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Kempsey Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Kempsey Shire Council through to what gets built.
Kempsey Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 81 days — 25 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 253 determined development applications, last 12 months · 3,046 applications on record · 47 planning proposals · 31,950 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 11,352 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
667 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
Kempsey 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
- CDC12 KOONDOOLOO CRESCENT SOUTH WEST ROCKS 2431Lodged30 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalHousekeeping Amendments Planning Proposal 2026Under Assessment30 Oct 2026
- DA1-9 NANCY ELLIS STREET WEST KEMPSEY 2440Lodged28 Oct 2026
- CDC508 FISHERMANS REACH ROAD FISHERMANS REACH 2441Lodged28 Oct 2026
- DA425 MACLEAY VALLEY WAY SOUTH KEMPSEY 2440Lodged28 Oct 2026
- CDC1 JACARANDA WAY CRESCENT HEAD 2440Lodged28 Oct 2026
- Planning proposal476 Macleay Valley Way Planning ProposalMade19 Sept 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 Kempsey 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.