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Lismore City Council

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

Lismore City Council determines a development application in a median of 20 days36 days faster than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 324 determined development applications, last 12 months · 3,016 applications on record · 69 planning proposals · 44,578 people · 17,154 dwellings

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

548 homes have been approved here

Counted from 484 of 817 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 333 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero. Applicants recorded 553; 5 homes are not counted here, from 4 applications whose own figures cannot be true.

46 still to be decided · 6% · 224 homes754 determined · 91% · 513 homes24 withdrawn or stopped · 3% · 4 homesWithdrawn 22 · Not proceeding 2

224 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

Dwelling house leads what Lismore City Council has approved

Dwelling house234
Apartments and shop-top96
Multi-dwelling and terraces73
Dual occupancy70
Ancillary structures53
Secondary dwelling9

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

Lismore City 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 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

  • Lodged124 BALLINA ROAD LISMORE 248010 Sept 2026
  • Lodged56 CASINO STREET SOUTH LISMORE 248010 Sept 2026
  • Lodged12 HIDDEN VALLEY CIRCUIT CHILCOTTS GRASS 248010 Sept 2026
  • Lodged124 OLIVER AVENUE GOONELLABAH 24809 Sept 2026
  • Lodged1 PALMVALE DRIVE GOONELLABAH 24809 Sept 2026
  • ProposalRezone land at 245 & 245A Oliver Avenue, 420 Oliver Avenue, 15 Holland Street GOONELLABAH. — Pre-Exhibition19 July 2026
  • ProposalTweed LEP 2014 - Rezoning of 7 hectares of land at Winchelsea Way, Terranora to enable the development of approximately 20 rural residential allotments. — Not Proceeding1 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 Lismore City 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.