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Northern Beaches

64,556 residential parcels covering 50.3 km².

Highly restricted land

≈94% of Northern Beaches’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Northern Beaches ranks #6 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #30 of 133 capital city councils nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Northern Beaches. ABS LGA code 15990. Methodology →

Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.

Where Northern Beaches ranks in Sydney

Northern Beaches ranks #6 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Northern Beaches: ≈94% · rank #6 of 33

0% (least restrictive)(most restrictive) 100%

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. 3. Hawkesbury≈97%
  4. 4. Northern Beaches≈93%
  5. 5. Hornsby≈93%
  6. 6. Hunters Hill≈92%
  7. ⋯
  8. 32. North Sydney≈53%
  9. 33. Sydney≈33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Blue Mountains≈98%
  2. 2. Wollondilly≈97%
  3. ⋯
  4. 5. Hawkesbury≈88%
  5. 6. Hunters Hill≈87%
  6. 7. Northern Beaches≈86%
  7. 8. Blacktown≈85%
  8. 9. Georges River≈85%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. North Sydney≈42%
  11. 33. Sydney≈5%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hunters Hill≈58%
  2. 2. Sydney≈54%
  3. ⋯
  4. 22. Cumberland≈3%
  5. 23. Wollondilly≈2%
  6. 24. Northern Beaches≈2%
  7. 25. Canterbury-Bankstown≈2%
  8. 26. The Hills≈1%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Blacktown≈1%
  11. 33. Blue Mountains≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 4. Hornsby≈96%
  5. 5. Hunters Hill≈94%
  6. 6. Northern Beaches≈94%
  7. 7. Ku-ring-gai≈93%
  8. 8. Campbelltown (NSW)≈92%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Sydney≈62%
  11. 33. North Sydney≈59%

Source: Northern Beaches ranked against other Sydney-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Suburbs in Northern Beaches

38 suburbs sit inside this council.

ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Northern Beaches.

  1. Allambie Heights≈100%
  2. Avalon Beach≈100%
  3. Balgowlah Heights≈100%
  4. Beacon Hill≈100%
  5. Belrose≈100%
  6. Bilgola Plateau≈100%
  7. Church Point≈100%
  8. Clontarf (NSW)≈100%
  9. Collaroy Plateau≈100%
  10. Curl Curl≈100%
  11. Davidson≈100%
  12. Killarney Heights≈100%
  13. Narraweena≈100%
  14. North Balgowlah≈100%
  15. North Curl Curl≈100%
  16. North Manly≈100%
  17. North Narrabeen≈100%
  18. Palm Beach (NSW)≈100%
  19. Terrey Hills≈100%
  20. Wheeler Heights≈100%
  21. Cromer (NSW)≈100%
  22. Bayview (NSW)≈99%
  23. Elanora Heights≈99%
  24. Forestville (NSW)≈98%
  25. Newport (NSW)≈98%
  26. Seaforth (NSW)≈98%
  27. Frenchs Forest≈96%
  28. Freshwater (NSW)≈96%
  29. Fairlight≈95%
  30. Balgowlah≈88%
  31. Mona Vale≈88%
  32. Collaroy (NSW)≈86%
  33. Warriewood≈80%
  34. Manly Vale≈80%
  35. Manly (NSW)≈79%
  36. Narrabeen≈75%
  37. Dee Why≈58%
  38. Brookvale≈51%
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Sydney context

Northern Beaches ranks #6 of 33 councils in Sydney for highly restricted residential land.

  1. Wollondilly ≈100%
  2. Blue Mountains ≈100%
  3. Hawkesbury ≈98%
  4. Hornsby ≈96%
  5. Hunters Hill ≈94%
  6. Northern Beaches ≈94%
  7. Ku-ring-gai ≈93%
  8. Campbelltown (NSW) ≈92%
  9. Blacktown ≈90%
  10. Penrith ≈88%
  11. Fairfield ≈88%
  12. Georges River ≈87%
  13. Ryde ≈87%
  14. Sutherland ≈86%
  15. Willoughby ≈86%
  16. The Hills ≈85%
  17. Burwood ≈82%
  18. Mosman ≈81%
  19. Cumberland ≈81%
  20. Canterbury-Bankstown ≈81%
  21. Lane Cove ≈81%
  22. Strathfield ≈80%
  23. Inner West ≈78%
  24. Parramatta ≈78%
  25. Woollahra ≈77%
  26. Waverley ≈76%
  27. Liverpool ≈75%
  28. Bayside (NSW) ≈75%
  29. Randwick ≈75%
  30. Camden ≈74%
  31. Canada Bay ≈70%
  32. Sydney ≈62%
  33. North Sydney ≈59%
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Detailed zoning map

Northern Beaches’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Northern Beaches

  1. Environmental LivingC411 km²17.8%
  2. Low Density ResidentialR242 km²69.6%
  3. General ResidentialR13 km²4.8%
  4. Medium Density ResidentialR34 km²6.8%
  5. Commercial CentreE2<1 km²0.3%
  6. Mixed UseMU1<1 km²0.6%
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Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.

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