How long does rezoning take in Council of the City of Sydney?
Every figure below is computed from the official register records for this council. Counts and gazettal years come from full register history; pipeline duration only from what we have directly observed.
- Active last 12 months
- 1
- by latest status date
- Approval rate
- 100%
- of 4 recorded outcomes
- Observed pipeline duration
- —
- pipeline timing not yet observed
Development applications · last 12 months
Applications lodged in this council in the trailing 12 months, by current status. Counted directly from the development application register.
See all development applications in Council of the City of Sydney
Decision speed
How quickly this council determines a development application, measured from lodgement to determination across every decided application that carries both dates.
- Median time to decision
- 42 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 57 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 4,694
- determined applications
Observed decision timeline
- under assessment to determined
- 24 days
- median across 376 applications
Computed from the status changes we have observed directly since we began tracking transitions, so it is independent of the council's published lodgement and determination dates. Based on 376 applications so far, and it keeps filling in as more move through.
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Gazettal | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 580 George Street, Sydney | Post-exhibition | 19 May 2026 | · | Approved |
| 1-25 O’Connell Street and 8-16 Spring Street, Sydney | Lodged | 30 Sept 2025 | · | Approved |
| Sydney Markets | Lodged | 25 July 2025 | · | · |
| Integrated Planning Proposal for Additional Housing, Biodiversity, Character and the FSPA | Withdrawn | 8 July 2025 | · | Approved |
| Sydney Fish Market site in Blackwattle Bay Precinct | Assessment | 16 June 2025 | · | · |
| Planning Proposal - 133-145 Castlereagh Street, Sydney | Withdrawn | 5 Apr 2023 | · | Approved |
| Planning Proposal - Coastal Hazard Review | Withdrawn | 2 June 2021 | · | · |
Planning disputes
Planning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Council of the City of Sydney. Sort any column, filter by keyword, and click a matter to open the full public judgment. Decisions from the last 12 months.
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How these numbers are computed
- Volume and gazettals per year count register records directly, full history from the source register.
- Approval rate is recorded outcomes beginning “Approved” over all recorded outcomes. Cases still in flight have no outcome and are excluded.
- Observed pipeline duration is the median days between our first and last stage observation for cases we watched move into approved/gazetted: an observed duration accruing since 12 June 2026, not lodgement-to-gazettal elapsed time, which the registers' list data cannot support. Medians are suppressed below 5 observed cases rather than reported on thin samples.
- Development applications are counted directly from the development application register over the trailing 12 months, grouped by their current canonical status. The full list is on the applications page.
- Observed decision timeline is the median time we have directly watched applications spend between stages, measured from our own observation clock rather than the council's published lodgement and determination dates (which the public record sets only after acceptance and so understate the real wait). It starts small and accrues as we observe more applications change stage; the sample size for each step is always shown alongside it.