NSW · Greater Sydney · Suburban
Hornsby Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Hornsby Shire Council through to what gets built.
Hornsby Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 78 days — 22 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 421 determined development applications, last 12 months · 9,068 applications on record · 32 planning proposals · 155,484 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 51,629 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
1,078 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 Hornsby Shire Council for 5,500 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 modification127 BURDETT STREET WAHROONGA 2076Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC273-275 NEW LINE ROAD DURAL 2158Lodged30 Oct 2026
- CDC modification49D PENNANT HILLS ROAD NORMANHURST 2076Lodged30 Oct 2026
- CDC5 WONGALA CRESCENT BEECROFT 2119Lodged30 Oct 2026
- DA modification41 KNIGHTS ROAD GALSTON 2159Lodged30 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalSpecial Entertainment PrecinctOn Exhibition to 25 Nov 202630 June 2026
- Planning proposalExempt Council Led Advertising Planning ProposalPre-Exhibition25 June 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 Hornsby 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.