What is NUZ5 zoning in Australian Capital Territory?
NUZ5 in Australian Capital Territory is the MOUNTAINS AND BUSHLANDS zone. It is a environment & waterways zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: conservation, bushland, waterways and the coast.
What can you build on NUZ5?
NUZ5 is a environment & waterways zone, so it broadly supports environment & waterways 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.
NUZ5 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 NUZ5 sits in the environment and conservation family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- New South Wales
- C1C2C3C4W1W2W3
- Victoria
- RCZPCRZUFZ
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- CNEM
- South Australia
- ConCWOIHF
- Western Australia
- ConservationNational parkEnvironmental conservationForeshore
- Tasmania
- 2223
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.