What’s permitted in R1 General Residential
Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 · as at 19 August 2026 · City of Sydney
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
- Home occupations
Permitted with consent 26
Development Application (DA)
- Attached dwellings
- Bed and breakfast accommodation
- Boarding houses
- Centre-based child care facilities
- Community facilities
- Dwelling houses
- Food and drink premises
- Group homes
- Home industries
- Horticulture
- Hostels
- Multi dwelling housing
- Neighbourhood shops
- Oyster aquaculture
- Places of public worship
- Pond-based aquaculture
- Residential flat buildings
- Respite day care centres
- Roads
- Roadside stalls
- Semi-detached dwellings
- Seniors housing
- Sewage reticulation systems
- Shop top housing
- Shops
- Tank-based aquaculture
Prohibited 55
- Agriculture
- Air transport facilities
- Airstrips
- Amusement centres
- Animal boarding or training establishments
- Boat building and repair facilities
- Boat launching ramps
- Camping grounds
- Car parks
- Caravan parks
- Charter and tourism boating facilities
- Commercial premises
- Crematoria
- Depots
- Eco-tourist facilities
- Entertainment facilities
- Environmental protection works
- Exhibition villages
- Extractive industries
- Farm buildings
- Forestry
- Freight transport facilities
- Function centres
- Heavy industrial storage establishments
- Helipads
- Highway service centres
- Industrial retail outlets
- Industries
- Local distribution premises
- Mooring pens
- Moorings
- Mortuaries
- Passenger transport facilities
- Port facilities
- Recreation facilities (major)
- Recreation facilities (outdoor)
- Registered clubs
- Research stations
- Restricted premises
- Rural industries
- Service stations
- Sewerage systems
- Sex services premises
- Storage premises
- Tourist and visitor accommodation
- Transport depots
- Truck depots
- Vehicle body repair workshops
- Vehicle repair stations
- Veterinary hospitals
- Warehouse or distribution centres
- Waste or resource management facilities
- Water recreation structures
- Water supply systems
- 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 for the housing needs of the community.
- To provide for a variety of housing types and densities.
- To enable other land uses that provide facilities or services to meet the day to day needs of residents.
- To maintain the existing land use pattern of predominantly residential 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 Sydney
This page is the table for the zone. Search an address to see whether this zone actually covers the lot, or open the Sydney zoning map.
Other zones in Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012
Building rules
Frequently asked questions
Does this R1 General Residential table apply to my property in Sydney?
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 R1 General Residential?
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 R1 General Residential, is it prohibited in Sydney?
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 Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012, 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 Sydney
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