NSW · Greater Sydney · Urban

Canada Bay Council

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

Canada Bay Council determines a development application in a median of 48 days8 days faster than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 204 determined development applications, last 12 months · 5,809 applications on record · 41 planning proposals · 91,209 people · 34,512 dwellings

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

1,887 homes have been approved here

Counted from 1,105 of 1,402 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 297 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero. Applicants recorded 1,895; 8 homes are not counted here, from 6 applications whose own figures cannot be true.

115 still to be decided · 8% · 552 homesUnder assessment 114 · Under appeal 11,289 determined · 88% · 1,214 homes65 withdrawn or stopped · 4% · 67 homes

552 homes are still waiting on a decision. This is every application lodged since 1 July 2024 and where it stands today — the homes figure beside it covers applications determined in the same period, which is a different set.

What kind of housing

Apartments and shop-top leads what Canada Bay Council has approved

Apartments and shop-top1,162
Dwelling house343
Dual occupancy263
Multi-dwelling and terraces44
Secondary dwelling33
Non-residential23

5 smaller categories are not shown. An application can carry more than one type, so these do not sum to the total above.

NSW’s housing target

NSW asks Canada Bay Council for 5,000 homes by June 2029

That target counts homes finished; everything above counts 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 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

  • Lodged35 MOALA STREET CONCORD WEST 213814 Sept 2026
  • Lodged2/SP7688714 Sept 2026
  • Lodged19 ROSEBY STREET DRUMMOYNE 204711 Sept 2026
  • Lodged19 ROSEBY STREET DRUMMOYNE 204711 Sept 2026
  • Lodged8 CECIL STREET WAREEMBA 204611 Sept 2026
  • ProposalPLANNING PROPOSAL - 79-81 QUEENS ROAD AND 2-12 SPENCER STREET, FIVE DOCK — Finalisation22 Apr 2026
  • ProposalMiscellaneous Amendments 2025 — Pre-Exhibition22 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 Canada Bay 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.