NSW · Central West and Orana · Regional
Forbes Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Forbes Shire Council through to what gets built.
Forbes Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 41 days — 15 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 101 determined development applications, last 12 months · 1,021 applications on record · 20 planning proposals · 9,301 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 3,563 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
131 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
Forbes 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
- CDC48 LIVINGSTON BOULEVARD FORBES 2871Lodged27 Oct 2026
- DA1/DP285805Lodged23 Oct 2026
- DA modification18 QUARRY ROAD FORBES 2871Lodged16 Oct 2026
- DA28-36 JOHNSON STREET FORBES 2871Lodged15 Oct 2026
- DA91 FARRAND STREET FORBES 2871Lodged9 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalCalarie Road Planning ProposalMade20 July 2026
- Planning proposalBogan Gate Road (South)Made6 Feb 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 Forbes 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.