Planning brief
Rezoning Hub
Inner West Council
Overview
This brief summarises the planning position for Inner West 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
- 1,508
- lodged in trailing year
- Approval rate
- 100%
- of 4 recorded outcomes
- Median decision
- 62 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
- 1,508
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 269
- Determined
- 1,143
- Withdrawn
- 96
The council typically determines an application in a median of 62 days (mean 79), measured across 3,676 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.
Rezoning pipeline
Proposals still moving through the system here, before they are gazetted. Newest activity first.
| Proposal | Stage | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| PLANNING PROPOSAL - 79-81 QUEENS ROAD AND 2-12 SPENCER STREET, FIVE DOCK | Assessment | 5 May 2026 |
| PARRAMATTA ROAD CORRIDOR STAGE 1 PLANNING PROPOSAL - INNER WEST LEP PHASE 2A | Post-exhibition | 20 Nov 2024 |
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLANNING PROPOSAL - 79-81 QUEENS ROAD AND 2-12 SPENCER STREET, FIVE DOCK | Assessment | 5 May 2026 | Approved |
| Planning Proposal – 242-258 Young Street, Waterloo | Withdrawn | 1 Sept 2025 | Approved |
| PARRAMATTA ROAD CORRIDOR STAGE 1 PLANNING PROPOSAL - INNER WEST LEP PHASE 2A | Post-exhibition | 20 Nov 2024 | Approved |
| Rezone land at 'Ashfield Reservoir' 165-169 Holden Street Ashbury | Withdrawn | 20 Jan 2022 | Approved |
| Amend Marrickville LEP 2011 to rezone land at 58-76 Stanmore Road, 2-20 Tupper Street and 3-9 Alma Street Stanmore | Withdrawn | 24 Mar 2021 | · |
| WITHDRAWN - Marrickville Local Environmental Plan 2011 Amendment - 2-18 Station Street and 1 Leofrene Avenue, Marrickville | Withdrawn | 30 Jan 2021 | · |
| Planning proposal to rezone light industrial land at 15-33 Brighton Street, Croydon Park, to residential uses, and amend the planning controls (300 dwellings; 0 jobs) | Withdrawn | 24 Dec 2020 | · |
| Planning Proposal to amend Marrickville LEP 2011 to rezone 183 and 203 New Canterbury Road, Lewisham from IN2 Light Industrial to R4 High Density Residential and R2 Low Density Residential respectively and amend development standards (20 dwellings, 0 jobs) | Withdrawn | 12 Sept 2020 | · |
Planning disputes
20 matters naming Inner West 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, Applicant 3 (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 Inner West 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 27 Oct 2026
- nsw-online-da
- fetched 26 Oct 2026
- NSW Planning Portal (PPR)
- fetched 27 Oct 2026
- qld-developmenti
- fetched 27 Oct 2026
- VIC Amendments Online
- fetched 25 Oct 2026
- vic-melbourne-da
- fetched 27 Oct 2026
Data © state planning departments, licensed CC BY 4.0. Prepared by Rezoning Hub, rezoninghub.com.