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# pt Land Use Table
Land Use Table
Note—
State environmental planning policies, including the following, may be relevant to development on land to which this Plan applies—
> [State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2021-0714)
> [State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2021-0732), Chapter 2—relating to infrastructure facilities, including air transport, correction, education, electricity generating works and solar energy systems, health services, ports, railways, roads, waste management and water supply systems
> [State Environmental Planning Policy (Resources and Energy) 2021](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2021-0731), Chapter 2
> [State Environmental Planning Policy (Resilience and Hazards) 2021](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2021-0730), Chapter 3
> [State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) 2021](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2021-0723), Chapter 3
> [State Environmental Planning Policy (Primary Production) 2021](/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2021-0729), Chapter 2
**Note:** Ins 2010 (161), Sch 2 \[11\]. Am 2011 (362), Sch 1 \[5\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[1\]; 2021 (711), Sch 1\[2\]. Subst 2022 (71), Sch 1\[3\]. Am 2022 (628), Sch 1\[2\].
**Directions:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[10\]; 2010 (161), Sch 2 \[12\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[7\]; 2011 No 62, Sch 2.31; 2013 No 111, Sch 3.27 \[1\]; 2017 (492), Sch 1 \[1\] \[2\]; 2018 (477), Sch 1 \[1\]; 2019 (620), Sch 2\[4\]–\[7\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[6\] \[7\]; 2021 (711), Sch 1\[3\]; 2022 (592), Sch 1\[1\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[2\] \[3\].
Direction 1.
Additional objectives may be included in a zone at the end of the listed objectives to reflect particular local objectives of development, but only if they are consistent with the core objectives for development in the zone as set out in the Land Use Table.
Direction 2.
Specified uses may be added to (but not removed from) the list of development that is permitted or prohibited in a zone. Additional uses may be added to an item of a zone even if some uses are already specified in that item. Additional permitted uses for particular land (but not all land in a particular zone) may be set out in Schedule 1.
Direction 3.
Items 2, 3 and 4 of each zone require a relevant entry to be inserted. The following may be entered—
> (a) particular uses in alphabetical order,
> (b) the word “Nil”,
> (c) the words “Any development not specified in item \[*specify item number or numbers*\]”,
> (d) particular uses in alphabetical order followed by the words “Any other development not specified in item \[*specify item number or numbers*\]”,
so long as all residual (ie non-specified) uses are covered.
Direction 4.
Respite day care centres must be permitted wherever a centre-based child care facility is permitted in the Land Use Table.
Direction 5.
Only the following types of development may be included in the Land Use 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; Co-living housing; Commercial premises; Community facilities; Correctional centres; Creative industries; Crematoria
>
> Dairies (pasture-based); Dairies (restricted); Data centres; 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 experience premises; Farm gate premises; Farm stay accommodation; Feedlots; Flood mitigation works; Food and drink premises; Forestry; Freight transport facilities; Function centres; Funeral homes
>
> Garden centres; General industries; Goods repair and reuse premises; Group homes; Group homes (permanent) or permanent group homes; Group homes (transitional) or transitional group homes
>
> Hardware and building supplies; Hazardous industries; Hazardous storage establishments; Health consulting rooms; Health services facilities; Heavy industrial storage establishments; Heavy industries; Helipads; Heliports; High technology industries; Highway service centres; Home-based child care; Home businesses; Home industries; Home occupations; Home occupations (sex services); 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; Pig farms; Places of public worship; Plant nurseries; Pond-based aquaculture; Port facilities; Poultry farms; Primitive camping grounds; 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; Shops; Shop top housing; 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
Direction 6.
A direction in this Land Use Table that requires a land use to be permitted with or without development consent in a particular zone is taken to be a direction that the land use be permitted with development consent but only—
> (a) for the purposes of the automatic adoption of amendments to the mandatory provisions of this standard instrument by a local environmental plan that has adopted those mandatory provisions (a standard plan), and
> (b) if the direction commences after the commencement of the standard plan.
Direction 7—
At least 1 type of commercial premises or health services facilities must be permitted wherever shop top housing is permitted in the Land Use Table.
