Planning brief
Rezoning Hub
Blue Mountains City Council
Overview
This brief summarises the planning position for Blue Mountains City 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
- 3
- full register history
- Applications, 12 mo
- 720
- lodged in trailing year
- Approval rate
- 67%
- of 3 recorded outcomes
- Median decision
- 51 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
- 720
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 173
- Determined
- 501
- Withdrawn
- 46
The council typically determines an application in a median of 51 days (mean 68), measured across 1,607 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.
See all development applications in Blue Mountains City Council
Rezoning pipeline
Proposals still moving through the system here, before they are gazetted. Newest activity first.
| Proposal | Stage | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| Draft Blue Mountains LEP 2015 Amendment 20: Principal Development Area Amendment | Assessment | 6 May 2025 |
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft Blue Mountains LEP 2015 Amendment 20: Principal Development Area Amendment | Assessment | 6 May 2025 | Approved |
| Draft Blue Mountains LEP 2015 Amendment 16 (response to Low Rise Housing Diversity Code) | Withdrawn | 17 Jan 2023 | Approved |
| Draft Blue Mountains LEP 2015 Amendment 17: Creativity and Culture Amendment | Withdrawn | 12 May 2022 | Rejected |
Planning disputes
20 matters naming Blue Mountains City 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 10, Mixed 2 (across 12 enriched matters).
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 Blue Mountains City Council dispute in the national list
Sources and provenance
This brief is computed from 3 records held for Blue Mountains City Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.
- act-da-finder
- fetched 26 Oct 2026
- digest
- fetched 24 Oct 2026
- nsw-caselaw
- fetched 28 Oct 2026
- nsw-online-da
- fetched 26 Oct 2026
- NSW Planning Portal (PPR)
- fetched 29 Oct 2026
- qld-developmenti
- fetched 28 Oct 2026
- VIC Amendments Online
- fetched 25 Oct 2026
- vic-melbourne-da
- fetched 28 Oct 2026
Data © state planning departments, licensed CC BY 4.0. Prepared by Rezoning Hub, rezoninghub.com.