NSW · Far West · Rural

Walgett Shire Council

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

297 applications on record · 4 planning proposals · 5,546 people

Housing approved since 1 July 2024 · updated 15 Sept 2026

38 homes have been approved here

Counted from 25 of 60 determined applications — the ones stating a number of new homes, which for many of them is zero. The other 35 leave the field blank, and blank is not a zero.

13 still to be decided · 18% · 7 homes55 determined · 76% · 34 homes4 withdrawn or stopped · 6% · 0 homes

7 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

Apartments and shop-top leads what Walgett Shire Council has approved

Apartments and shop-top10

Dual occupancy8

Dwelling house6

Seniors and specialised housing6

Demolition5

Ancillary structures1

2 smaller categories are not shown. An application can carry more than one type, so these do not sum to the total above.

NSW’s housing target

Walgett 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 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.

Measured over 247,565 homes approved in the last 24 months.

Latest activity

Updated every morning from the NSW Planning Portal

Lodged82 ARTHUR STREET WALGETT 283231 Aug 2026
Lodged22 BATE STREET WALGETT 283228 Aug 2026
Lodged66 Fox Street, Walgett NSW 283210 Aug 2026
Lodged647 COME BY CHANCE ROAD WALGETT 283227 July 2026
Lodged18 PEEL STREET WALGETT 283222 July 2026
ProposalWalgett Rural Residential — Withdrawn1 May 2026
ProposalRezoning of land to permit a dwelling Crystal Road Lightning Ridge — Made29 Apr 2026

Elsewhere in NSW

Every council, the same way

Balranald Shire Council Bourke Shire Council Brewarrina Shire Council Broken Hill City Council Central Darling Shire Council Cobar Shire Council Compare all 128 councils →

How we count. These figures count homes written on development applications and complying development certificates lodged with Walgett Shire 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.