Find NSW development applications and compare council activity

Explore development applications (DAs) recorded in the NSW Planning Portal since 2019, with council comparisons and links to official sources. National ABS building-approval statistics are shown separately. Applications describe proposed work; they do not prove approval or completion.

Box Hill, Melbourne · Philip Mallis · CC BY-SA 2.0

427,456Development applications

187,896Dwellings approved, 12 months

41,981Heritage-listed items

3,999,184Registered companies

Every NSW council, and how it builds

One page per council: what people applied to build, how long a decision takes, and what the ABS separately recorded as approved — two registers nobody else publishes side by side.

Council	Applications	Homes proposed	Median decision
Central Coast Council	17,040	13,491	69 days
Lake Macquarie City Council	14,201	13,651	46 days
Northern Beaches Council	14,135	10,214	59 days
Council of the City of Sydney	13,520	22,978	52 days
Inner West Council	12,806	11,026	80 days
The Hills Shire Council	12,721	23,007	70 days
Blacktown City Council	12,359	27,543	36 days
Sutherland Shire Council	10,757	9,864	118 days

All 128 NSW councils →

Fastest councils to decide

Median days from lodgement to determination. Neither register publishes this — it is computed here only for councils with at least 30 applications carrying both dates, a statistical-validity threshold rather than an indexability gate.

Narromine Shire Council15 days · 446 applications Narrandera Shire Council16 days · 322 applications Brewarrina Shire Council18 days · 51 applications Coolamon Shire Council20 days · 614 applications Temora Shire Council20 days · 558 applications

What else is here

Developer intelligenceCommissioned council, corridor and project-type briefs, plus ongoing monitoring Major projectsSearch and filter the largest stated development pipelines in NSW Newcastle & Lake MacquarieA focused two-council view of 24,017 applications and the regional heritage layer Building approvals526 councils, all eight states — the one national layer What people buildTypes of work, typical cost and homes delivered Heritage listings41,981 protected items — a legal constraint on what you can change Rent by area2,472 areas, every state Area profilesCensus rent, mortgage and income by area Location climate context8 capital-city stations, fixed 1991-2020 observations Company register3,999,184 Australian companies

Useful next views

Turn planning evidence into the next decision.

These views reuse the official applications, approvals, heritage, area and climate context already available here.

01 · Property alertsTrack new applications, status changes and important planning updates.02 · What happened to this property?Assemble a dated history of applications, decisions and modifications.03 · Agent and area intelligenceCompare councils, activity, decision times and development patterns.04 · Property evidence reportCombine planning, heritage, approvals, climate and neighbourhood context.05 · Planning potentialShow relevant precedents and constraints while keeping formal advice with the council.06 · Relocation and investor comparisonCompare places by activity, services, climate and documented evidence.

Everything here is open government data, and we say which. Each dataset is listed on method & licences with whether its licence permits commercial use and derivative works. Where we compute something worth reusing we publish it back — see the council development activity dataset, released CC-BY with a machine-readable download.

Need a decision-ready slice? Start with the free council and project search. For a defined council, corridor or development category, commission a developer brief or monitoring feed built only from the same approved, attributed sources.