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Cobar Shire Council

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

274 applications on record · 3 planning proposals · 4,101 people

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

26 homes have been approved here

Counted from 25 of 71 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 46 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero.

6 still to be decided · 8% · 6 homes65 determined · 89% · 20 homes2 withdrawn or stopped · 3% · 1 homeWithdrawn 1 · Not proceeding 1

6 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 Cobar Shire Council has approved

Dwelling house10
Ancillary structures6
Dual occupancy6
Residential (form not stated)2
Secondary dwelling2

NSW’s housing target

Cobar 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

  • Lodged120/--/DP262941, 101/--/DP70350031 Aug 2026
  • Lodged9674 BEDOOBA ROAD NYMAGEE 283126 Aug 2026
  • Lodged1 BROOMFIELD STREET COBAR 283525 Aug 2026
  • Lodged12 GREEN STREET COBAR 283518 Aug 2026
  • Lodged24 BECKER STREET COBAR 283515 July 2026
  • ProposalCobar Local Environmental Plan 2012 - Include 'health services facilities' as being 'permitted with consent' in the R2 Low Density Residential Zone. — Made29 Apr 2026
  • ProposalPlanning Proposal to Reclassify Public Land from Community to Operational, no interests changed. — Made22 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 Cobar 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.