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Nambucca Valley Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Nambucca Valley Council through to what gets built.
Nambucca Valley Council determines a development application in a median of 29 days — 27 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 275 determined development applications, last 12 months · 2,683 applications on record · 37 planning proposals · 21,237 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 8,265 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
368 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
Nambucca Valley 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
- DA modification940 SCOTTS HEAD ROAD WAY WAY 2447Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA45 WALLACE STREET SCOTTS HEAD 2447Lodged28 Oct 2026
- DA5 GADUYING COURT NAMBUCCA HEADS 2448Lodged28 Oct 2026
- DA26A NELSON STREET NAMBUCCA HEADS 2448Lodged28 Oct 2026
- DA modification27 SHORT STREET NAMBUCCA HEADS 2448Lodged28 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalAmendments to Valla Urban Growth AreaMade2 Apr 2026
- Planning proposalPROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE NAMBUCCA LEP 2010 - ADDITIONAL PERMITTED USE AT 19 HAMERTON COURT TEWINGAMade14 Nov 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 Nambucca Valley Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.