Planning brief
Rezoning Hub
Penrith City Council
Overview
This brief summarises the planning position for Penrith 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
- 10
- full register history
- Applications, 12 mo
- 804
- lodged in trailing year
- Approval rate
- 75%
- of 4 recorded outcomes
- Median decision
- 56 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
- 804
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 243
- Determined
- 494
- Withdrawn
- 67
The council typically determines an application in a median of 56 days (mean 91), measured across 1,591 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Schofields Station precinct | Lodged | 2 June 2026 |
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schofields Station precinct | Lodged | 2 June 2026 | · |
| Amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Western Parkland City) 2021 | Withdrawn | 12 May 2026 | · |
| Amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Western Parkland City) 2021 | Withdrawn | 11 May 2026 | · |
| Horticulture in the rural zones | Withdrawn | 20 Jan 2025 | Approved |
| Minimum Lot Sizes for Dual Occupancies and Semi-detached Dwellings | Withdrawn | 13 June 2024 | Approved |
| Planning Proposal for 1 Whalan Place, Whalan | Withdrawn | 7 Mar 2024 | Approved |
| Additional permitted use at Whalan | Withdrawn | 8 June 2023 | · |
| Prohibition of Cemeteries & Crematoria in Wallacia - LLEP Amendment 92 | Withdrawn | 15 July 2021 | Rejected |
| Penrith LEP 2010 – Reclassification and rezoning of Council owned land at the corner of Rodgers and Somerset Streets, Kingswood | Withdrawn | 14 Apr 2021 | · |
| Amendment to Growth Centres SEPP - Lot 17 Section 26 DP 1459, 115 Crown Street, Riverstone | Withdrawn | 28 Nov 2020 | · |
Planning disputes
22 matters naming Penrith 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 Council 16, Applicant 1 (across 17 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 10 records held for Penrith City 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.