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Upper Hunter Shire Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Upper Hunter Shire Council through to what gets built.
Upper Hunter Shire Council determines a development application in a median of 36 days — 20 days faster than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 125 determined development applications, last 12 months · 1,532 applications on record · 19 planning proposals · 14,425 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 5,499 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
148 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
Upper Hunter Shire 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 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
- DA6210-6212 GOLDEN HIGHWAY MERRIWA 2329Lodged29 Oct 2026
- CDC modification54 BHIMA DRIVE SCONE 2337Lodged29 Oct 2026
- DA modification23 ST ANDREWS STREET ABERDEEN 2336Lodged28 Oct 2026
- CDC4 NORWOOD ROAD SCONE 2337Lodged27 Oct 2026
- DA modification53 MCADAM STREET ABERDEEN 2336Lodged26 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalReclassify land in Scone from Community to Operational landPre-Exhibition16 June 2026
- Planning proposalHousekeeping AmendmentFinalisation12 June 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 Upper Hunter 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.