What is E5 zoning in New South Wales?
E5 in New South Wales is the Heavy Industrial zone. It is a industrial & employment zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: factories, warehouses, urban services and dedicated employment land.
What can you build on E5?
E5 is a industrial & employment zone, so it broadly supports industrial & employment 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.
E5 equivalents in other states
Every Australian jurisdiction writes its own zoning vocabulary, so the same planning intent wears a different code over each border. New South Wales E5 sits in the industrial and employment family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- Victoria
- IN1ZIN2ZIN3Z
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- INLIISIEIII
- South Australia
- EE(BH)E(En)SESInvHInRE
- Western Australia
- IndustrialGeneral industryLight industryService industry
- Tasmania
- 1819
- Australian Capital Territory
- IZ1IZ2
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.