Zones provide guidance on what can happen in an area by setting out the policies and rules for certain classes of development. Zones that apply in the Campbelltown Council Area are listed below with a brief description. More detailed information can be found here: PlanSA Resources.

The Zone Map for Campbelltown Council can be found here: Council Zone Map.

General Neighbourhood Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone encourages low-rise, low and medium-density housing that supports a range of needs and lifestyles
  located within easy reach of services and facilities. Employment and community service use contribute to making the
  neighbourhood a convenient place to live without compromising residential amenity.

What uses are envisaged?

• This zone is primarily accommodates residential development including dwelling additions and associated minor
  structures like sheds, garages and shade structures. There is also scope for community and small-scale commercial activities within the zone, but acceptability depends on the circumstances, scale and locational factors that aim to ensure residential amenity is retained.

Zone requirements at a glance

• This zone provides assessment criteria to facilitate low to medium-density housing that is well designed and provides a positive contribution to local areas.

Suburban Neighbourhood Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone envisages low density housing consistent with the existing local context and development pattern. Services and community facilities contribute to making the neighbourhood a convenient place to live without compromising residential amenity and character.

What uses are envisaged?

• This zone primarily accommodates housing (dwellings, retirement facilities and supported accommodation) and
  supporting services and facilities that preserve a low density residential character. Some home-based business and other forms of non-residential development (community facility, educational establishment, shops, office and consulting rooms) are supported in the zone where it is compatible with low density suburban character and amenity.

Zone requirements at a glance

• This zone provides assessment criteria to facilitate low density housing that is well designed and provides a positive
  contribution to local areas.

Hills Neighbourhood Zone

• This zone is intended to accommodate a range of retail facilities, offices, consulting rooms, and cultural, community, public administration, entertainment, educational religious and residential facilities to serve the community and visitors within the surrounding district.

Zone outcome

• This zone ensures development provides a complementary transition to adjacent natural and rural landscapes. Low  density housing minimises disturbance to natural landforms and existing vegetation to mitigate the visible extent of  buildings, earthworks and retaining walls.
• The zone applies to areas with steep topography such as existing ‘Hills’ or ‘Foothills’ zones/policy areas, and often at the interface with the Hills Face Zone.

What uses are envisaged?

• This zone is primarily accommodates residential development including dwelling additions and associated minor
  structures like sheds, garages and retaining walls. There is also scope for community and small-scale commercial activities within the zone, but acceptability depends on the circumstances, scale and locational factors that aim to ensure residential amenity is retained.

Zone requirements at a glance

• This zone provides assessment criteria to accommodate residential development that is sensitive to the natural topography and compatible with the housing pattern in the locality.

Established Neighbourhood Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone envisages a range of housing types that respond to housing preferences, with new buildings sympathetic to the predominant built form character and development patterns.

What uses are envisaged?

• This zone is primarily accommodates residential development including dwelling additions and associated minor
  structures like sheds, garages and shade structures.
• There is also scope for community and small-scale commercial activities within the zone, but acceptability depends on the circumstances, scale and locational factors that aim to ensure residential amenity is retained.

Zone requirements at a glance

• This zone provides assessment criteria to reinforce a desired local context and includes the use of Technical and
  Numeric Variations (TNVs) that respond to more nuanced local conditions across the zone.
• Spatially applied TNVs address side building setbacks, building height, dwelling site areas, site frontages and site coverage, which combine to help determine whether development is generally in-keeping with the desired local character and prevailing residential amenity.
• The Deemed-to-Satisfy (DTS)/Designated Performance Feature (DPF) criteria provide numeric guidance on minimum standards; but where development is performance assessed on its merits, these criteria provide only one way to satisfy the performance outcome.

Urban Neighbourhood Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone envisages a mixed-use area comprising residential, retail, office, commercial and civic land uses in compact and higher-density growth or regeneration areas. The zone has been applied in urban areas to support significant opportunities to increase the density of development around a major public transit node, corridor, or a significant place of interest (e.g. West Lakes, Bowden, Seaton, Tonsley, Bedford Park and the Paradise Interchange.)

Suburban Activity Centre Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone encourages active retail precincts that includes neighbourhood-scale shopping, business, entertainment and recreation facilities. It is a focus for business and community life and provides for most daily and weekly shopping needs of the community.

