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Dorset: planning zones, bushfire and flood codes

The 22 planning zones mapped in Dorset, Tasmania, the hazard codes counted address by address, and which registers cover the council.

A report can be bought for most addresses in Dorset that are in the state address register, $9.90 including GST, paid once. This page is the free part: what the Tasmanian planning registers hold for the council. The report is for one address, and reads the planning, heritage and hazard registers listed below for it. Check an address in Dorset first: the check is free and states the total before you pay.

What this page covers

This page covers Dorset’s part of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme: its zones, its codes, and the hazard codes counted below as its Local Provisions Schedule maps them. Declared landslip areas, and land the building rules treat as bushfire-prone where the map does not show it, are not counted here. This page 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.

Bushfire, flood and other hazard codes in Dorset

What the government maps show. Not a risk rating.

49.7%of addresses on a lot at least partly in a bushfire-prone area4.9%of addresses on a lot at least partly in a flood-prone area16.0%of addresses on a lot at least partly in a landslip hazard band2.3%of addresses on a lot at least partly in a coastal inundation hazard band or investigation area2.5%of addresses on a lot at least partly in a coastal erosion hazard band or investigation area
Share of addresses on land each map shows, counted among the addresses where that map applies: what the government maps show, not a risk rating. Hatched: no map covers most of the council (its Local Provisions Schedule maps none, or the planning scheme that applies is not one these counts cover); dotted: a map covers only part of the council, or records its own classes, so no share. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.
61
addresses with a bushfire-prone area on part of the lot, not at the address point
In Dorset, a check of the address point alone would report them as outside the map. Our report tests the whole lot. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Bushfire-prone areas

49.7%
Base of the share: 4,658 addresses on land the map covers
  • 2,256 on the map at the address point
  • 61 on part of the lot only
  • 149 at the edge only
  • 2,192 not on the map

The planning scheme and the building rules also treat land within 100 m of 1 ha or more of bushfire-prone vegetation as bushfire-prone, whether or not this map shows it. See theLIST. Bushfire-prone areas by council, on our map.

How this is counted

2,317 of 4,658 addresses (49.7%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as a bushfire-prone area under the Bushfire-Prone Areas Code, in the council’s Local Provisions Schedule. On 2,273 of 4,588 lots · 61 on part of the lot only · 149 touch only the edge. The planning scheme and the building rules also treat land within 100 m of 1 ha or more of bushfire-prone vegetation as bushfire-prone, whether or not this map shows it.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Flood-prone areas

4.9%
Base of the share: 4,658 addresses on land the map covers
  • 83 on the map at the address point
  • 146 on part of the lot only
  • 32 at the edge only
  • 4,397 not on the map

A flood-prone area is a planning map, not a flood model: overland flow is often not in it. The code can also apply to land this map does not show, where the council has other evidence the land can flood. See theLIST. Flood-prone areas by council, on our map.

How this is counted

229 of 4,658 addresses (4.9%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as a flood-prone area under the Flood-Prone Areas Hazard Code, in the council’s Local Provisions Schedule. On 228 of 4,588 lots · 146 on part of the lot only · 32 touch only the edge. A flood-prone area is a planning map, not a flood model: overland flow is often not in it. The code can also apply to land this map does not show, where the council has other evidence the land can flood.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Landslip hazard bands

16.0%
Base of the share: 4,658 addresses on land the map covers
  • 130 on the map at the address point
  • 614 on part of the lot only
  • 146 at the edge only
  • 3,768 not on the map

By the most severe band on the lot: Medium 188; Low 556. Every band counts, Low to High. Declared landslip areas under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 are a separate register and are not part of this count. See theLIST. Landslip hazard bands by council, on our map.

