Every application, every proposal,
every home in the pipeline.

A planning proposal is a formal request to amend a Local Environmental Plan (LEP) — the instrument that controls land use zones, building heights, and floor space ratios across a NSW local government area. If approved, it permanently changes what can be built on the affected land. Planning proposals are processed under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and move through stages from Pre-Exhibition through to Made (gazetted). Read our full guide to the NSW planning proposal process →

A "Made" proposal is one that has been gazetted — the LEP amendment has been formally published in the NSW Government Gazette and is now law. The rezoning is legally effective. This is the final successful outcome of the planning proposal process. Lodgd's database contains 4,100+ Made proposals, of which 1,200+ carry a recorded from/to zone transition, and 3,500+ name a proponent.

Gateway determination is a formal decision by the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) on whether a planning proposal has sufficient strategic and site-specific merit to proceed to public exhibition. It's the most important milestone in the planning proposal lifecycle — proposals that receive a positive gateway determination are substantially more likely to be Made than those that remain at Pre-Exhibition. Read our gateway determination guide →

Transport Oriented Development (TOD) precincts are areas around NSW train stations where the state government's TOD SEPP 2023 allows medium and high density development as complying development — without a merit-based DA. The program covers dozens of stations across Greater Sydney and overrides local council height and density controls within designated precinct boundaries. TOD precincts generate dense clusters of planning proposal activity. Read our TOD precincts guide →

Lodgd monitors all 128 NSW local government areas (LGAs) — every council that publishes planning proposals on the NSW Planning Portal. This includes all Greater Sydney metro councils, regional NSW councils (Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong, Illawarra, Hunter, Northern Rivers, Central West), and rural shires. No NSW council is excluded.

The NSW Planning Portal is the government's official register — it lists proposals but doesn't structure, enrich, or make them searchable in the ways professionals need. Lodgd sits on top of the Portal and adds: structured zone transition data, AI summaries, proponent identification, geocoded coordinates, stage change history, council approval rates, comparable precedent matching, personalised alerts, site assessments, and interactive mapping with planning overlays. The Portal tells you a proposal exists; Lodgd tells you what it means.

Lodgd monitors the NSW Planning Portal continuously, with the sync pipeline running several times a day. New proposals and stage changes typically appear within 24 hours of being published on the Portal, and AI analysis runs on newly detected proposals. Personalised alerts are sent as new activity is detected.

The council pages, guides and NSW-wide figures on this site are free and open to everyone. The Lodgd app itself is closed while it prepares for full release — register your interest and we will write to you the day it opens.