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Newcastle City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Newcastle City Council through to what gets built.
Newcastle City Council determines a development application in a median of 41 days — 15 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 1,047 determined development applications, last 12 months · 13,391 applications on record · 82 planning proposals · 178,935 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 66,129 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
3,236 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 Newcastle City Council for 11,100 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
- CDC204 UNION STREET THE JUNCTION 2291Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA58 TURNBULL STREET MEREWETHER 2291Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA7 CHURCH STREET LAMBTON 2299Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA364 HUNTER STREET NEWCASTLE 2300Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA36 VINE STREET MAYFIELD 2304Lodged2 Nov 2026
- Planning proposalPlanning Proposal - Geotechnical Planning (Landslide Risk)Pre-Exhibition2 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalNewcastle Affordable Housing Contributions Scheme Planning ProposalMade8 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 Newcastle 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.