The 25 planning zones mapped in Launceston, 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 Launceston. 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 Launceston Local Provisions Schedule.
The 25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 120.21 | Agriculture | 49 |
| 120.16 | Central Business | 2 |
| 120.17 | Commercial | 43 |
| 120.27 | Community Purpose | 72 |
| 120.23 | Environmental Management | 90 |
| 120.30 | Future Urban | 1 |
| 120.15 | General Business | 4 |
| 120.19 | General Industrial | 5 |
| 120.8 | General Residential | 101 |
| 120.9 | Inner Residential | 39 |
| 120.22 | Landscape Conservation | 15 |
| 120.18 | Light Industrial | 39 |
| 120.14 | Local Business | 65 |
| 120.10 | Low Density Residential | 43 |
| 120.29 | Open Space | 200 |
| 120.31 | Particular Purpose | 12 |
| 120.28 | Recreation | 31 |
| 120.20 | Rural | 116 |
| 120.11.1 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone A | 10 |
| 120.11.2 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone B | 17 |
| 120.11.3 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone C | 7 |
| 120.11.4 | Rural Living — Rural Living Zone D | 1 |
| 120.13 | Urban Mixed Use | 18 |
| 120.26 | Utilities | 50 |
| 120.12 | Village | 7 |
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 Launceston and generally nowhere else, and a zone lookup alone does not show them.
| Control | Kind | Mapped areas |
|---|---|---|
| Flood Risk Precincts | Precincts and Defined Areas | 73 |
| Cataract Gorge Management Specific Area Plan Local Area Objective | Local Area Objectives | 39 |
| Forestry Area Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 30 |
| Invermay/Inveresk Flood Inundation Specific Area Plan Local Area Objective | Local Area Objectives | 16 |
| Particular Purpose Zone – Inveresk Site | Local Area Objectives | 5 |
| Flood Levee Protected Areas Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 4 |
| Development Potential Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 3 |
| Cataract Gorge Subdivision Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 2 |
| Particular Purpose Zone – Boags Brewery | Local Area Objectives | 2 |
| Particular Purpose Zone – Franklin Village | Local Area Objectives | 2 |
| 18 Connector Park Drive, Kings Meadows | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| 213-215 Wellington St Launceston | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| 217-229 Wellington St Launceston | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| 237-247 Wellington Street | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| 40 Ann Street, Launceston | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| 6-8, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19 Goodman Court, Invermay | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| Cataract Gorge Management Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Central Area Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Drivers Run Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Gorge Hotel Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Hillary Street Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Launceston Plaza Retail Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Mount Stuart Drive Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Particular Purpose Zone – North Bank Silos | Local Area Objectives | 1 |
| Raglan Street Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Rose Lane, South Launceston | Site Specific Qualifications | 1 |
| Southern Gateway Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| The Green Specific Area Plan | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
| Western Hillside SAP. Alterations of electronic planning map made under s.80O of LUPAA | Specific Area Plan | 1 |
10 of the 11 Tasmanian planning registers we hold map Launceston. Land in this council that is not in one of them has been assessed against it.
| Register | In Launceston | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| Local Historical Heritage Code Local heritage places and precincts, and places of archaeological potential. |
1,997 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| Natural Assets Code Priority vegetation areas, waterway and coastal protection areas and future coastal refugia areas. |
1,941 mapped areas | 14 September 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. |
1,037 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| 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. |
195 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| Scenic Protection Code Scenic protection areas and scenic road corridors. |
53 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| Safeguarding of Airports Code Obstacle limitation surfaces, public safety areas and noise exposure areas around airports. |
26 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Protection Code Corridors either side of transmission infrastructure within which use and development is controlled. |
26 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| Attenuation Code Attenuation areas around activities whose emissions constrain sensitive uses nearby. |
15 mapped areas | 14 September 2022 |
| 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. |
1 mapped area | 14 September 2022 |
| Parking and Sustainable Transport Code Parking precincts and areas with their own parking provision requirements. |
1 mapped area | 14 September 2022 |
We hold 1 further Tasmanian planning register, and a search of it in Launceston settles nothing. That is not a finding about the land.
1 of them names the councils they map, and it names Launceston: this council never published that control, so there is nothing here to search.
| Register | In Launceston | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| Road and Railway Assets Code Areas beside roads and railways within which access and development is controlled. |
publishes nothing for this council | — |
For the 10 registers above that cover Launceston, 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 1 register that leaves Launceston 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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