What is SP3 zoning in New South Wales?
SP3 in New South Wales is the Tourist zone. It is a special & infrastructure zone under the state planning scheme. In plain terms: schools, hospitals, transport, utilities and special-use sites.
What can you build on SP3?
SP3 is a special & infrastructure zone, so it broadly supports special & infrastructure 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.
SP3 equivalents in other states
Every Australian jurisdiction writes its own zoning vocabulary, so the same planning intent wears a different code over each border. New South Wales SP3 sits in the special and infrastructure family; these are the closest codes elsewhere.
- Victoria
- SUZPUZTRZPDZCDZ
- Queensland (Brisbane)
- CFSPPDA
- South Australia
- CFInfInf(A)TD
- Western Australia
- Special usePublic purposeInfrastructureRailwayCivic and community
- Tasmania
- 2425262731
- Australian Capital Territory
- CFTSZ1TSZ2DES
See the full cross-state mapping, family by family, on the zone equivalence page.