What is LAC zoning in South Australia?
LAC in South Australia is the Local Activity Centre zone. It is a commercial & centres zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: shops, offices and the hierarchy of local to capital-city centres.
What can you build on LAC?
LAC is a commercial & centres zone, so it broadly supports commercial & centres 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.
LAC equivalents in other states
Every Australian jurisdiction writes its own zoning vocabulary, so the same planning intent wears a different code over each border. South Australia LAC sits in the commercial, business and centres family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- New South Wales
- B1B2B3B5B6B7B8E1E2
- Victoria
- C1ZC2ZACZCCZB1ZB2ZB3ZB4ZB5Z
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- PCMCDCNCSCTAT
- Western Australia
- CommercialCity centreTown centreDistrict centreLocal centreBusiness
- Tasmania
- 14151617
- Australian Capital Territory
- CZ1CZ2CZ3CZ4CZ6
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.