Planning brief
Rezoning Hub
Byron Shire Council
Overview
This brief summarises the planning position for Byron 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
- 8
- full register history
- Applications, 12 mo
- 624
- lodged in trailing year
- Approval rate
- 50%
- of 2 recorded outcomes
- Median decision
- 63 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
- 624
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 178
- Determined
- 424
- Withdrawn
- 22
The council typically determines an application in a median of 63 days (mean 77), measured across 1,420 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.
Rezoning pipeline
No proposals are currently in the pipeline for Byron Shire Council. Gazetted amendments and the full amendment history are below.
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temporary Events in the Byron Bay Rail Corridor | Withdrawn | 7 May 2026 | · |
| Proposed Heritage Item; Bangalow Bowling Club, 21 Byron Bay Road, Bangalow, NSW | Withdrawn | 29 Apr 2026 | Rejected |
| Byron LEP 2014 - Rezoning of 268 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay. | Withdrawn | 6 Sept 2021 | · |
| Additional Land Uses at ‘The Farm’, Ewingsdale Road, Ewingsdale | Withdrawn | 25 Aug 2021 | Approved |
| Byron LEP 2014 - Introduce an R1 General Residential zone and diverse housing provisions into the Byron LEP 2014 and rezone part of Lot 22 DP 1073165, Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, to R1 General Residential, amend the associated minimum lot size, reclassify the land and apply the diverse housing provisions | Withdrawn | 25 Aug 2021 | · |
| Amendment to allow Community Title subdivision at Linnaeus Estate Broken Head | Withdrawn | 1 June 2021 | · |
| Byron LEP 2014 Tyagarah Airport Additional Permitted Uses | Withdrawn | 28 Nov 2020 | · |
| Byron LEP 2014 - Amend and introduce planning provisions applicable to Byron Bay Town Centre | Withdrawn | 28 Nov 2020 | · |
Planning disputes
18 matters naming Byron 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 9, Applicant 3, Objector 1 (across 13 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.
Sources and provenance
This brief is computed from 8 records held for Byron Shire Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.
- act-da-finder
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
- digest
- fetched 12 Sept 2026
- nsw-caselaw
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
- nsw-online-da
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
- NSW Planning Portal (PPR)
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
- qld-developmenti
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
- VIC Amendments Online
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
- vic-melbourne-da
- fetched 15 Sept 2026
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