Zone RU1 Primary Production
> **Zone RU1:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[11\] \[12\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[8\] \[9\]; 2011 (362), Sch 1 \[6\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Farm buildings
>
> > Intensive livestock agriculture
>
> > Intensive plant agriculture
>
> > Roads
>
> > Roadside stalls
Zone RU2 Rural Landscape
> **Zone RU2:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[11\] \[13\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Farm buildings
>
> > Roads
Zone RU3 Forestry
> **Zone RU3:** Am 2012 No 96, Sch 4.41 \[1\]; 2018 No 40, Sch 3.12 \[1\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[3\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone RU4 Primary Production Small Lots
> **Zone RU4:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[14\]–\[16\]. Subst 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[10\]. Am 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Extensive agriculture
>
> > Farm buildings
>
> > Intensive plant agriculture
>
> > Roads
>
> > Roadside stalls
Zone RU5 Village
> **Zone RU5:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[15\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[11\]; 2017 (492), Sch 1 \[3\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[4\] \[5\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[8\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone RU6 Transition
> **Zone RU6:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[16\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[12\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[4\] \[5\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[9\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone R1 General Residential
> **Zone R1:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[15\] \[17\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[11\]; 2017 (492), Sch 1 \[3\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[6\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone R2 Low Density Residential
> **Zone R2:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[15\]; 2009 (362), cl 3 (1); 2017 (492), Sch 1 \[4\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[7\]; 2021 (711), Sch 1\[4\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone R3 Medium Density Residential
> **Zone R3:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[18\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[11\]; 2017 (492), Sch 1 \[3\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[4\] \[5\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[10\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone R4 High Density Residential
> **Zone R4:** Am 2009 (362), cl 3 (2); 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[11\]; 2017 (492), Sch 1 \[3\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[9\] \[10\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[11\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone R5 Large Lot Residential
> **Zone R5:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[15\] \[16\] \[19\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[9\] \[13\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[8\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone E1 Local Centre
> **Zone E1:** Ins 2021 (650), Sch 1\[12\]. Am 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\] \[6\].
>
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Building identification signs
>
> > Business identification signs
>
> > Home businesses
>
> > Home industries
>
> > Home occupations
>
> > Recreation areas
>
> > Roads
Zone E2 Commercial Centre
> **Zone E2:** Ins 2021 (650), Sch 1\[12\]. Am 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\] \[7\] \[8\].
>
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Building identification signs
>
> > Business identification signs
>
> > Home businesses
>
> > Home industries
>
> > Home occupations
>
> > Roads
Zone E3 Productivity Support
> **Zone E3:** Ins 2021 (650), Sch 1\[12\]. Am 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Building identification signs
>
> > Business identification signs
>
> > Home industries
>
> > Roads
Zone E4 General Industrial
> **Zone E4:** Ins 2021 (650), Sch 1\[12\]. Am 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Building identification signs
>
> > Business identification signs
>
> > Roads
Zone E5 Heavy Industrial
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Building identification signs
>
> > Business identification signs
>
> > Roads
Zone MU1 Mixed Use
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Building identification signs
>
> > Business identification signs
>
> > Home industries
>
> > Roads
Zone SP1 Special Activities
> **Zone SP1:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[22\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[11\]; 2019 (620), Sch 2\[8\] \[9\].
Zone SP2 Infrastructure
> **Zone SP2:** Am 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[12\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Aquaculture
>
> > Roads
Zone SP3 Tourist
> **Zone SP3:** Am 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone SP4 Enterprise
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone SP5 Metropolitan Centre
> Direction 1—
>
> This zone may only be used in the following local government areas—
>
> > City of Sydney
>
> > North Sydney
>
> Direction 2—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads
Zone RE1 Public Recreation
> **Zone RE1:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[31\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental facilities
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Roads
Zone RE2 Private Recreation
> **Zone RE2:** Am 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental facilities
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Roads
Zone C1 National Parks and Nature Reserves
Zone C2 Environmental Conservation
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental protection works
Zone C3 Environmental Management
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Roads
>
> Home industries, kiosks, cellar door premises, neighbourhood shops and roadside stalls may, but need not be, permitted with development consent.
Zone C4 Environmental Living
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Roads
>
> Home industries may, but need not be, permitted with development consent.
Zone W1 Natural Waterways
> **Zone W1:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[41\] \[42\]; 2010 (161), Sch 2 \[13\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[26\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[3\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[21\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Environmental facilities
>
> > Environmental protection works
Zone W2 Recreational Waterways
> **Zone W2:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[41\] \[43\]–\[45\]; 2010 (161), Sch 2 \[13\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2021 (650), Sch 1\[22\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Boat sheds
>
> > Environmental facilities
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Water recreation structures
Zone W3 Working Waterways
> **Zone W3:** Am 2007 (600), Sch 2 \[45\]–\[48\]; 2011 (102), Sch 2 \[25\] \[27\]; 2019 (133), Sch 1 \[2\]; 2022 (726), Sch 1\[4\].
>
> Direction.
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Boat sheds
>
> > Environmental facilities
>
> > Environmental protection works
>
> > Water recreation structures
Zone W4 Working Waterfront
> Direction—
>
> The following must be permitted with or without development consent in this zone—
>
> > Roads