What is OS zoning in South Australia?
OS in South Australia is the Open Space zone. It is a open space zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: parks, sportsgrounds and public recreation reserves.
What can you build on OS?
OS is a open space zone, so it broadly supports open space 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.
OS 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 OS sits in the open space and recreation family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- New South Wales
- RE1RE2RECPPRC
- Victoria
- PPRZ
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- OSSR
- Western Australia
- Open spaceParks and recreationPublic open spaceRecreation
- Tasmania
- 2829
- Australian Capital Territory
- PRZ1PRZ2
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.