NSW · Riverina Murray · Rural

Federation Council

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

Federation Council determines a development application in a median of 31 days25 days faster than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 162 determined development applications, last 12 months · 1,789 applications on record · 13 planning proposals · 13,117 people · 5,231 dwellings

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

156 homes have been approved here

Counted from 268 of 489 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 221 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero.

27 still to be decided · 6% · 175 homes454 determined · 92% · 142 homes10 withdrawn or stopped · 2% · 3 homes

175 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 Federation Council has approved

Dwelling house110
Dual occupancy14
Apartments and shop-top12
Multi-dwelling and terraces5
Seniors and specialised housing5
Ancillary structures4

3 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

Federation 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

  • Lodged187 KENNEDY STREET HOWLONG 264314 Sept 2026
  • Lodged79 STURT STREET MULWALA 264710 Sept 2026
  • Lodged83 MILTHORPE STREET OAKLANDS 26469 Sept 2026
  • Lodged110 BANK STREET HOWLONG 26439 Sept 2026
  • Lodged5 DOMINION ROAD, COROWA NSW 2646 | 10/DP10789258 Sept 2026
  • ProposalFederation Local Environmental Plan 2021 — Not Proceeding1 May 2026
  • ProposalCorowa LEP 2012 - s73A - Correct Minor Mapping Errors on Land Zoning Map LZN_006A — Made29 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 Federation 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.