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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Shellharbour 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: 760; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: 0%; of 1 recorded outcome
Median decision: 34 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: 760
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 124
Determined: 623
Withdrawn: 13

The council typically determines an application in a median of 34 days (mean 54), measured across 1,642 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Shellharbour City Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Rezoning of Site H at Pasminco Cockle Creek Smelter Pty Ltd	Withdrawn	24 Feb 2022	Rejected
Shellharbour LGA - Heritage listing of Northern boundary	Withdrawn	30 Jan 2021	·
Review of former 7(d) zone at Helensburgh, Otford and Stanwell Tops	Withdrawn	30 Jan 2021	·

Planning disputes

20 matters naming Shellharbour 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 Mixed 6, Applicant 2, Council 2 (across 10 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
JV Co.8 Pty Ltd v Council of the City of Shellharbour [2024] NSWSC 1249	NSWSC	17 Sept 2024	Interlocutory·Mixed
Williams v Shellharbour City Council [2020] NSWLEC 3	NSWLEC	6 Feb 2020	not on record
Williams v Shellharbour City Council [2019] NSWLEC 135	NSWLEC	25 Sept 2019	Interlocutory·Mixed
Capocchiano v Shellharbour City Council [2015] NSWLEC 28	NSWLEC	27 Feb 2015	Granted·Mixed
Altz Pty Limited v Shellharbour City Council [2014] NSWLEC 147	NSWLEC	7 Aug 2014	Interlocutory·Applicant
Shellharbour City Council v Altz Pty Ltd [2014] NSWLEC 57	NSWLEC	13 May 2014	not on record
Shellharbour City Council v Minister For Planning [2012] NSWLEC 29	NSWLEC	29 Feb 2012	not on record
Shellharbour City Council v Cooper [2010] NSWLEC 122	NSWLEC	9 July 2010	Upheld·Council
Shellharbour City Council v Stewart [2008] NSWLEC 216	NSWLEC	23 June 2008	not on record
Shellharbour City Council v Stewart [2008] NSWLEC 151	NSWLEC	23 Apr 2008	not on record
Shellharbour City Council v Stewart [2008] NSWLEC 69	NSWLEC	13 Feb 2008	not on record
Neate v Shellharbour City Council (No 2) [2007] NSWLEC 541	NSWLEC	28 Aug 2007	Remitted·Council
Neate v Shellharbour City Council [2007] NSWLEC 526	NSWLEC	21 Aug 2007	Varied·Mixed
Shellharbour City Council v Johnson [No 2] [2006] NSWCA 114	NSWCA	5 July 2006	not on record
Shellharbour City Council v Johnson [2006] NSWCA 67	NSWCA	6 Apr 2006	not on record

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 Shellharbour City Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

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

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