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Cessnock City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Cessnock City Council through to what gets built.
Cessnock City Council determines a development application in a median of 36 days — 20 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 766 determined development applications, last 12 months · 11,374 applications on record · 73 planning proposals · 71,443 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 22,556 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
1,985 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 Cessnock City Council for 3,900 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
- DA modification15 BROWN CRESCENT KURRI KURRI 2327Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA9 SWIFT PARROT STREET MILLFIELD 2325Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA10 WILSON STREET KEARSLEY 2325Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DALot 713 11 Jarrah Way North Rothbury NSW 2335Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DALot 748 14 Gable Street North Ruthbury NSW 2335Lodged2 Nov 2026
- Planning proposalRECLASSIFICATION OF PART LOT 312 DP 566724 OLD MAITLAND ROAD CESSNOCKMade20 July 2026
- Planning proposalReclassification and Rezoning of various sites in Bellbird and AbermainMade7 Oct 2025
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 Cessnock 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.