NSW · Greater Sydney · Suburban
Fairfield City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Fairfield City Council through to what gets built.
Fairfield City Council determines a development application in a median of 78 days — 22 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 274 determined development applications, last 12 months · 10,340 applications on record · 57 planning proposals · 213,677 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 60,918 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
3,348 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 Fairfield City Council for 5,900 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
- CDC modification195 GLADSTONE STREET CABRAMATTA 2166Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC modification26 NORTH STREET FAIRFIELD 2165Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC12 SEAMAN AVENUE FAIRFIELD EAST 2165Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC108 ORCHARDLEIGH STREET OLD GUILDFORD 2161Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC18 MATTHES STREET YENNORA 2161Lodged31 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalRezoning from R2 to RE2 Private Recreation at 55 Cabramatta Road East, Cabramatta (Cabra Bowls Club)Made2 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalLocal Heritage ListingsPost-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 Fairfield 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.