supplies
- Sawmill or log processing works
- Take away food and drink premises
- Tank-based aquaculture
- Timber yards
- Warehouse or distribution centres
- Water storage facilities
Prohibited 47
- Agriculture
- Air transport facilities
- Airstrips
- Amusement centres
- Artisan food and drink industries
- Boat launching ramps
- Boat sheds
- Camping grounds
- Caravan parks
- Cemeteries
- Charter and tourism boating facilities
- Commercial premises
- Community facilities
- Early education and care facilities
- Eco-tourist facilities
- Educational establishments
- Entertainment facilities
- Exhibition homes
- Exhibition villages
- Farm buildings
- Forestry
- Function centres
- Health services facilities
- Helipads
- Highway service centres
- Home businesses
- Home industries
- Home occupations
- Home occupations (sex services)
- Industrial retail outlets
- Information and education facilities
- Jetties
- Marinas
- Mooring pens
- Moorings
- Open cut mining
- Port facilities
- Registered clubs
- Research stations
- Residential accommodation
- Rural industries
- Signage
- Tourist and visitor accommodation
- Water recreation structures
- Water supply systems
- Wharf or boating facilities
- Wholesale supplies
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 areas for industries that need to be separated from other 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 allow a wide range of industrial uses serving the Six Cities Region.
- To preserve opportunities to create future foreshore access on contaminated land not suitable for public access.
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 Parramatta
This page is the table for the zone. Search an address to see whether this zone actually covers the lot, or open the Parramatta zoning map.
Other zones in Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2023
Building rules
Frequently asked questions
Does this E5 Heavy Industrial table apply to my property in Parramatta?
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 E5 Heavy 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 E5 Heavy Industrial, is it prohibited in Parramatta?
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 Parramatta Local Environmental 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 Parramatta
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