The 21 planning zones mapped in George Town, 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 George Town. 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 George Town Local Provisions Schedule.
The 21 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 reference | Name | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|
| 111.21 | Agriculture | 24 |
| 111.27 | Community Purpose | 14 |
| 111.23 | Environmental Management | 29 |
| 111.30 | Future Urban | 3 |
| 111.15 | General Business | 2 |
| 111.19 | General Industrial | 11 |
| 111.8 | General Residential | 9 |
| 111.22 | Landscape Conservation | 2 |
| 111.18 | Light Industrial | 4 |
| 111.14 | Local Business | 10 |
| 111.10 | Low Density Residential | 17 |
| 111.29 | Open Space | 24 |
| 111.31 | Particular Purpose | 1 |
| 111.25 | Port and Marine | 3 |
| 111.28 | Recreation | 8 |
| 111.20 | Rural | 45 |
| 111.11.1 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone A | 6 |
| 111.11.2 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone B | 10 |
| 111.11.3 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone C | 3 |
| 111.11.4 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone D | 2 |
| 111.26 | Utilities | 15 |
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 George Town and generally nowhere else, and a zone lookup alone does not show them.
| Control | Kind | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|
| Brownrigg Street, Hillwood folios | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| East Tamar Highway, Mount Direction folio | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| Point Effingham Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
8 of the 11 Tasmanian planning registers we hold map George Town. Land in this council that is not in one of them has been assessed against it.
| Register | In George Town | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Assets Code Priority vegetation areas, waterway and coastal protection areas and future coastal refugia areas. |
1,583 mapped areas | 4 October 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. |
242 mapped areas | 4 October 2023 |
| Scenic Protection Code Scenic protection areas and scenic road corridors. |
21 mapped areas | 4 October 2023 |
| Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Protection Code Corridors either side of transmission infrastructure within which use and development is controlled. |
8 mapped areas | 4 October 2023 |
| Safeguarding of Airports Code Obstacle limitation surfaces, public safety areas and noise exposure areas around airports. |
6 mapped areas | 4 October 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. |
3 mapped areas | 4 October 2023 |
| Parking and Sustainable Transport Code Parking precincts and areas with their own parking provision requirements. |
1 mapped area | 4 October 2023 |
| Road and Railway Assets Code Areas beside roads and railways within which access and development is controlled. |
1 mapped area | 4 October 2023 |
We hold 3 further Tasmanian planning registers, and a search of them in George Town settles nothing. That is not a finding about the land.
3 of them name the councils they map, and none names George Town: this council never published that control, so there is nothing here to search.
| Register | In George Town | Last 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 | — |
For the 8 registers above that cover George Town, 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 3 registers that leave George Town 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.
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.
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Check a New South Wales addressNot George Town. There is nothing to check here yet, and offering you a box that will not answer would be worse than saying so.