How this is counted

744 of 4,658 addresses (16.0%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as a landslip hazard band under the Landslip Hazard Code, in the council’s Local Provisions Schedule. By the most severe band on the lot: Medium 188; Low 556. On 733 of 4,588 lots · 614 on part of the lot only · 146 touch only the edge. Every band counts, Low to High. Declared landslip areas under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 are a separate register and are not part of this count.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Coastal inundation

2.3%
Base of the share: 4,658 addresses on land the map covers
  • 48 on the map at the address point
  • 58 on part of the lot only
  • 6 at the edge only
  • 4,546 not on the map

By the most severe band on the lot: High 12; Medium 40; Low 15; investigation area 39. Every band counts, and so does an investigation area: land where the band has not yet been set, not a band lower than Low. The code plans for sea level rise. See theLIST. Coastal inundation by council, on our map.

How this is counted

106 of 4,658 addresses (2.3%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as a coastal inundation hazard band or investigation area under the Coastal Inundation Hazard Code, in the council’s Local Provisions Schedule. By the most severe band on the lot: High 12; Medium 40; Low 15; investigation area 39. On 105 of 4,588 lots · 58 on part of the lot only · 6 touch only the edge. Every band counts, and so does an investigation area: land where the band has not yet been set, not a band lower than Low. The code plans for sea level rise.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Coastal erosion

2.5%
Base of the share: 4,658 addresses on land the map covers
  • 56 on the map at the address point
  • 62 on part of the lot only
  • 18 at the edge only
  • 4,522 not on the map

By the most severe band on the lot: High 2; Medium 52; Low 26; investigation area 38. Every band counts, and so does an investigation area: land where the band has not yet been set, not a band lower than Low. See theLIST. Coastal erosion by council, on our map.

How this is counted

118 of 4,658 addresses (2.5%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as a coastal erosion hazard band or investigation area under the Coastal Erosion Hazard Code, in the council’s Local Provisions Schedule. By the most severe band on the lot: High 2; Medium 52; Low 26; investigation area 38. On 112 of 4,588 lots · 62 on part of the lot only · 18 touch only the edge. Every band counts, and so does an investigation area: land where the band has not yet been set, not a band lower than Low.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 63 of 23 October 2026.Source: Tasmanian Planning Scheme - Code Overlays from theLIST ©State of Tasmania (CC BY 3.0 AU); addresses and lots from theLIST; council boundaries: ABS (CC BY 4.0). Licences: CC BY 3.0 AU, CC BY 4.0. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

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How these are counted

Counted from every address in our Tasmanian build (each LIST address whose land could be identified), in build 63 of 23 October 2026, out of the addresses on land each register covers; a share is given only where the register covers nine in ten of the council’s addresses. Addresses, not homes: an apartment building is many addresses on one lot, and a vacant block is one. “Part of the lot” counts land, not buildings: the mapped area may not reach the house. A lot the map touches only at the edge, within the map’s accuracy, is shown as “Check” in a report and is counted in the base but not as on the map, so a share can be low by up to the edge count in its row. These are counts of what the government maps show, by our method; they are not a risk rating, and a council’s own count of “properties” may not match them. See why unmapped is not clear.

Counts derived by WattleAddr from these registers, by our method. Addresses: LIST Address Points from theLIST ©State of Tasmania. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Lots: LIST Cadastral Parcels from theLIST ©State of Tasmania. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Zones, which decide whose Local Provisions Schedule applies: 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/; Hazard codes: 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/; Council boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Address and parcel data: Land Tasmania (Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania), the creator. Tasmanian Planning Scheme data: Tasmanian Planning Commission, custodian, distributed by Land Tasmania through theLIST. Used under the licence named in each notice; none of them has reviewed or endorsed this report. The same holds for the counts on this page, which we derived: neither has reviewed or endorsed them. Licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia for theLIST data, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 for the council boundaries, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Which of our 27 Tasmanian planning registers map Dorset

20 of 27 cover Dorset. Solid: the register maps this council, so land here that is not in it is outside the mapped area. That is a finding about the land, and it is worth something. Hatched: the register publishes nothing for this council, so 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. Reversing these is the failure the whole product is built to prevent.Counted and grouped by WattleAddr from the registers. Sources, verbatim: 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/. Proclaimed Landslip Areas (Mineral Resources Tasmania) © Mineral Resources Tasmania Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. Tasmanian Heritage Register: Heritage Tasmania - the LIST © State of Tasmania Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

