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Housing & Growth for Lismore's Future

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CLOSED: This consultation has concluded at 5pm, Monday 31 October. If you would like to be kept informed of important dates please email Jamie.vaniersel@lismore.nsw.gov.au and request to be added to the mailing list for the Housing and Growth consultation. You will be emailed only in relation to the two draft Strategies in question. Alternatively, please check back here to the ‘key dates’ listed on the righthand side of this page.


In May, 2022, Lismore City Council released a discussion paper that presented a range of recommendations for growth and post-flood recovery. A total of 327 submissions were received after extensive online and face-to-face engagement activities were undertaken. These submissions can be viewed on Starting The Discussion: Building Back Better: https://yoursay.lismore.nsw.gov.au/growth-management-strategy

Council has incorporated this feedback and produced a Draft Growth and Realignment Strategy that sets out potential growth areas for residential, commercial and industrial land, as well as recommending a long term planned retreat from the most high-risk flood affected areas.

In 2021 Council declared an “emergency situation with respect to the lack of housing availability and affordability”; a situation that has been made significantly worse by the loss of houses as a result of the floods. A Draft Affordable and Diverse Housing Strategy has now been prepared that identifies key housing data for Lismore and suggests measures Council can undertake to stimulate additional affordable and medium density housing projects.

These two strategies will guide both the location and type of housing that Lismore Council would like to see in the coming decades and will also ensure suitable flood-free employment land is available to support economic growth.

Growth and Realignment Strategy

The strategy identifies:

  • Land suitable for future residential development close to the existing urban area (Section 2.2)
  • Areas suitable for increasing density (Section 2.3)
  • Area for precinct redevelopment (Section 2.4)
  • Infill and fringe sites suitable for residential development (Section 2.5)
  • Expansions to existing villages through large lot residential or eco-village development (Section 2.6)
  • Land for retail, commercial and industrial development (Section 4)

The Affordable and Diverse Housing Strategy

The strategy looks at the current housing situation and the types of residential development needed for Lismore’s future.

  • Section 3 provides an overview of the key housing issues for Lismore.
  • Sections 4 & 5 outlines the mechanisms available to Councils to influence housing and the range of actions Lismore City Council will undertake.


The Growth and Realignment Strategy has now been adopted. The Affordable and Diverse Housing Strategy will be reported to the March 2023 Council meeting seeking a resolution to be adopted.

CLOSED: This consultation has concluded at 5pm, Monday 31 October. If you would like to be kept informed of important dates please email Jamie.vaniersel@lismore.nsw.gov.au and request to be added to the mailing list for the Housing and Growth consultation. You will be emailed only in relation to the two draft Strategies in question. Alternatively, please check back here to the ‘key dates’ listed on the righthand side of this page.


In May, 2022, Lismore City Council released a discussion paper that presented a range of recommendations for growth and post-flood recovery. A total of 327 submissions were received after extensive online and face-to-face engagement activities were undertaken. These submissions can be viewed on Starting The Discussion: Building Back Better: https://yoursay.lismore.nsw.gov.au/growth-management-strategy

Council has incorporated this feedback and produced a Draft Growth and Realignment Strategy that sets out potential growth areas for residential, commercial and industrial land, as well as recommending a long term planned retreat from the most high-risk flood affected areas.

In 2021 Council declared an “emergency situation with respect to the lack of housing availability and affordability”; a situation that has been made significantly worse by the loss of houses as a result of the floods. A Draft Affordable and Diverse Housing Strategy has now been prepared that identifies key housing data for Lismore and suggests measures Council can undertake to stimulate additional affordable and medium density housing projects.

These two strategies will guide both the location and type of housing that Lismore Council would like to see in the coming decades and will also ensure suitable flood-free employment land is available to support economic growth.

Growth and Realignment Strategy

The strategy identifies:

  • Land suitable for future residential development close to the existing urban area (Section 2.2)
  • Areas suitable for increasing density (Section 2.3)
  • Area for precinct redevelopment (Section 2.4)
  • Infill and fringe sites suitable for residential development (Section 2.5)
  • Expansions to existing villages through large lot residential or eco-village development (Section 2.6)
  • Land for retail, commercial and industrial development (Section 4)

The Affordable and Diverse Housing Strategy

The strategy looks at the current housing situation and the types of residential development needed for Lismore’s future.

  • Section 3 provides an overview of the key housing issues for Lismore.
  • Sections 4 & 5 outlines the mechanisms available to Councils to influence housing and the range of actions Lismore City Council will undertake.


The Growth and Realignment Strategy has now been adopted. The Affordable and Diverse Housing Strategy will be reported to the March 2023 Council meeting seeking a resolution to be adopted.

No further questions are being taken at this time, on this platform.
  • Share Many community members have difficulty navigating Council's GIS system, but want to know impacts of development. Will council publish, in an easily accessible form, the mapping of wildlife corridors, bushfire risk, and watershed features surrounding areas proposed for growth in the strategy, before the close of submissions? on Facebook Share Many community members have difficulty navigating Council's GIS system, but want to know impacts of development. Will council publish, in an easily accessible form, the mapping of wildlife corridors, bushfire risk, and watershed features surrounding areas proposed for growth in the strategy, before the close of submissions? on Twitter Share Many community members have difficulty navigating Council's GIS system, but want to know impacts of development. Will council publish, in an easily accessible form, the mapping of wildlife corridors, bushfire risk, and watershed features surrounding areas proposed for growth in the strategy, before the close of submissions? on Linkedin Email Many community members have difficulty navigating Council's GIS system, but want to know impacts of development. Will council publish, in an easily accessible form, the mapping of wildlife corridors, bushfire risk, and watershed features surrounding areas proposed for growth in the strategy, before the close of submissions? link

    Many community members have difficulty navigating Council's GIS system, but want to know impacts of development. Will council publish, in an easily accessible form, the mapping of wildlife corridors, bushfire risk, and watershed features surrounding areas proposed for growth in the strategy, before the close of submissions?

    Jim Richardson asked over 1 year ago

    Hi Jim, 

    Council are not able to provide separate constraints mapping for each of the 22 sites identified within the draft Growth and Realignment Strategy.

    Previous constraints mapping is available in the current Growth Management Strategy (2015).

    (See maps 6 -14 on pp 33-41).

    https://lismore.nsw.gov.au/files/Lismore_Growth_Management_Strategy_2015-35.pdf

    If you are after more detailed map information for a particular site, Council staff can assist with navigating the GIS system. Please phone 6625 0500 for assistance or to arrange a time to look at the GIS mapping. 

  • Share What is the definition of a large lot? on Facebook Share What is the definition of a large lot? on Twitter Share What is the definition of a large lot? on Linkedin Email What is the definition of a large lot? link

    What is the definition of a large lot?

    Margaret Smith asked over 1 year ago

    Large lot comes from the zone titled 'Large Lot Residential'. The zone's objectives and permissibility’s can be found https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/epi-2013-0066#pt-cg1.Zone_R5

     The actual size of what a large lot can be depends on its location. Most areas within Lismore where the Large Lot Residential zone applies have a minimum lot size of 2,500m2. The lot size differs according to the constraints of the site and are set at the time of rezoning. So if a new parcel(s) were to be rezoned to a Large Lot Residential zone, the site investigations that will be carried out prior to the zoning will assist Council and the landholders in determining a suitable minimum lot size. 

    Minimum lot size maps can be found here https://pp.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/publications/environmental-planning-instruments/lismore-local-environmental-plan-2012-0

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