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Cumberland City Council

An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Cumberland City Council through to what gets built.

Cumberland City Council determines a development application in a median of 88 days — 32 days slower than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 522 determined development applications, last 12 months · 12,246 applications on record · 75 planning proposals · 256,906 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 71,666 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)

Housing determined since 1 July 2024

4,377 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 Cumberland City Council for 12,200 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.

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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 modification62 FERNDELL STREET SOUTH GRANVILLE 2142Lodged2 Nov 2026
  • CDC modification242 PITT STREET MERRYLANDS 2160Lodged2 Nov 2026
  • CDC15 BELGIUM STREET AUBURN 2144Lodged2 Nov 2026
  • CDC modification25 BALLINA STREET GREYSTANES 2145Lodged2 Nov 2026
  • DA19 WARREN ROAD WOODPARK 2164Lodged30 Oct 2026
  • Planning proposalWoodville Road Corridor Planning ProposalMade5 June 2026
  • Planning proposal25 South Parade, AuburnMade14 Feb 2025

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How we count. These figures count the homes stated on development applications and complying development certificates lodged with Cumberland 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.