NSW · Greater Sydney · Urban
North Sydney Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in North Sydney Council through to what gets built.
North Sydney Council determines a development application in a median of 84 days — 28 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 220 determined development applications, last 12 months · 5,625 applications on record · 76 planning proposals · 73,705 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 32,395 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
1,524 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 North Sydney Council for 5,900 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
- DA modification35 BLUES POINT ROAD MCMAHONS POINT 2060Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA modification44 JEFFREYS STREET KIRRIBILLI 2061Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC100 ARTHUR STREET NORTH SYDNEY 2060Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC100 MOUNT STREET NORTH SYDNEY 2060Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA89 WYCOMBE ROAD NEUTRAL BAY 2089Lodged30 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalPP- Mixed Use Development at 52 McLaren Street, North SydneyMade26 Sept 2025
- Planning proposalPP1/25 - 41-53 Grosvenor Street, Neutral BayPre-Exhibition9 May 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 North Sydney Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.