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Wollongong City Council
An approval is not a home. Lodgd follows every application in Wollongong City Council through to what gets built.
Wollongong City Council determines a development application in a median of 56 days — exactly the NSW median of 56 days.
Measured across 821 determined development applications, last 12 months · 16,200 applications on record · 96 planning proposals · 224,327 people (2025 ABS estimate) · 80,658 occupied dwellings (2021 Census)
Housing determined since 1 July 2024
4,807 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 Wollongong City Council for 9,200 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
- CDC137 FLAGSTAFF ROAD WARRAWONG 2502Lodged2 Nov 2026
- DA17 PORTER STREET NORTH WOLLONGONG 2500Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC12 RAWSON STREET COLEDALE 2515Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC22 OCEAN STREET TOWRADGI 2518Lodged2 Nov 2026
- CDC660 PRINCES HIGHWAY RUSSELL VALE 2517Lodged2 Nov 2026
- Planning proposal20 Lawrence Hargrave Drive Stanwell Tops – Proposed Additional Use – & HeritagePre-Exhibition28 Sept 2026
- Planning proposalTourism AccommodationPre-Exhibition19 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 Wollongong City Council, checked against the NSW Planning Portal. Where another source counts differently, Lodgd publishes what is in the applications rather than adjusting to match.