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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for North Sydney 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: 4; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 391; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: 100%; of 3 recorded outcomes
Median decision: 72 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: 391
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 88
Determined: 276
Withdrawn: 27

The council typically determines an application in a median of 72 days (mean 85), measured across 925 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in North Sydney Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Planning Proposal 2/23 – 601 Pacific Highway, St Leonards	Withdrawn	4 Aug 2025	Approved
Alfred Street Precinct, North Sydney	Withdrawn	22 May 2025	Approved
North Sydney Centre – Height of Buildings Variation (Clause 6.3)	Withdrawn	21 Apr 2023	Approved
WITHDRAWN - Planning Proposal to allow a maximum building height of 40 metres and a maximum floor space ratio of 5.3:1 for 521 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest.	Withdrawn	12 Sept 2020	·

Planning disputes

23 matters naming North Sydney 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 13, Mixed 2, Applicant 1 (across 16 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Wenli Wang v North Sydney Council [2018] NSWLEC 122	NSWLEC	22 Aug 2018	Refused·Council
Spring v North Sydney Council [2018] NSWSC 463	NSWSC	6 Apr 2018	Dismissed·Council
North Sydney Council v North Sydney Leagues Club Ltd [2017] NSWLEC 69	NSWLEC	14 June 2017	not on record
North Sydney Council v North Sydney Leagues Club Limited (No 2) [2016] NSWLEC 78	NSWLEC	4 July 2016	Interlocutory·Mixed
North Sydney Council v North Sydney Leagues Club Limited [2016] NSWLEC 22	NSWLEC	21 Mar 2016	not on record
North Sydney Council v Perini (No 2) [2013] NSWLEC 91	NSWLEC	26 June 2013	Upheld·Council
North Sydney Council v Perini [2012] NSWLEC 239	NSWLEC	22 Oct 2012	Interlocutory·Applicant
North Sydney Council v Gilmour [2009] NSWLEC 93	NSWLEC	10 June 2009	Upheld·Council
Georgakis v North Sydney Council [2004] NSWLEC 123	NSWLEC	6 Apr 2004	not on record
North Sydney Council v O'Hara (Costs) [2003] NSWLEC 280	NSWLEC	19 Nov 2003	Costs·Council
North Sydney Council v O'Hara [2003] NSWLEC 103	NSWLEC	22 Apr 2003	Interlocutory
North Sydney Council v O'Hara [2003] NSWLEC 105	NSWLEC	18 Mar 2003	not on record
North Sydney Council v O'Hara [2002] NSWLEC 239	NSWLEC	11 Dec 2002	Dismissed·Council
North Sydney Council v Pamela Plater [2002] NSWCA 225	NSWCA	23 Aug 2002	not on record
North Sydney Council v Kluver [2001] NSWLEC 299	NSWLEC	27 Nov 2001	Upheld·Council

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 North Sydney Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 4 records held for North Sydney 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 28 Oct 2026
qld-developmenti: fetched 28 Oct 2026
VIC Amendments Online: fetched 25 Oct 2026
vic-melbourne-da: fetched 27 Oct 2026