NSW · Central West and Orana · Regional
Cowra Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Cowra Shire Council through to what gets built.
Cowra Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 27 days — 29 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 99 determined development applications, last 12 months · 1,137 applications on record · 13 planning proposals · 12,721 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 5,081 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
109 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
Cowra 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 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
- CDC8 HARVEST CIRCUIT COWRA 2794Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA31 RIVER PARK ROAD COWRA 2794Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA2535 GEORGE RUSSELL DRIVE CANOWINDRA 2804Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA86 ODWYER ROAD COWRA 2794Lodged28 Oct 2026
- DA4 RICHARDS DRIVE COWRA 2794Lodged27 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalWest Cowra Growth Area - Minimum Lot size changesOn Exhibition to 9 Nov 202624 July 2026
- Planning proposalEast Cowra Growth Area - Minimum Lot size changesPre-Exhibition24 July 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 Cowra Shire Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.