Planning zones mapped in Dorset

22 zones in use

  • Agriculture
  • Community Purpose
  • Environmental Management
  • General Business
  • General Industrial
  • General Residential
  • Landscape Conservation
  • Light Industrial
  • Low Density Residential
  • Major Tourism
  • Open Space
  • Particular Purpose
  • Port and Marine
  • Recreation
  • Rural
  • Rural Living — Rural Living Zone A
  • Rural Living — Rural Living Zone B
  • Rural Living — Rural Living Zone C
  • Rural Living — Rural Living Zone D
  • Urban Mixed Use
  • Utilities
  • Village
One tile per zone, A to Z, as the register names them. Not proportional: a count of zones, not of land or properties. Register updated 18 January 2023.Counted and grouped by WattleAddr from the register. 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/.

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.

The zones as a table, with mapped areas
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.

Site Specific Qualifications

  • 2 Main Street, Bridport 1
  • 37 George Street, Scottsdale 1
  • 54 Ringarooma Road, Scottsdale 1
  • 96 King Street, Scottsdale 1
  • 1952 Bridport Road, Bridport 1

Specific Area Plan

  • Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm Specific Area Plan 1
  • Branxholm and Legerwood Industry Specific Area Plan 3
  • Bridport Main Street Central Specific Area Plan 1
  • Port Hills Specific Area Plan 1
  • Town Centre Parking Specific Area Plan 3
Grouped by kind, A to Z within each; the small number is mapped areas in the register, not land. Register updated 18 January 2023.Counted and grouped by WattleAddr from the register. 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/.
The local controls as a table
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

20 of the 27 Tasmanian planning registers we hold map Dorset. Land in this council that is not in one of them is outside its mapped area, and that is a finding.

The 20 covering registers as a table, with what each maps
RegisterIn DorsetLast updated
Tas landslip low 24,825 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas landslip medium 7,475 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Natural Assets Code
Priority vegetation areas, waterway and coastal protection areas and future coastal refugia areas.		 6,085 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal inundation low 794 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal inundation medium 535 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
Tas flood prone 114 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal inundation high 77 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal erosion low 48 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal inundation investigation 46 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
Tas coastal erosion high 43 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal erosion investigation 38 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Tas coastal erosion medium 32 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
Tas bushfire prone 4 mapped areas 18 January 2023
Declared landslip areas (Mineral Resources Tasmania)
Land declared an A or B landslip area by order of the Minister under Part 9A of the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995. The order is recorded on the title. Mineral Resources Tasmania describes A areas as land where no more development is allowed, and B areas as land where development is allowed under strict controls; ask Mineral Resources Tasmania what approval any works need. Every current declaration in the State; the boundaries are indicative, not surveyed.		 one list for the whole State 23 October 2026
Tasmanian Heritage Register
Places entered in the Register under the Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995, kept by the Tasmanian Heritage Council. One list for the whole State, separate from each council’s local heritage listing: a place is on it or it is not.		 one list for the whole State 25 September 2026

Registers that leave Dorset unresolved

We hold 7 further Tasmanian planning registers, and a search of them in Dorset settles nothing. That is not a finding about the land.

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

The 7 registers that settle nothing here, as a table
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 —
Tas landslip high publishes nothing for this council —
Tas landslip medium active publishes nothing for this council —

Tasmanian council areas next to Dorset

The other Tasmanian council areas that share a stretch of land boundary with Dorset, in alphabetical order; councils across the State border or across open water are not listed. Sharing a boundary says nothing about hazards, zoning or crime on either side of it: each page has its own figures. Every council area in Tasmania is on one page.

Neighbours worked out by WattleAddr from the council boundaries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0).

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/.

Proclaimed Landslip Areas (Mineral Resources Tasmania) © Mineral Resources Tasmania Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

Tasmanian Heritage Register: Heritage Tasmania - the LIST © 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.

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