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Georges River Council

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

Georges River Council determines a development application in a median of 99 days43 days slower than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 333 determined development applications, last 12 months · 7,799 applications on record · 46 planning proposals · 159,749 people · 52,401 dwellings

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

2,361 homes have been approved here

Counted from 1,660 of 2,036 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 376 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero. Applicants recorded 2,530; 169 homes are not counted here, from 20 applications whose own figures cannot be true.

141 still to be decided · 7% · 172 homes1,810 determined · 87% · 1,914 homes130 withdrawn or stopped · 6% · 174 homesWithdrawn 129 · Not proceeding 1

172 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

Apartments and shop-top leads what Georges River Council has approved

Apartments and shop-top1,165
Dwelling house520
Dual occupancy342
Secondary dwelling184
Multi-dwelling and terraces87
Demolition33

5 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

NSW asks Georges River Council for 6,300 homes by June 2029

That target counts homes finished; everything above counts 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 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

  • Lodged24 COLERIDGE STREET RIVERWOOD 221014 Sept 2026
  • Lodged3 CROSS STREET HURSTVILLE 222014 Sept 2026
  • Lodged23 GEORGE STREET MORTDALE 222313 Sept 2026
  • Lodged124 MI MI STREET OATLEY 222311 Sept 2026
  • Lodged18 PARKSIDE DRIVE KOGARAH BAY 221711 Sept 2026
  • ProposalAffordable Housing Contribution Scheme (AHCS) — Pre-Exhibition11 May 2026
  • ProposalMortdale Local Centre — Under Assessment5 May 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 Georges River 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.