Local Activity Centre Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone envisages a range of small-scale shops, offices, business, health and community facilities to provide daily  services to and support walkable neighbourhoods. The zone typically includes areas comprising a small cluster of commercial and retail businesses including small-scale shops, offices, business, health and community facilities to provide daily services to and support walkable neighbourhoods.

Conservation Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone seeks the conservation and enhancement of the natural environment and natural ecological processes
  for their historic, scientific, landscape, habitat, biodiversity, carbon storage and cultural values. It includes provision of opportunities for the public to experience these through low-impact recreational and tourism development. It provides for a limited mix of development/land uses, including signage related to conservation and tourist information, small-scale
  recreational facilities/amenities, camp grounds and structures for conservation purposes.

Where it applies:

• This zone applies to conservation parks (parts of Black Hill) and reserves under state and federal government ownership, and privately owned land where coastal or riverine processes occur, and includes areas of protected scrub, lakes, etc.

Hills Face Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone seeks to preserve, enhance and re-establish the natural character of Adelaide’s landscape backdrop. The zone prevents urban areas from extending into the western slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges; seeks to preserve biodiversity and restore locally indigenous vegetation and fauna, and contributes to the provision of areas for open space and passive recreation.

Where it applies:

• The natural landscape to the east and south of metropolitan Adelaide, including Shepherds Hill, Cleland and Waterfall Gully.

Suburban Business Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone provides for a mixture of commercial, light industrial, shop and residential land uses. Development will be designed and sited to minimise impacts on adjoining land uses.

Where it applies:

• Areas with a mixture of light industrial land uses, interspersed with dwellings.

Open Space Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone seeks areas of natural and landscaped open space to provide visual relief to the built environment for the  enjoyment of the community.

Where it applies:

• This zone applies to current open space zones/policy areas/precincts, which accommodate sporting ovals, parks, etc

Employment Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone supports a diverse range of low-impact, light industrial, commercial (including bulky goods) and business  activities that complement the role of other zones with significant industrial, shopping and business activities.

Where it applies:

• Existing areas with a mix of industrial and commercial land uses, including large-format retail showrooms.

Community Facilities Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone provides for a range of community and institutional type developments. These include social, health, welfare, educational and recreation facilities that provide a service to the local community, and larger scale community facilities that provide a service to the wider community and beyond, such as, schools and hospitals.

Where it applies:

• This zone applies to existing community zones/policy areas/precincts, accommodating uses such as schools and hospitals

Urban Corridor (Business) Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone supports a mix of medium and high-density urban development along established strategic or mixed-use  road corridors. The primary aim of the zone is to provide for a broad range of non-residential development typical  of existing mixed-use zones on main road corridors. Non-residential development will be located at ground level in  mixed-use or individual buildings and will be supported by a diverse range of dwellings at ground or upper floor levels (in either mixed-use or stand-alone buildings).
• The key difference between this zone and the other Urban Corridor Zones is the larger range of non-residential land  uses envisaged (including petrol stations, light / service industries, service trade premises and warehouses). The zone generally applies to existing commercial areas typically along main roads; e.g., Main North Road, Lower North East Road, adjacent Port Road – Thebarton and Anzac Highway - Keswick.

Urban Corridor (Main Street) Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone supports a mix of medium and high-density urban development along main road corridors, which display main street qualities (typified by highly activated, fine-grain, narrow building frontages with frequent pedestrian entry points) and provide both daytime and night-time activation.
• The zone has been used along established commercial and retail precincts that have a main street character; e.g., Unley, Prospect, Henley Beach and Magill roads.

Urban Employment Zone

• This zone provides for the establishment of business clusters that create opportunities for innovation, start up and the growth of new and existing businesses.

Urban Corridor (Living) Zone

Zone outcome

• This zone supports the development of high-intensity, vibrant, mixed use corridors, which include a variety of new housing choices along with a range of complementary retail and commercial activities. Development will generally have a greater proportion of housing than retail or commercial activities. Non-residential forms of development will typically be located on ground and lower building levels.
• The zone appears adjacent to a number of main road corridors; e.g., Fullarton Road, Anzac Highway, Henley Beach Road, Prospect Road and Lower North East Road.