NRZ1 — Neighbourhood Residential Zone
The most restrictive residential zone, applied where existing neighbourhood character is to be preserved. New development is expected to respect the prevailing single-dwelling scale.
Built form
Mandatory maximum building height 9 m / 2 storeys; minimum garden-area requirement (25–35% by lot size); ResCode with typically tighter schedule variations on setbacks and site coverage.
Typically allowed
- Single dwellings and extensions
- A second dwelling or unit development with a permit (subject to strict character/garden controls)
- Home-based businesses
What is allowed on a particular site depends on the council’s schedule to this zone and any overlays. Check the scheme; we make no determination.
Typically not allowed
- Apartment buildings beyond the 2-storey scale
- Industry, warehousing and most commercial uses
What to look at
Best suited to buyers wanting stable, low-scale streetscapes. Development or subdivision potential is limited — do not assume townhouse yield without specific advice.
Source: Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 32.09 (Neighbourhood Residential Zone); DTP planning.vic.gov.au
Councils that map NRZ1
- Ararat1 mapped area
- Ballarat5 mapped areas
- Baw Baw2 mapped areas
- Bayside1 mapped area
- Boroondara16 mapped areas
- Brimbank41 mapped areas
- Cardinia38 mapped areas
- Casey1 mapped area
- Colac Otway3 mapped areas
- Corangamite13 mapped areas
- Darebin29 mapped areas
- Glen Eira25 mapped areas
- Golden Plains1 mapped area
- Greater Dandenong18 mapped areas
- Greater Geelong1 mapped area
- Hobsons Bay4 mapped areas
- Hume1 mapped area
- Indigo2 mapped areas
- Kingston4 mapped areas
- Queenscliffe10 mapped areas
This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map NRZ1 — we simply cannot say.
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This page reports what is mapped in published VIC planning data, as we last synced it on 23 May 2026. It is general information, not planning advice, and it makes no assessment of any proposal. Whether an approval is needed, and what a council decides, are matters for the responsible authority — check the council’s own planning scheme and contact them directly.