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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Kempsey 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: 3; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 297; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
Median decision: 85 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: 297
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 68
Determined: 218
Withdrawn: 11

The council typically determines an application in a median of 85 days (mean 109), measured across 699 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Kempsey Shire Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Kempsey LEP 2013 - Amendment No 24 - to allow a highway service centre as an additional permitted use on Lot 200 DP1177619, 600 Macleay Valley Way Kempsey	Withdrawn	1 July 2021	·
Kempsey CBD Flood Planning	Withdrawn	3 June 2021	·
Kempsey LEP 2013 - Amendment No 23 rezoning of vaious lots from RU1, RU2 and RU5 Village to R1 - Fredrickton	Withdrawn	28 Nov 2020	·

Planning disputes

19 matters naming Kempsey 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, Mixed 3 (across 15 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
2 Phillip Rise Pty Ltd v Kempsey Shire Council (No 2) [2023] NSWLEC 56	NSWLEC	30 May 2023	Costs·Applicant
2 Phillip Rise Pty Ltd v Kempsey Shire Council [2023] NSWLEC 28	NSWLEC	22 Mar 2023	Granted·Applicant
Kempsey Shire Council v Five Star Medical Centre Pty Ltd [2018] NSWCA 308	NSWCA	13 Dec 2018	not on record
Slade v Kempsey Shire Council [2018] NSWCA 25	NSWCA	23 Feb 2018	Dismissed·Council
Kempsey Shire Council v Slade (No 2) [2017] NSWLEC 10	NSWLEC	27 Feb 2017	Other·Mixed
Kempsey Shire Council v Slade [2015] NSWLEC 135	NSWLEC	21 Aug 2015	Upheld·Council
Kempsey Shire Council v M A Roche Group Pty Ltd [2012] NSWLEC 211	NSWLEC	10 Sept 2012	Upheld·Council
Kempsey Shire Council v Thrush (No 2) [2011] NSWLEC 130	NSWLEC	29 July 2011	Costs·Council
Kempsey Shire Council v Thrush & Anor [2011] NSWLEC 93	NSWLEC	27 May 2011	Upheld·Council
Kempsey Shire Council v Glenice Baguley [2010] NSWCA 284	NSWCA	8 Nov 2010	Dismissed·Council
Ryding v Kempsey Shire Council [2008] NSWLEC 306	NSWLEC	11 Nov 2008	not on record
Kempsey Shire Council v Tebran Pty Limited (No 2) [2008] NSWLEC 64	NSWLEC	1 Feb 2008	not on record
Kempsey Shire Council v Tebran Pty Limited [2007] NSWLEC 731	NSWLEC	8 Nov 2007	Dismissed·Applicant
Buchholz v Kempsey Shire Council [2005] NSWSC 235	NSWSC	18 Mar 2005	Dismissed·Council
Walker v Kempsey Shire Council [2003] NSWLEC 56	NSWLEC	22 Feb 2002	Costs·Mixed

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 Kempsey Shire Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 3 records held for Kempsey Shire Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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