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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Willoughby 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: 1; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 424; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
Median decision: 81 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: 424
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 66
Determined: 332
Withdrawn: 26

The council typically determines an application in a median of 81 days (mean 102), measured across 993 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Willoughby City Council

Rezoning pipeline

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

Recent amendments

Amendment	Stage	Status date	Outcome
Comprehensive LEP Amendment 2020 (to align with LSPS & Chatswood CBD Strategy)	Withdrawn	20 Oct 2021	·

Planning disputes

20 matters naming Willoughby 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 10, Applicant 3 (across 13 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
Willoughby City Council v Rahmani [2017] NSWLEC 166	NSWLEC	6 Dec 2017	Other·Council
Willoughby City Council v Screnci [2015] NSWLEC 192	NSWLEC	10 Dec 2015	Dismissed·Applicant
Cavric v Willoughby City Council [2015] NSWCA 182	NSWCA	3 July 2015	not on record
Willoughby City Council v Wu [2014] NSWLEC 165	NSWLEC	20 Oct 2014	not on record
Willoughby City Council v Chen [2014] NSWLEC 92	NSWLEC	3 July 2014	Upheld·Council
Willoughby Council v Vlahos [2013] NSWLEC 71	NSWLEC	16 May 2013	Upheld·Council
Willoughby City Council v Finlay (No.2) [2010] NSWLEC 233	NSWLEC	12 Nov 2010	Upheld·Council
Willoughby City Council v Finlay [2010] NSWLEC 184	NSWLEC	24 Sept 2010	Other·Applicant
Willoughby City Council v BCPD Pty Limited [2010] NSWLEC 163	NSWLEC	31 Aug 2010	Upheld·Council
SKULANDER v WILLOUGHBY CITY COUNCIL [2007] NSWCA 116	NSWCA	18 May 2007	not on record
Randall Pty Limited v Willoughby City Council [2005] NSWLEC 51	NSWLEC	17 Feb 2005	Dismissed·Council
Randall Pty Limited v Willoughby City Council [2004] NSWLEC 295	NSWLEC	11 June 2004	Dismissed·Council
Willoughby City Council v Revelas [2004] NSWLEC 747	NSWLEC	3 June 2004	Upheld·Council
Willoughby City Council v Revelas [2004] NSWLEC 147	NSWLEC	8 Apr 2004	not on record
Willoughby City Council v Revelas [2004] NSWLEC 138	NSWLEC	8 Apr 2004	Upheld·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 Willoughby City Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 1 record held for Willoughby City Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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