What is SMS zoning in South Australia?
SMS in South Australia is the Suburban Main Street zone. It is a commercial & centres zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: shopfront-and-apartments blocks where homes sit above commercial uses.
What can you build on SMS?
SMS 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.
SMS 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 SMS sits in the mixed use family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- New South Wales
- B4MUMU1
- Victoria
- MUZ
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- MU
- Western Australia
- Mixed useMixed business
- Tasmania
- 13
- Australian Capital Territory
- CZ5
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.