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Clarence Valley Council

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

Clarence Valley Council determines a development application in a median of 43 days13 days faster than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 559 determined development applications, last 12 months · 6,284 applications on record · 78 planning proposals · 54,445 people · 20,932 dwellings

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

1,209 homes have been approved here

Counted from 700 of 1,444 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 744 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero. Applicants recorded 1,216; 7 homes are not counted here, from 7 applications whose own figures cannot be true.

133 still to be decided · 9% · 132 homes1,244 determined · 87% · 769 homes48 withdrawn or stopped · 4% · 19 homesWithdrawn 46 · Not proceeding 2

132 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

Dwelling house leads what Clarence Valley Council has approved

Dwelling house425
Ancillary structures226
Other (stated by NSW)216
Residential (form not stated)100
Apartments and shop-top76
Dual occupancy56

7 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

Clarence Valley 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

  • Lodged23 ALANS PLACE YAMBA 246414 Sept 2026
  • Lodged290 SERPENTINE CHANNEL SOUTH BANK ROAD HARWOOD 246511 Sept 2026
  • Lodged1-3 TREELANDS DRIVE YAMBA 246411 Sept 2026
  • Lodged20 TREE FROG GROVE WOOMBAH 246910 Sept 2026
  • Lodged18 PACIFIC STREET ANGOURIE 246410 Sept 2026
  • ProposalClarence Valley LEP 2011 - Amendment to Schedule 1 to permit explosives depot, machinery storage, and a ANE mixing plant, at Tullymorgan-Jackybulbin Road, Mororo — Withdrawn1 May 2026
  • ProposalPalmers Island Rural Supplies store — Not Proceeding1 May 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 Clarence Valley 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.