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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Shoalhaven 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: 5; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 1,226; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: 100%; of 1 recorded outcome
Median decision: 57 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: 1,226
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 282
Determined: 911
Withdrawn: 33

The council typically determines an application in a median of 57 days (mean 80), measured across 2,959 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Shoalhaven City Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Darkes Lane, Swan Bay	Withdrawn	7 Mar 2024	·
Rezone part of 48 Campbell Street, Gerringong to facilitate residential development	Withdrawn	4 Aug 2022	Approved
Planning Proposal - Lots 7 & 8 Section 3, DP758530 Huskisson Former Anglican Church	Withdrawn	20 July 2022	·
Planning Proposal - Lot 5 DP 1225356 Sealark Road Callala Bay	Withdrawn	17 Dec 2021	·
Glennifer Brae - Reclassification and rezoning	Withdrawn	6 Sept 2021	·

Planning disputes

20 matters naming Shoalhaven 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 8, Applicant 2, Mixed 2 (across 12 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Scarf v Shoalhaven City Council [2021] NSWLEC 128	NSWLEC	15 Nov 2021	Dismissed·Council
Grant William Clarke v Shoalhaven City Council (No 2) [2021] NSWLEC 8	NSWLEC	12 Feb 2021	not on record
De Battista v Shoalhaven City Council [2020] NSWLEC 164	NSWLEC	27 Nov 2020	Dismissed·Council
Shoalhaven City Council v Knight [2019] NSWLEC 138	NSWLEC	30 Sept 2019	Upheld·Council
Shoalhaven City Council v Igor Lepan [2018] NSWLEC 57	NSWLEC	20 Apr 2018	Upheld·Council
Seraglio v Shoalhaven City Council [2017] NSWLEC 45	NSWLEC	26 Apr 2017	Granted·Applicant
Morton v Shoalhaven City Council [2016] NSWLEC 67	NSWLEC	9 June 2016	Dismissed·Council
Shoalhaven City Council v Knight [2014] NSWLEC 132	NSWLEC	22 Aug 2014	Interlocutory·Mixed
Shoalhaven City Council v Humphries [2013] NSWCA 390	NSWCA	22 Nov 2013	not on record
McDonald v Shoalhaven City Council [2013] NSWCA 81	NSWCA	18 Apr 2013	not on record
Shoalhaven City Council v Ellis [2012] NSWLEC 225	NSWLEC	27 Sept 2012	Upheld·Council
Seyffer v Shoalhaven City Council [2006] NSWLEC 564	NSWLEC	8 Sept 2006	Upheld·Council
TIMBS v SHOALHAVEN CITY COUNCIL [2004] NSWCA 81	NSWCA	1 Apr 2004	not on record
Sealark P/L v Shoalhaven City Council [2002] NSWCA 39	NSWCA	28 Feb 2002	Dismissed·Council
Shoalhaven City Council v Smith [2001] NSWCA 469	NSWCA	13 Dec 2001	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 Shoalhaven City Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 5 records held for Shoalhaven 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
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NSW Planning Portal (PPR): fetched 27 Oct 2026
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