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Port Stephens Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Port Stephens Council through to what gets built.
Port Stephens Council determines a development application in a median of 33 days — 23 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 576 determined development applications, last 12 months · 7,591 applications on record · 97 planning proposals · 80,070 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 28,868 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
1,324 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 Port Stephens Council for 2,100 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
- CDCLOT 112, DP1329435 -9 Supreme Drive, RAYMOND TERRALodged2 Nov 2026
- DA24A LAKESIDE TERRACE MEDOWIE 2318Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA modification118 DUNS CREEK ROAD DUNS CREEK 2321Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA modification1 12 THURLOW AVENUE NELSON BAY 2315Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDCLOT 105 - SECTION 1329435 -10 SUPREME DRIVE, RAYMOLodged30 Oct 2026
- Planning proposal20 Nulla Nulla Lane, Hinton Planning ProposalUnder Assessment28 May 2026
- Planning proposalReclassification and Rezoning of Surplus Council SitesFinalisation18 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 Port Stephens Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.