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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Bellingen Shire Council from the official register record: rezoning and amendment activity, development application volume and decision speed, and the planning-dispute history. Every figure below is computed directly from source records, never estimated.

Rezonings tracked: 1; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 122; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
Median decision: 70 days; lodgement to determination

Development activity

Applications lodged in this council in the trailing 12 months, by current status. Counted directly from the development application register.

Total lodged: 122
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 25
Determined: 91
Withdrawn: 6

The council typically determines an application in a median of 70 days (mean 88), measured across 354 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Bellingen Shire Council

Rezoning pipeline

No proposals are currently in the pipeline for Bellingen Shire Council. Gazetted amendments and the full amendment history are below.

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Bellingen LEP 2010 - Review the permissible land uses in the E4 Environmental Living Zone	Withdrawn	20 Aug 2021	·

Planning disputes

13 matters naming Bellingen Shire Council on record across the planning and environment courts and tribunals. Where the judgment has been read, the outcomes break down by prevailing party as Council 4, Applicant 1 (across 5 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
David Supple by his tutor Rachel Supple v Bellingen Shire Council [2016] NSWSC 1882	NSWSC	16 Dec 2016	not on record
Bellingen Shire Council v Colavon Pty Limited [2012] NSWCA 34	NSWCA	9 Mar 2012	not on record
Bellingen Shire Council v Lamir-Pike (No 2) [2010] NSWLEC 197	NSWLEC	5 Oct 2010	Interlocutory·Council
Bellingen Shire Council v Lamir-Pike [2010] NSWLEC 195	NSWLEC	1 Oct 2010	Interlocutory·Council
Colavon Pty Limited trading as Thormans Transport v Bellingen Shire Council [2008] NSWCA 355	NSWCA	19 Dec 2008	not on record
Environment Protection Authority v Bellingen Shire Council [2003] NSWLEC 42	NSWLEC	17 Dec 2002	Upheld·Applicant
Bellingen Shire Council V Darryl Andrew Woollard [1999] NSWLEC 55	NSWLEC	17 Feb 1999	Upheld·Council
Bellingen Shire Council V Stuart Kenneth North [1999] NSWLEC 52	NSWLEC	16 Feb 1999	Upheld·Council
TIPPER v WILLIAMS (NO 2) [1994] NSWCA 312	NSWCA	6 May 1994	Other
PACIFIC FORMWORK PTY LTD v BIGNILL [1992] NSWCA 176	NSWCA	5 Aug 1992	Other
Fuller v Bellingen Shire Council & Anor [1988] NSWLEC 126	NSWLEC	13 July 1988	not on record
Fuller v Bellingen Shire Council & Anor [1988] NSWLEC 125	NSWLEC	16 June 1988	not on record
Lopiglow Pty Ltd v Bellingen Shire Council [1988] NSWLEC 112	NSWLEC	23 Mar 1988	not on record

Matters are matched on council name. We link to the public judgment and never reproduce its text. Outcomes shown where the judgment has been read and structured.

See every Bellingen Shire Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 1 record held for Bellingen Shire Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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