NSW · Greater Sydney · Urban
City of Sydney
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in City of Sydney through to what gets built.
City of Sydney determines a development application in a median of 46 days — 10 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 996 determined development applications, last 12 months · 25,328 applications on record · 142 planning proposals · 241,797 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 97,743 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
6,925 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 City of Sydney for 18,900 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
- CDCSuite 18.02, 167 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC9-13 HAY STREET HAYMARKET 2000Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC88 PHILLIP STREET SYDNEY 2000Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC154-160 BROADWAY CHIPPENDALE 2008Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC2 BAPTIST STREET REDFERN 2016Lodged2 Nov 2026
- Planning proposalKing Street Special Entertainment PrecinctPre-Exhibition2 July 2026
- Planning proposalPlanning Proposal – 103-109 George Street, RedfernPost-Exhibition14 May 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 City of Sydney, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.