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Bourke Shire Council

Every development application and planning proposal lodged with Bourke Shire Council, tracked daily from the NSW Planning Portal — and what share of it actually gets built.

119 applications on record · 6 planning proposals · 2,387 people

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

40 homes have been approved here

Counted from 22 of 43 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 21 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero.

1 still to be decided · 3% · 0 homes38 determined · 95% · 38 homes1 withdrawn or stopped · 2% · 3 homes

What kind of housing

Apartments and shop-top leads what Bourke Shire Council has approved

Apartments and shop-top16
Seniors and specialised housing14
Dual occupancy3
Multi-dwelling and terraces3
Dwelling house2
Ancillary structures1

One smaller category is not shown. An application can carry more than one type, so these do not sum to the total above.

NSW’s housing target

Bourke Shire Council has no council-level target

Outside the four target areas. Covered by the single 55,000-home regional NSW allocation, which NSW does not break down by council.

Approved is not built

Across NSW, only 50% of approved homes reach construction within two years.

An approval is not a house. 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.

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Measured over 247,565 homes approved in the last 24 months.

Latest activity

Updated every morning from the NSW Planning Portal

  • Lodged59 MERTIN STREET BOURKE 28409 Sept 2026
  • Lodged90 DOWLING TRACK NORTH BOURKE 284025 Aug 2026
  • Lodged17 MACQUARIE STREET NORTH BOURKE 284012 Aug 2026
  • Lodged96 TANCRED DRIVE BOURKE 28409 July 2026
  • Lodged24 OXLEY STREET BOURKE 28403 July 2026
  • ProposalReclassification of allotments from Community to Operational Land — Made29 Apr 2026
  • ProposalBourke Shire Council LEP 2012- housekeeping and various amendments — Made29 Apr 2026

Elsewhere in NSW

Every council, the same way

How we count. These figures count homes written on development applications and complying development certificates lodged with Bourke Shire Council and published on the NSW Planning Portal. NSW’s Housing Supply Dashboard counts something different. Across NSW the two land within 6% of each other; council by council they differ by more than 20% about half the time, and in both directions — for some councils NSW’s figure is far higher, for others far lower. Ours is checked application by application against the Planning Portal itself, and matches it exactly in every council tested. Lodgd publishes what is in the applications, and says so rather than adjusting to match.