Planning brief

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Coffs Harbour City Council

NSW register name Coffs Harbour City Council as at 28 Oct 2026

Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Coffs Harbour 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
5
full register history
Applications, 12 mo
840
lodged in trailing year
Approval rate
100%
of 1 recorded outcome
Median decision
31 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
840
Lodged
0
Under assessment
111
Determined
704
Withdrawn
25

The council typically determines an application in a median of 31 days (mean 57), measured across 2,171 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Coffs Harbour City Council

Rezoning pipeline

Proposals still moving through the system here, before they are gazetted. Newest activity first.

ProposalStageUpdated
Planning Proposal 26 - Amend Minimum Lot Size & Zoning Map at 35 Gordon Road, RaleighAssessment3 Sept 2025

Recent amendments

AmendmentStageStatus dateOutcome
Planning Proposal 26 - Amend Minimum Lot Size & Zoning Map at 35 Gordon Road, RaleighAssessment3 Sept 2025Approved
Coffs Harbour LEP 2013 - Rezoning part of Lot 202 DP 874273, Bark Hut Road, WoolgoolgaWithdrawn12 Nov 2021·
Pleasure Point Road, Pleasure PointWithdrawn30 Sept 2021·
Coffs Harbour LEP 2013 - North Boambee Valley (West) Rezoning.Withdrawn28 Nov 2020·
Coffs Harbour LEP 2013 - Bonville Rural Residential Rezoning.Withdrawn28 Nov 2020·

Planning disputes

20 matters naming Coffs Harbour 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 Applicant 3, Mixed 2, Council 1 (across 6 enriched matters).

MatterCourtDecidedOutcome
Coffs Harbour City Council v Noubia Pty Ltd [2024] NSWCA 19 NSWCA12 Feb 2024not on record
Noubia Pty Limited v Coffs Harbour City Council No 3 [2023] NSWLEC 36 NSWLEC31 Mar 2023not on record
Bruckner v Coffs Harbour City Council [2022] NSWSC 1540 NSWSC27 Oct 2022not on record
Coffs Harbour City Council v Noubia Pty Limited [2022] NSWCA 32 NSWCA2 Mar 2022not on record
Noubia Pty Limited v Coffs Harbour City Council (No 2) [2021] NSWLEC 142 NSWLEC25 Nov 2021Interlocutory
Coffs Harbour City Council v Noubia Pty Ltd [2020] NSWCA 142 NSWCA15 July 2020not on record
Noubia Pty Ltd v Coffs Harbour City Council [2019] NSWLEC 113 NSWLEC13 Aug 2019Granted·Applicant
Coffs Harbour City Council v West [2017] NSWLEC 94 NSWLEC28 July 2017Costs·Mixed
Adamson v Coffs Harbour City Council [2017] NSWSC 300 NSWSC28 Mar 2017not on record
Hoy v Coffs Harbour City Council [2016] NSWCA 257 NSWCA8 Sept 2016Dismissed·Mixed
Coffs Harbour City Council v McLeod [2016] NSWCA 94 NSWCA3 May 2016not on record
Hoy v Coffs Harbour City Council (No 2) [2015] NSWLEC 182 NSWLEC26 Nov 2015not on record
Hoy v Coffs Harbour City Council [2015] NSWLEC 128 NSWLEC14 Aug 2015Dismissed·Council
Ainger v Coffs Harbour City Council (No 2) [2007] NSWCA 212 NSWCA16 Aug 2007not on record
Dunlop v Coffs Harbour City Council [2006] NSWLEC 663 NSWLEC28 Apr 2006Dismissed·Applicant

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 Coffs Harbour City Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 5 records held for Coffs Harbour City Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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