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Oberon Council

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

Oberon Council determines a development application in a median of 54 days2 days faster than the NSW median of 56.

Measured across 68 determined development applications, last 12 months · 660 applications on record · 8 planning proposals · 5,593 people · 2,038 dwellings

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

73 homes have been approved here

Counted from 81 of 166 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 85 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero.

21 still to be decided · 11% · 8 homes156 determined · 86% · 64 homes5 withdrawn or stopped · 3% · 3 homes

8 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 Oberon Council has approved

Dwelling house53
Dual occupancy12
Other (stated by NSW)3
Change of use2
Residential (form not stated)2
Apartments and shop-top1

NSW’s housing target

Oberon 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

  • Lodged519 JERULA ROAD MOZART 278726 Aug 2026
  • Lodged380 SHOOTERS HILL ROAD OBERON 278726 Aug 2026
  • Lodged163 GOUGHS ROAD HAZELGROVE 278725 Aug 2026
  • Lodged1431 SEWELLS CREEK ROAD ESSINGTON 278725 Aug 2026
  • Lodged34 MORAY CLOSE OBERON 278725 Aug 2026
  • ProposalOberon LEP 2013 Amendment 3 - Additional Permitted Use for Lot 4 DP 264133 No.280 Burroughs Crossing Road, Oberon — Made29 Apr 2026
  • ProposalAmendment 1 Oberon LEP 2013 - Clause 4.1A (3)(b) - Pt Lot 1 DP 1089826 No. 175 Titania Road, Oberon — Made29 Apr 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 Oberon 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.