Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Wellington 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: 133; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 0; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: 85%; of 131 recorded outcomes
Median decision: not on record; lodgement to determination

Development activity

No development application register is published for this council yet. Development application coverage is live for NSW today and expanding; this section will populate once a register is on record for Wellington.

Rezoning pipeline

Proposals still moving through the system here, before they are gazetted. Newest activity first.

Proposal	Stage	Updated
Amendment C122well (Wellington)	Post-exhibition	27 Aug 2026
Amendment C120well (Wellington)	Assessment	24 June 2026

Gazetted per year

From gazettal dates in the register: full history, not observation-window data.

Year	Gazetted
2026	1
2024	1
2023	6
2021	2
2020	2
2019	6
2018	1
2017	7
2016	7
2015	2

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Amendment C122well (Wellington)	Post-exhibition	27 Aug 2026	·
Amendment C120well (Wellington)	Assessment	24 June 2026	·
Amendment C130well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	18 June 2026	Approved
Amendment C121well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	1 May 2024	Approved
Amendment C112well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	1 Nov 2023	Approved
Amendment C116well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	18 Oct 2023	ApprovedWithChanges
Amendment C114well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	18 Oct 2023	ApprovedWithChanges
Amendment C109wellPt1 (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	4 Aug 2023	ApprovedWithChanges
Amendment C115well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	4 Aug 2023	ApprovedWithChanges
Amendment C117well (Wellington)	Approved / gazetted	23 June 2023	Approved
Amendment C109well (Wellington)	Withdrawn	8 June 2023	SplitParent
Amendment C109wellPt2 (Wellington)	Withdrawn	23 Mar 2023	Abandoned

Planning disputes

10 matters naming Wellington 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 4, Applicant 3, Mixed 1 (across 8 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Jeges v Wellington SC [2026] VCAT 563	VCAT	17 July 2026	not on record
Jeges v Wellington SC [2026] VCAT 107	VCAT	16 Feb 2026	Interlocutory
Jeges v Wellington SC [2025] VCAT 963	VCAT	28 Oct 2025	Other·Mixed
Nolan v Wellington SC [2025] VCAT 911	VCAT	21 Oct 2025	Refused·Council
Spilsbury v Wellington SC [2025] VCAT 790	VCAT	8 Sept 2025	Refused·Council
Quarrell v Wellington SC [2025] VCAT 697	VCAT	5 Aug 2025	Granted·Applicant
Tate v Wellington SC [2024] VCAT 423	VCAT	7 May 2024	Dismissed·Council
Andrews v Wellington SC [2023] VCAT 600	VCAT	29 May 2023	Refused·Applicant
Melbourne Hunt Club Inc v Wellington SC [2022] VCAT 1470	VCAT	22 Dec 2022	Granted·Applicant
Katelea Pastoral Pty Ltd v Wellington SC [2021] VCAT 60	VCAT	25 Jan 2021	Refused·Council

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 Wellington dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 133 records held for Wellington. 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