What is SAC zoning in South Australia?
SAC in South Australia is the Suburban 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 SAC?
SAC 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.
SAC 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 SAC 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.