What is DES zoning in Australian Capital Territory?
DES in Australian Capital Territory is the IGNATED zone. It is a special & infrastructure zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: schools, hospitals, transport, utilities and special-use sites.
What can you build on DES?
DES is a special & infrastructure zone, so it broadly supports special & infrastructure land uses. The exact permitted, permissible and prohibited uses — and the development standards (height, floor space, lot size) — are set by the local environmental plan or planning scheme that applies to the parcel, and they vary council by council. Always confirm the controls against the current instrument before relying on them.
DES equivalents in other states
Every Australian jurisdiction writes its own zoning vocabulary, so the same planning intent wears a different code over each border. Australian Capital Territory DES sits in the special and infrastructure family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- New South Wales
- SP1SP2SP3SP4SP5
- Victoria
- SUZPUZTRZPDZCDZ
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- CFSPPDA
- South Australia
- CFInfInf(A)TD
- Western Australia
- Special usePublic purposeInfrastructureRailwayCivic and community
- Tasmania
- 2425262731
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.