Collaroy Plateau is located 22 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district. Collaroy Plateau was zoned as a separate suburb in 1977, but was rezoned as an area within Collaroy in 1984. In 2001, these areas were renamed Urban Places and in 2011, Collaroy Plateau was re-established as a suburb after lobbying by the community, who had never stopped considering it a suburb since its loss of the title in 1984.