Employment Lands Strategy
The Employment Lands Strategy provides a strategic planning framework to guide the management and growth of commercial and industrial employment lands within the Kiama Local Government Area (LGA) over the next 20 years.
The Employment Lands Strategy sits alongside the recently adopted Local Housing Strategy. Where the Local Housing Strategy focuses on housing supply, the Employment Lands Strategy provides the strategic direction for employment lands in the LGA by providing clear information, guidance and strategic direction on land use in employment areas and provide direction in terms of considering any planning proposals relating to future employment land.
View the Employment Lands Strategy
The Strategy was endorsed by Council on 15 September 2026, following extensive community consultation and collaboration with state agencies.
The Strategy includes a detailed Implementation Plan to ensure an appropriate pipeline of employment lands supply now and into the future.
The Strategy includes a monitoring and ongoing review framework.
2023 change to employment zones
On 26 April 2023 Employment zones (ie "E" zones) commenced within Kiama Local Environmental Plan 2011 (Kiama LEP 2011) replacing the previous Business ("B") zones and Industrial ("I") zones.
From 26 April 2023, in a document (other than a state environmental planning policy) a reference to a former zone under an environmental planning instrument is taken to include a reference to a new zone under the environmental planning instrument.
The following table provides the new zone for previously zoned Business and Industrial zoned land within Kiama LEP 2011:
Kiama Local Environmental Plan 2011
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Previous Business and Industrial Zones
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New Employment Zones
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B1 Neighbourhood Centre
B2 Local Centre
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E1 Local Centre
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B7 Business Park
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E3 Productivity Support |
| IN2 Light Industrial |
E4 General Industrial
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| IN4 Working Waterfront |
W4 Working Waterfront
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A new local centres provision was introduced to provide additional considerations when assessing development in smaller E1 Local Centres which were previously zoned B1 Neighbourhood Centre.
The updated maps and LEP document for the Kiama LEP 2011 are available on the NSW Legislation website Kiama Local Environmental Plan 2011 - NSW Legislation.