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NRZ8 — Neighbourhood Residential Zone

What the NRZ8 zone means in Victoria, and which councils in our corpus map it. This is a plain-language summary of published material — it is not planning advice and it decides nothing about any particular site.

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 NRZ8

This list covers the councils in our corpus only. A council we hold no data for may also map NRZ8 — we simply cannot say.

Check what is mapped at a specific address →

This page reports what is mapped in published VIC planning data, as we last synced it on 22 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.