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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Cowra Shire Council from the official register record. No rezoning amendments are on record for this council yet; the figures below are counted directly from its development application register and its planning-dispute history.

Rezonings tracked: 0; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 130; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
Median decision: 22 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: 130
Lodged: 1
Under assessment: 22
Determined: 107
Withdrawn: 0

The council typically determines an application in a median of 22 days (mean 39), measured across 317 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Cowra Shire Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Planning disputes

19 matters naming Cowra 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 2, Mixed 1 (across 12 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
McCudden v Cowra Shire Council [2016] NSWLEC 14	NSWLEC	11 Mar 2016	not on record
McCudden v Cowra Shire Council [2015] NSWLEC 181	NSWLEC	20 Nov 2015	not on record
Cowra Shire Council v Fuller [2015] NSWLEC 13	NSWLEC	9 Feb 2015	Upheld·Council
Cowra Shire Council v Fuller [2015] NSWLEC 4	NSWLEC	30 Jan 2015	Dismissed·Council
NRS Group Pty Ltd v Cowra Shire Council [2008] NSWLEC 156	NSWLEC	28 Apr 2008	Dismissed·Council
Cranky Rock Road Action Group Inc & Anor v Cowra Shire Council & Ors [2006] NSWCA 339	NSWCA	5 Dec 2006	Upheld·Council
Noble, M J & Anor v Thompson, C R & Anor; Cowra Shire Council v Thompson, C R & Anor [2006] NSWLEC 583	NSWLEC	19 Sept 2006	Dismissed·Applicant
Cranky Rock Road Action Group Inc v Cowra Shire Council and CPC Land and Peter Grant Crampton & Brian John Pattinson [2006] NSWLEC 159	NSWLEC	4 Apr 2006	Dismissed·Council
Cranky Rock Road Action Group Inc. v Cowra Shire Council and Ors. [2005] NSWLEC 674	NSWLEC	9 Dec 2005	Dismissed·Council
Cowra Shire Council v Trudgett [2004] NSWCA 9	NSWCA	17 Feb 2004	not on record
Noble v Cowra Shire Council [2003] NSWLEC 178	NSWLEC	31 July 2003	Dismissed·Council
Noble and Anor v Cowra Shire Council [2001] NSWLEC 149	NSWLEC	19 July 2001	Dismissed·Council
Cowra Shire Council v The Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning & Anor [No.2] [2001] NSWLEC 113	NSWLEC	4 June 2001	Dismissed·Council
Cowra Shire Council v The Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning & Anor [2001] NSWLEC 63	NSWLEC	4 Apr 2001	Dismissed·Applicant
Maloney v Cowra Shire Council [2000] NSWLEC 107	NSWLEC	8 June 2000	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 Cowra Shire Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 130 records held for Cowra Shire Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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