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Lake Macquarie City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Lake Macquarie City Council through to what gets built.
Lake Macquarie City Council determines a development application in a median of 65 days — 9 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 1,530 determined development applications, last 12 months · 20,575 applications on record · 114 planning proposals · 224,540 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 80,677 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
3,356 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 Lake Macquarie City Council for 8,000 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
- DA53 MCELWEE DRIVE TINGIRA HEIGHTS 2290Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA58 COSBY VIEW EDGEWORTH 2285Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA2 BURNS STREET REDHEAD 2290Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA419 PACIFIC HIGHWAY BELMONT 2280Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA6 KOYIKALING STREET EDGEWORTH 2285Lodged2 Nov 2026
- Planning proposalGateshead Medical PrecinctOn Exhibition to 9 Nov 202614 Apr 2026
- Planning proposalPlanning Proposal to rezone land at 51 Alton Road CooranbongUnder Assessment5 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 Lake Macquarie City Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.