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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Lithgow 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: 3; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 147; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
Median decision: 76 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: 147
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 32
Determined: 110
Withdrawn: 5

The council typically determines an application in a median of 76 days (mean 97), measured across 400 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Lithgow City Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Proposal	Stage	Updated
Former Wallerawang Power Station	Lodged	25 July 2025

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Former Wallerawang Power Station	Lodged	25 July 2025	·
Lithgow LEP 2014 Housekeeping Amendment	Withdrawn	31 Mar 2025	·
Lidsdale Spot Rezoning	Withdrawn	17 June 2021	·

Planning disputes

18 matters naming Lithgow 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 4, Council 3, Mixed 2 (across 9 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Bell Quarry Rehabilitation Project Pty Ltd v Lithgow City Council [2022] NSWLEC 123	NSWLEC	10 Oct 2022	Dismissed·Council
Lithgow City Council v Newera Defendo Pty Ltd [2020] NSWLEC 34	NSWLEC	24 Apr 2020	Costs·Mixed
Lithgow City Council v Newera Defendo Pty Ltd [2019] NSWLEC 188	NSWLEC	5 Dec 2019	not on record
Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) v Miller; Miller v Lithgow City Council [2015] NSWCA 320	NSWCA	15 Oct 2015	not on record
Miller v Lithgow City Council [2014] NSWSC 1579	NSWSC	28 Nov 2014	not on record
Miller v Lithgow City Council [2013] NSWSC 427	NSWSC	30 Apr 2013	not on record
Jackson v Lithgow City Council [2010] NSWCA 136	NSWCA	11 June 2010	not on record
Agonic Holdings Pty Ltd v Lithgow City Council [2009] NSWLEC 34	NSWLEC	2 Apr 2009	Costs·Applicant
Craig William JACKSON v LITHGOW CITY COUNCIL [2008] NSWCA 312	NSWCA	24 Nov 2008	not on record
Environment Protection Authority v Lithgow City Council [2007] NSWLEC 695	NSWLEC	26 Oct 2007	Upheld·Applicant
GREATER LITHGOW CITY COUNCIL v WOLFENDEN [2007] NSWCA 180	NSWCA	16 July 2007	not on record
Cutcliffe v Lithgow City Council [2006] NSWLEC 463	NSWLEC	2 Aug 2006	Costs·Mixed
Cutcliffe and Anor v Lithgow City Council & Ors. [2006] NSWLEC 317	NSWLEC	22 May 2006	Granted·Applicant
Fitzpatrick & Anor v Council of the City of Lithgow & Ors [2004] NSWLEC 109	NSWLEC	20 May 2004	Dismissed·Council
Environment Protection Authority v Lithgow City Council [2003] NSWLEC 425	NSWLEC	18 Aug 2003	Upheld·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 Lithgow City Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

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

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digest: fetched 24 Oct 2026
nsw-caselaw: fetched 30 Oct 2026
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