What can you build where, in NSW
183 defined land uses, each showing the zones that allow it and the zones that prohibit it, counted across 147 council Local Environmental Plans.
Every use with a published table
- Advertising structures
- Agricultural produce industries
- Agriculture
- Agritourism
- Air transport facilities
- Airports
- Airstrips
- Amusement centres
- Animal boarding or training establishments
- Aquaculture
- Artisan food and drink industries
- Attached dwellings
- Backpackers’ accommodation
- Bed and breakfast accommodation
- Bee keeping
- Biosolids treatment facilities
- Boarding houses
- Boat building and repair facilities
- Boat launching ramps
- Boat sheds
- Building identification signs
- Business identification signs
- Business premises
- Camping grounds
- Car parks
- Caravan parks
- Cellar door premises
- Cemeteries
- Centre-based child care facilities
- Charter and tourism boating facilities
- Charter or tourism boating facilities
- Co-living housing
- Commercial premises
- Community facilities
- Correctional centres
- Creative industries
- Crematoria
- Dairies (pasture-based)
- Depots
- Dual occupancies
- Dual occupancies (attached)
- Dual occupancies (detached)
- Dwelling houses
- Early education and care facilities
- Eco-tourist facilities
- Educational establishments
- Electricity generating works
- Emergency services facilities
- Entertainment facilities
- Environmental facilities
- Environmental protection works
- Exhibition homes
- Exhibition villages
- Extensive agriculture
- Extractive industries
- Farm buildings
- Farm stay accommodation
- Flood mitigation works
- Food and drink premises
- Forestry
- Freight transport facilities
- Function centres
- Funeral homes
- Garden centres
- General industries
- Group homes
- Hardware and building supplies
- Hazardous storage establishments
- Health consulting rooms
- Health services facilities
- Heavy industrial storage establishments
- Heavy industries
- Helipads
- Heliports
- High technology industries
- Highway service centres
- Home businesses
- Home industries
- Home occupations
- Home occupations (sex services)
- Home-based child care
- Horticulture
- Hospitals
- Hostels
- Hotel or motel accommodation
- Independent living units
- Industrial retail outlets
- Industrial training facilities
- Industries
- Information and education facilities
- Intensive livestock agriculture
- Intensive plant agriculture
- Jetties
- Kiosks
- Landscaping material supplies
- Light industries
- Liquid fuel depots
- Livestock processing industries
- Local distribution premises
- Marinas
- Markets
- Medical centres
- Mooring pens
- Moorings
- Mortuaries
- Multi dwelling housing
- Neighbourhood shops
- Neighbourhood supermarkets
- Offensive industries
- Offensive storage establishments
- Office premises
- Open cut mining
- Oyster aquaculture
- Passenger transport facilities
- Places of public worship
- Plant nurseries
- Pond-based aquaculture
- Port facilities
- Public administration buildings
- Pubs
- Recreation areas
- Recreation facilities (indoor)
- Recreation facilities (major)
- Recreation facilities (outdoor)
- Registered clubs
- Research stations
- Residential accommodation
- Residential care facilities
- Residential flat buildings
- Resource recovery facilities
- Respite day care centres
- Restaurants or cafes
- Restricted premises
- Retail premises
- Roads
- Roadside stalls
- Rural industries
- Rural supplies
- Rural workers’ dwellings
- Sawmill or log processing works
- School-based child care
- Schools
- Secondary dwellings
- Self-storage units
- Semi-detached dwellings
- Seniors housing
- Service stations
- Serviced apartments
- Sewage reticulation systems
- Sewage treatment plants
- Sewerage systems
- Sex services premises
- Shop top housing
- Shops
- Signage
- Small bars
- Specialised retail premises
- Stock and sale yards
- Storage premises
- Take away food and drink premises
- Tank-based aquaculture
- Timber yards
- Tourist and visitor accommodation
- Transport depots
- Truck depots
- Turf farming
- Vehicle body repair workshops
- Vehicle repair stations
- Vehicle sales or hire premises
- Veterinary hospitals
- Viticulture
- Warehouse or distribution centres
- Waste disposal facilities
- Waste or resource management facilities
- Waste or resource transfer stations
- Water recreation structures
- Water recycling facilities
- Water reticulation systems
- Water storage facilities
- Water supply systems
- Water treatment facilities
- Wharf or boating facilities
- Wholesale supplies
Frequently asked questions
Why are these names so formal?
They are the planning system’s own defined terms, not everyday words. A page titled with “cafe” or “Airbnb” would be guessing which defined term your project falls under, and that judgement is exactly what a planner is for.
Why New South Wales only?
NSW publishes a separate land use table for every council, so we can say how much councils differ — which is the useful part. Other states publish one scheme, and those pages are a plain list; they are next.
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