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NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
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Environmental Planning Instrument - Land Zoning

This spatial dataset identifies land use zones and the type of land uses that are permitted (with or without consent) or prohibited in each zone on any given land as designated by the relevant NSW environmental planning instrument (EPI) under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. Land use zones are grouped into the following broad categories: BUSINESS (B), ENVIRONMENT (E), INDUSTRIAL (IN), RESIDENTIAL (R), RECREATION (RE), RURAL (RU), SPECIAL (SP) and WATERWAYS (W). The specific EPI which defines the planning requirement is described in the attribute field EPI_Name. The EPI can be viewed on the NSW legislation website: www.legislation.nsw.gov.au

Contact data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au for a data package (shapefile and geodatabase).

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Field Value
Language English
Alternative Title Environmental planning Instrument LEP LZN
Edition 1
Purpose This spatial dataset identifies land use zones and the type of land uses that are permitted (with or without consent) or prohibited in each zone on any given land as designated by the relevant NSW environmental planning instrument (EPI) under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Frequency of change Weekly
Keywords HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning,LAND,LAND-Cadastre,LAND-Use,BOUNDARIES-Administrative
Metadata Date 2017-02-17
Date of Asset Creation 2008-08-29
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 1
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Surface
Object count
Geospatial Topic Planning cadastre
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2008-08-29
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 2024"
Groups SEED Layer Intersect Tool: BAM (stage 1) layer list