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Waverley Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Waverley Council through to what gets built.
Waverley Council determines a development application in a median of 61 days — 5 days slower than the NSW median of 56.
Measured across 337 determined development applications, last 12 months · 6,931 applications on record · 46 planning proposals · 73,345 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 27,455 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
1,099 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 Waverley Council for 2,400 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
- DA modification80 WELLINGTON STREET BONDI BEACH 2026Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA89 WATSON STREET BONDI 2026Lodged31 Oct 2026
- CDC3 8 FLETCHER STREET BONDI 2026Lodged31 Oct 2026
- CDC modification41 HARDY STREET DOVER HEIGHTS 2030Lodged30 Oct 2026
- DA modification725 OLD SOUTH HEAD ROAD VAUCLUSE 2030Lodged30 Oct 2026
- Planning proposalConstruction and Subdivision of dual occupancies in the R2 zoneUnder Assessment31 July 2026
- Planning proposalPLANNING PROPOSAL - General LEP UpdateMade12 June 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 Waverley Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.