Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Singleton 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: 2; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 306; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
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: 306
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 67
Determined: 232
Withdrawn: 7

The council typically determines an application in a median of 34 days (mean 52), measured across 808 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Singleton Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Singleton Council - Amendments to Flood Prone Land Provisions	Withdrawn	25 Aug 2021	·
Gillieston Heights Southern Precinct	Withdrawn	30 Jan 2021	·

Planning disputes

20 matters naming Singleton 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 2, Applicant 2 (across 4 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Hunter Development Brokerage Pty Limited trading as HDB Town Planning and Design v Singleton Council [2022] NSWLEC 64	NSWLEC	3 June 2022	not on record
NSW Electoral Commissioner v Kempsey Shire Council (No 3) [2022] NSWSC 409	NSWSC	5 Apr 2022	not on record
NSW Electoral Commissioner v Kempsey Shire Council (No 2) [2022] NSWSC 282	NSWSC	17 Mar 2022	not on record
NSW Electoral Commissioner v Kempsey Shire Council (No 1) [2022] NSWSC 164	NSWSC	18 Feb 2022	not on record
S J Connelly CPP Pty Ltd and Kate Singleton Pty Ltd t/as Planners North v Northern Regional Planning Panel (No 2) [2019] NSWLEC 199	NSWLEC	19 Dec 2019	not on record
S J Connelly CPP Pty Ltd and Kate Singleton Pty Ltd t/as Planners North (ABN 56 291 496 553) v Northern Regional Planning Panel [2019] NSWLEC 156	NSWLEC	28 Oct 2019	Dismissed·Council
Nichols v Singleton Council (No 3) [2012] NSWSC 367	NSWSC	19 Apr 2012	not on record
Nichols v Singleton Council (No 2) [2011] NSWSC 1517	NSWSC	9 Dec 2011	not on record
Nichols v Singleton Council [2011] NSWSC 946	NSWSC	25 Aug 2011	not on record
Charlton v Moore ( No 3) [2009] NSWLEC 48	NSWLEC	18 Mar 2009	not on record
Charlton v Moore (No 2) [2009] NSWLEC 47	NSWLEC	17 Mar 2009	Interlocutory·Applicant
Charlton v Moore [2009] NSWLEC 61	NSWLEC	16 Mar 2009	not on record
Charlton v Moore [2009] NSWLEC 25	NSWLEC	9 Mar 2009	Other·Council
EUI Pty Limited v Singleton Council [2008] NSWLEC 178	NSWLEC	21 May 2008	Interlocutory·Applicant
SINGLETON SHIRE COUNCIL v. BRODIE & ANOR. [1999] NSWCA 37	NSWCA	16 Mar 1999	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 Singleton Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 2 records held for Singleton Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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