Planning brief
Rezoning Hub
Wollongong City Council
Overview
This brief summarises the planning position for Wollongong 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
- 9
- full register history
- Applications, 12 mo
- 1,152
- lodged in trailing year
- Approval rate
- 100%
- of 2 recorded outcomes
- Median decision
- 45 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
- 1,152
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 279
- Determined
- 823
- Withdrawn
- 50
The council typically determines an application in a median of 45 days (mean 75), measured across 2,820 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.
Rezoning pipeline
Proposals still moving through the system here, before they are gazetted. Newest activity first.
| Proposal | Stage | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| Wollongong LEP 2009 - Minor Clause Amendments | Post-exhibition | 9 Feb 2026 |
| Port Kembla Land Transformation Precinct | Assessment | 11 Dec 2025 |
| Wollongong Health Precinct | Lodged | 24 Feb 2026 |
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wollongong Health Precinct | Lodged | 24 Feb 2026 | · |
| Wollongong LEP 2009 - Minor Clause Amendments | Post-exhibition | 9 Feb 2026 | Approved |
| Port Kembla Land Transformation Precinct | Assessment | 11 Dec 2025 | · |
| 3-13 Short Street, and 312-324 Princes Highway, Corrimal, and 15 Short Street Corrimal | Withdrawn | 20 Mar 2022 | Approved |
| Woonona Bulli RSL Club rezoning | Withdrawn | 6 Sept 2021 | · |
| Former Corrimal Coke Works | Withdrawn | 15 July 2021 | · |
| Amendment to Wollongong LEP 2009 - Rezone Old Port Kembla School Site to R3 and Gallipoli Park to RE1 | Withdrawn | 18 June 2021 | · |
| Sheaffes Road South - Kembla Grange | Withdrawn | 30 Jan 2021 | · |
| Corrimal & Beach Streets, Wollongong - increase height & floor space ratio | Withdrawn | 30 Jan 2021 | · |
Planning disputes
20 matters naming Wollongong 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 7, Mixed 2, Applicant 1 (across 10 enriched matters).
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 Wollongong City Council dispute in the national list
Sources and provenance
This brief is computed from 9 records held for Wollongong 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
- 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
Data © state planning departments, licensed CC BY 4.0. Prepared by Rezoning Hub, rezoninghub.com.