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Dorset planning zones

The 22 planning zones mapped in Dorset, Tasmania, which registers cover the council and which map nothing here. No report is sold for Tasmania.

You cannot buy a report for an address in Dorset. A report is on sale for every New South Wales address and Brisbane, Gold Coast and Moreton Bay in Queensland. Tasmania is not among them, and nothing on this page is a step towards buying one. What follows is what we hold, published so it can be read for nothing.

This page is about the Tasmanian planning registers and nothing else. It does not describe the hazard layers we hold for Tasmania, which are mapped as one extent per hazard for the whole State rather than council by council, and it carries no recorded crime: we hold none for Tasmania, and a heading with nothing under it reads as though there is none to hold.

The local instrument the register names here is Dorset Local Provisions Schedule.

Planning zones mapped in Dorset

The 22 distinct zones the register maps here, and how many separate areas each is mapped over. The map reference is the scheme’s own — a Tasmanian zone has no short alphabetic code, so the reference and the name are both carried rather than one being flattened into the other. Zone names are as the register publishes them, capitals and all. This counts mapped areas in the register, not properties: a zone over one large polygon may cover more land than a zone over fifty.

Map referenceName Mapped areas
109.21Agriculture 67
109.27Community Purpose 11
109.23Environmental Management 115
109.15General Business 2
109.19General Industrial 4
109.8General Residential 11
109.22Landscape Conservation 8
109.18Light Industrial 3
109.10Low Density Residential 7
109.24Major Tourism 1
109.29Open Space 11
109.31Particular Purpose 5
109.25Port and Marine 1
109.28Recreation 14
109.20Rural 37
109.11.1Rural Living — Rural Living Zone A 14
109.11.2Rural Living — Rural Living Zone B 7
109.11.3Rural Living — Rural Living Zone C 5
109.11.4Rural Living — Rural Living Zone D 3
109.13Urban Mixed Use 6
109.26Utilities 18
109.12Village 19

Local controls named in the Dorset scheme

Specific Area Plans, Local Area Objectives, precincts and site-specific qualifications, under the names the scheme gives them. These are local instruments: they exist in Dorset and generally nowhere else, and a zone lookup alone does not show them.

ControlKindMapped areas
Branxholm and Legerwood Industry Specific Area PlanSpecific Area Plan 3
Town Centre Parking Specific Area PlanSpecific Area Plan 3
1952 Bridport Road, BridportSite Specific Qualifications 1
2 Main Street, BridportSite Specific Qualifications 1
37 George Street, ScottsdaleSite Specific Qualifications 1
54 Ringarooma Road, ScottsdaleSite Specific Qualifications 1
96 King Street, ScottsdaleSite Specific Qualifications 1
Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm Specific Area PlanSpecific Area Plan 1
Bridport Main Street Central Specific Area PlanSpecific Area Plan 1
Port Hills Specific Area PlanSpecific Area Plan 1

Registers that cover Dorset

6 of the 11 Tasmanian planning registers we hold map Dorset. Land in this council that is not in one of them has been assessed against it.

RegisterIn DorsetLast updated
Natural Assets Code
Priority vegetation areas, waterway and coastal protection areas and future coastal refugia areas.
6,085 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Zoning
The zone for every parcel under this council’s Local Provisions Schedule. It is the authorised planning map under s.80M of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993, not a derived or indicative layer.
369 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Safeguarding of Airports Code
Obstacle limitation surfaces, public safety areas and noise exposure areas around airports.
43 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Scenic Protection Code
Scenic protection areas and scenic road corridors.
43 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tasmanian Planning Scheme - General Overlays
Specific Area Plans, Local Area Objectives, Precincts and Defined Areas and Site-Specific Qualifications — the locally named controls that a zone alone does not show.
14 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Protection Code
Corridors either side of transmission infrastructure within which use and development is controlled.
7 mapped areas 18 January 2023

Registers that leave Dorset unresolved

We hold 5 further Tasmanian planning registers, and a search of them in Dorset settles nothing. That is not a finding about the land.

5 of them name the councils they map, and none names Dorset: this council never published that control, so there is nothing here to search.

RegisterIn DorsetLast updated
Attenuation Code
Attenuation areas around activities whose emissions constrain sensitive uses nearby.
publishes nothing for this council
Potentially Contaminated Land Code
Land recorded as potentially contaminated by a previous use. Land absent from it has not been recorded, which is not a finding that it is clean.
publishes nothing for this council
Local Historical Heritage Code
Local heritage places and precincts, and places of archaeological potential.
publishes nothing for this council
Parking and Sustainable Transport Code
Parking precincts and areas with their own parking provision requirements.
publishes nothing for this council
Road and Railway Assets Code
Areas beside roads and railways within which access and development is controlled.
publishes nothing for this council

What an absence means in Dorset

For the 6 registers above that cover Dorset, land that is not in the register was assessed and is outside the mapped area. That is a finding about the land, and it is worth something.

For the 5 registers that leave Dorset unresolved, a search returns unmapped. The register does not settle the question for this land. It is not a finding that the land is unaffected, and it must never be read as one.

Those two sentences are different answers and this is the point of the whole product. Reversing them — reporting a register that covers nothing as a clean result — is the failure these pages are built to make impossible.

Sources

Reproduced verbatim, as the licences require.

Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Zoning from theLIST ©State of Tasmania Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

Tasmanian Planning Scheme - General Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

Council names and boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021 — Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Where a report can be bought

A report is on sale for every New South Wales address and Brisbane, Gold Coast and Moreton Bay in Queensland. The check is free and tells you which registers cover an address before you pay anything; a report is $9.90 including GST, paid once.

Check a New South Wales address

Not Dorset. There is nothing to check here yet, and offering you a box that will not answer would be worse than saying so.

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