NSW · South East and Tablelands · Rural
Hilltops Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Hilltops Council through to what gets built.
Hilltops Council determines a development application in a median of 47 days — 9 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 185 determined development applications, last 12 months · 1,795 applications on record · 17 planning proposals · 19,347 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 7,403 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
257 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
Hilltops 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
- DA10 Prings Street, Jugiong NSW 2726Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA modification22 REDBANK STREET HARDEN 2587Lodged30 Oct 2026
- DA150 WILLIAM STREET YOUNG 2594Lodged28 Oct 2026
- CDC162 CLARKE STREET HARDEN 2587Lodged28 Oct 2026
- CDC22 HENRY PLACE YOUNG 2594Lodged27 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalPlanning Proposal for Reclassification of LandsPost-Exhibition25 June 2026
- Planning proposalRezoning of land at 2-20 Telegraph Road, Young NSWMade31 Oct 2025
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 Hilltops Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.