Strategic Regional Land Use Policy: Additional Rural Village Land Zones

Additional Rural Village Land zones are defined as land zoned R5 large lot residential that meets specific 'village' criteria. The NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure proposes prohibiting coal seam gas activities within and up to two kilometers of these zones. The dataset was last updated on May 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping land use restrictions for coal seam gas based on rural village zoning.
• Analyzing spatial buffers for energy project siting based on the two-kilometer prohibition rule.
• Planning rural residential development in areas with defined village criteria.
• Modeling potential conflicts between residential zoning and resource extraction activities.

Strengths

• Dataset is maintained by the authoritative NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.
• Policy includes a specific, defined spatial buffer of two kilometers for the prohibition.
• Last update timestamp is precise: 2026-05-12 23:21:47.505200.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 23:21:47.505200; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia