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Waverley

13,507 residential parcels covering 5.2 km².

Highly restricted land

≈76% of Waverley’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Waverley ranks #26 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #87 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 Waverley. ABS LGA code 18050. 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 Waverley ranks in Sydney

Waverley ranks #26 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Waverley: ≈76% · rank #26 of 33

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 24. Camden≈73%
  5. 25. Liverpool≈73%
  6. 26. Waverley≈71%
  7. 27. Randwick≈71%
  8. 28. Penrith≈67%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. North Sydney≈53%
  11. 33. Sydney≈33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Blue Mountains≈98%
  2. 2. Wollondilly≈97%
  3. ⋯
  4. 27. Canada Bay≈58%
  5. 28. Randwick≈58%
  6. 29. Waverley≈54%
  7. 30. Liverpool≈53%
  8. 31. Inner West≈52%
  9. 32. North Sydney≈42%
  10. 33. Sydney≈5%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hunters Hill≈58%
  2. 2. Sydney≈54%
  3. ⋯
  4. 7. Willoughby≈23%
  5. 8. Mosman≈23%
  6. 9. Waverley≈19%
  7. 10. Ku-ring-gai≈15%
  8. 11. Hornsby≈15%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Blacktown≈1%
  11. 33. Blue Mountains≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 24. Parramatta≈78%
  5. 25. Woollahra≈77%
  6. 26. Waverley≈76%
  7. 27. Liverpool≈75%
  8. 28. Bayside (NSW)≈75%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Sydney≈62%
  11. 33. North Sydney≈59%

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

Suburbs in Waverley

8 suburbs sit inside this council.

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

  1. Dover Heights≈99%
  2. Bronte≈99%
  3. Queens Park (NSW)≈90%
  4. North Bondi≈90%
  5. Waverley (NSW)≈81%
  6. Bondi Junction≈60%
  7. Bondi≈55%
  8. Bondi Beach≈45%
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Sydney context

Waverley ranks #26 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

Waverley’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Waverley

  1. Low Density ResidentialR24 km²54.4%
  2. Medium Density ResidentialR33 km²39.3%
  3. High Density ResidentialR4<1 km²2.0%
  4. Commercial CentreE2<1 km²1.2%
  5. Mixed UseMU1<1 km²3.1%
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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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