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Nightcliff

0 residential parcels covering 85 ha.

Council: Darwin

Highly restricted land

≈85% of Nightcliff’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Nightcliff ranks #28 of 30 suburbs in Darwin, and #1218 of 1,972 capital city suburbs nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Nightcliff. ABS SAL code 70210. 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 Nightcliff ranks in Darwin

Nightcliff ranks #28 of 30 Darwin suburbs for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Nightcliff: ≈85% · rank #28 of 30

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 26. Stuart Park≈86%
  5. 27. Rapid Creek≈85%
  6. 28. Nightcliff≈85%
  7. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  8. 30. Darwin City≈2%

Low-density

  1. 1. Wulagi≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈99%
  3. ⋯
  4. 22. Rapid Creek≈75%
  5. 23. Bakewell≈69%
  6. 24. Nightcliff≈62%
  7. 25. Johnston≈59%
  8. 26. Fannie Bay≈56%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Zuccoli≈22%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈0%

Heritage

  1. 1. Alawa≈0%
  2. 2. Anula≈0%
  3. ⋯
  4. 20. Moulden≈0%
  5. 21. Nakara≈0%
  6. 22. Nightcliff≈0%
  7. 23. Rapid Creek≈0%
  8. 24. Rosebery (NT)≈0%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Wulagi≈0%
  11. 30. Zuccoli≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 26. Stuart Park≈86%
  5. 27. Rapid Creek≈85%
  6. 28. Nightcliff≈85%
  7. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  8. 30. Darwin City≈2%

Source: Nightcliff ranked against other Darwin suburbs on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Darwin context

Nightcliff ranks #28 of 30 suburbs in Darwin for highly restricted residential land.

Council:
  1. Alawa ≈100%
  2. Anula ≈100%
  3. Bellamack ≈100%
  4. Jingili ≈100%
  5. Leanyer ≈100%
  6. Lyons (NT) ≈100%
  7. Wulagi ≈100%
  8. Moil ≈100%
  9. Malak ≈98%
  10. Durack (NT) ≈98%
  11. Zuccoli ≈98%
  12. Nakara ≈98%
  13. Wanguri ≈97%
  14. Rosebery (NT) ≈97%
  15. Karama ≈97%
  16. Woodroffe ≈96%
  17. Tiwi ≈96%
  18. Bakewell ≈96%
  19. Moulden ≈95%
  20. Gunn ≈95%
  21. Gray (NT) ≈95%
  22. Millner ≈93%
  23. Driver ≈92%
  24. Fannie Bay ≈88%
  25. Johnston ≈87%
  26. Stuart Park ≈86%
  27. Rapid Creek ≈85%
  28. Nightcliff ≈85%
  29. Coconut Grove ≈80%
  30. Darwin City ≈2%
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Detailed zoning map

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

Every residential zone in Nightcliff

  1. Low Density ResidentialLR1 km²61.5%
  2. Low-Medium Density ResidentialLMR<1 km²23.2%
  3. Medium Density ResidentialMR<1 km²9.2%
  4. High Density ResidentialHR<1 km²1.3%
  5. CommercialC<1 km²4.8%
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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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