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The Hills Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in The Hills Shire Council through to what gets built.
The Hills Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 82 days — 26 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 1,050 determined development applications, last 12 months · 21,806 applications on record · 125 planning proposals · 222,675 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 59,810 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
7,472 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 The Hills Shire Council for 23,300 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
- CDC10-14 MARKET LANE ROUSE HILL 2155Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC103 7 HOYLE AVENUE CASTLE HILL 2154Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA modification616 OLD NORTHERN ROAD DURAL 2158Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDCSHOP 3 1A GLANMIRE ROAD BAULKHAM HILLS 2153Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA modification121 OLD PITT TOWN ROAD GABLES 2765Lodged2 Nov 2026
- Planning proposalNorwest Innovation Planning ProposalUnder Assessment25 Sept 2026
- Planning proposalPlanning Proposal - Cattai Creek WestPre-Exhibition9 July 2026
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 The Hills Shire Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.