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Blue Mountains City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Blue Mountains City Council through to what gets built.
Blue Mountains City Council determines a development application in a median of 74 days — 18 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 482 determined development applications, last 12 months · 5,706 applications on record · 33 planning proposals · 79,236 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 30,528 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
576 homes have been determined here
Counted from the applications that state a number of new homes. Where an application does not state one, it is not read as a zero. A home decided twice at the same address is counted once.
NSW’s housing target
NSW asks Blue Mountains City Council for 600 homes by June 2029.
That target counts homes finished; the homes determined here are counted from applications. A home can be approved and never built, and NSW measures the target against ABS completions data that Lodgd does not hold. The two are not a percentage of one another.
Approved is not built
Across NSW, only 57% of homes determined reach construction within two years.
Lodgd matches every application to the construction certificates that follow it, site by site, across all 128 councils — so the pipeline can be read as what is likely to exist rather than what was lodged.
Try the free demo →Measured over 193,554 homes determined between July 2021 and November 2024 — every decision old enough to have had two full years to start.
Of every hundred homes NSW determines, this many have a construction certificate — building work can legally begin — within two full years.
Latest activity
Straight from the NSW Planning Portal
- DA28 MURRI STREET BLACKHEATH 2785Lodged30 Oct 2026
- CDC127-129 MACQUARIE ROAD SPRINGWOOD 2777Lodged30 Oct 2026
- DA59 Highland Street Leura 2780Lodged29 Oct 2026
- DA23-29 PARK STREET GLENBROOK 2773Lodged29 Oct 2026
- DA74 RAILWAY PARADE MEDLOW BATH 2780Lodged29 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalAmendment 28 to Blue Mountains LEP 2015 - LEP Housekeeping reviewUnder Assessment6 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalAmendment 25 to Blue Mountains LEP 2015 (Leuralla Amphitheatre and Dam Sites)Post-Exhibition14 July 2026
Elsewhere in NSW
Every council, the same way
How the system works. What happens to a DA · How long they take · Complying development vs a DA · All guides →
How we count. These figures count the homes stated on development applications and complying development certificates lodged with Blue Mountains City Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.