Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Waverley 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: 628; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: 100%; of 3 recorded outcomes
Median decision: 63 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: 628
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 132
Determined: 458
Withdrawn: 38

The council typically determines an application in a median of 63 days (mean 81), measured across 1,597 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Waverley Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
34-36 Flood Street, Bondi Heritage Listing	Withdrawn	13 June 2024	Approved
Waverley Council Affordable Housing Contributions Scheme Planning Proposal	Withdrawn	26 Oct 2023	Approved
Charing Square - 203-231 Bronte Road and 94-98 Carrington Road, Waverley	Withdrawn	16 Mar 2023	Approved
203-231 Bronte Road and 94-98 Carrington Road, Waverley	Withdrawn	23 Aug 2021	·
Rezone land to B4 Mixed Use and apply Active Street Frontage at 122 Bronte Road, Bondi Junction	Withdrawn	12 Sept 2020	·

Planning disputes

22 matters naming Waverley 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 7, Applicant 4, Mixed 1 (across 12 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Rodney Duarte v Waverley Council [2022] NSWLEC 53	NSWLEC	9 May 2022	Dismissed·Council
Whitfield v Waverley Council [2015] NSWLEC 207	NSWLEC	10 Dec 2015	Granted·Applicant
SDHA Pty Ltd v Waverley Council [2015] NSWLEC 65	NSWLEC	24 Apr 2015	Dismissed·Council
Waverley Council v Walsh [2014] NSWLEC 195	NSWLEC	19 Dec 2014	Upheld·Council
Goldberg v Waverley Council [2008] NSWLEC 49	NSWLEC	3 Mar 2008	Granted·Applicant
Notaras v Waverley Council & Anor [2007] NSWCA 333	NSWCA	26 Nov 2007	Dismissed·Council
Goldberg v Waverley Council [2007] NSWLEC 259	NSWLEC	25 May 2007	Other
Waverley Council v Ferreira [2005] NSWCA 418	NSWCA	1 Dec 2005	not on record
Waverley Council v Boris Meck [2005] NSWLEC 655	NSWLEC	20 Sept 2005	Upheld·Council
Segal & Anor v Waverley Council [2005] NSWCA 310	NSWCA	15 Sept 2005	not on record
Molnar v Waverley Council [2005] NSWLEC 308	NSWLEC	9 June 2005	Costs·Mixed
C M Hairis Architects v Waverley Council [2003] NSWLEC 404	NSWLEC	19 Dec 2003	Dismissed·Applicant
Trustees of the Christian Brothers (Waverley College) v Waverley Council [2003] NSWLEC 176	NSWLEC	15 July 2003	Interlocutory·Applicant
WAVERLEY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL v SWAIN [2003] NSWCA 61	NSWCA	3 Apr 2003	not on record
Waverley Municipal Council v Cheowiry [2003] NSWCA 12	NSWCA	5 Feb 2003	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 Waverley Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 5 records held for Waverley 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 28 Oct 2026
nsw-online-da: fetched 26 Oct 2026
NSW Planning Portal (PPR): fetched 29 Oct 2026
qld-developmenti: fetched 28 Oct 2026
VIC Amendments Online: fetched 25 Oct 2026
vic-melbourne-da: fetched 28 Oct 2026