How long does rezoning take in Northern Beaches Council?
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
- 0
- by latest status date
- Approval rate
- 100%
- of 2 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 Northern Beaches Council
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
- 59 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 76 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 4,350
- determined applications
Observed decision timeline
- under assessment to determined
- 38 days
- median across 296 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 296 applications so far, and it keeps filling in as more move through.
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Gazettal | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Proposal for a 'Health and wellbeing precinct' at 150 Darley Road, Manly | Withdrawn | 1 Sept 2025 | · | Approved |
| 2 & 4 NOOAL STREET & 66 BARDO ROAD, NEWPORT | Withdrawn | 12 Oct 2022 | · | Approved |
| 114-120 Old Pittwater Road, Brookvale | Withdrawn | 12 Oct 2022 | · | · |
| To amend Pittwater LEP 2014 to enable seniors housing at 2 & 4 Nooal Street and 66 Bardo Road, Newport | Withdrawn | 25 May 2021 | · | · |
| Additional permitted uses and an increase in building height at 1294-1300 Pittwater Road and 2-4 Albert Street, Narrabeen | Withdrawn | 24 Mar 2021 | · | · |
| Planning proposal to rezone deferred land within the Oxford Falls Valley & Belrose North area (0 dwellings, 0 jobs) | Withdrawn | 30 Jan 2021 | · | · |
Planning disputes
Planning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Northern Beaches Council. Sort any column, filter by keyword, and click a matter to open the full public judgment. Decisions from the last 12 months.
Showing 1–2 of 2
| Catchwords | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Logan Rural Holdings Pty Ltd v Northern Beaches Council [2026] NSWLEC 72 | NSWLEC | 17 June 2026 | COMPENSATION – appeal of s 124 order under Local Government Act discontinued – s 124 order revoked – whether legal costs and disbursements of appeal payable by respondent as compensation under s 181 Local Government Act COSTS – appeal of s 124 order under Local Government Act discontinued – s 124 order revoked – whether costs payable by the respondent under r 3.7 of Land and Environment Court Rules |
| Northern Beaches Council v Vigor Master Pty Ltd [2025] NSWLEC 136 | NSWLEC | 27 Nov 2025 | APPEAL – appeal against Commissioner’s decision on a question of law – whether inconsistency between different statutes and statutory instrument – whether misconstruction of statutory provision for resolving inconsistency – whether misconstruction of statutory provisions supposed to be inconsistent – whether actual inconsistency between statutory provisions |
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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.