How long does rezoning take in Penrith City 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
- 3
- by latest status date
- Approval rate
- 75%
- 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.
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
- 56 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 91 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 1,591
- determined applications
Observed decision timeline
- under assessment to determined
- 29 days
- median across 144 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 144 applications so far, and it keeps filling in as more move through.
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Gazettal | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schofields Station precinct | Lodged | 2 June 2026 | · | · |
| Amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Western Parkland City) 2021 | Withdrawn | 12 May 2026 | · | · |
| Amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Western Parkland City) 2021 | Withdrawn | 11 May 2026 | · | · |
| Horticulture in the rural zones | Withdrawn | 20 Jan 2025 | · | Approved |
| Minimum Lot Sizes for Dual Occupancies and Semi-detached Dwellings | Withdrawn | 13 June 2024 | · | Approved |
| Planning Proposal for 1 Whalan Place, Whalan | Withdrawn | 7 Mar 2024 | · | Approved |
| Additional permitted use at Whalan | Withdrawn | 8 June 2023 | · | · |
| Prohibition of Cemeteries & Crematoria in Wallacia - LLEP Amendment 92 | Withdrawn | 15 July 2021 | · | Rejected |
| Penrith LEP 2010 – Reclassification and rezoning of Council owned land at the corner of Rodgers and Somerset Streets, Kingswood | Withdrawn | 14 Apr 2021 | · | · |
| Amendment to Growth Centres SEPP - Lot 17 Section 26 DP 1459, 115 Crown Street, Riverstone | Withdrawn | 28 Nov 2020 | · | · |
Planning disputes
Planning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Penrith City Council. Sort any column, filter by keyword, and click a matter to open the full public judgment. Decisions from the last 12 months.
Showing 1–4 of 4
| Catchwords | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Gay Michalek v Penrith City Council (No 2) [2026] NSWLEC 37 | NSWLEC | 17 Apr 2026 | COSTS – unsuccessful applicant for interlocutory injunction ordered to pay costs of respondent – no public interest identified – usual rule that costs follow the event applied |
| Geetha Rajagopalan v Penrith City Council [2026] NSWLEC 44 | NSWLEC | 15 Apr 2026 | CRIME – appeals – appeal against conviction and sentence – failure to comply with a development control order s 9.37(1) of the Environment Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) – appeal against severity of sentence – s 10(1) of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) |
| Karnauchow v Penrith City Council [2026] NSWLEC 17 | NSWLEC | 25 Feb 2026 | PROCEDURE: application to strike out expert report on the grounds of criminal perjury – claim for compensation in the sum of $250,000 – expert report not yet in evidence – power to award compensation not engaged because appeal not yet determined – motion dismissed. |
| Rajagopalan v Penrith City Council [2026] NSWLEC 28 | NSWLEC | 20 Feb 2026 | APPEAL – Criminal procedure – Notice of motion for suppression and non-publication order – Notice of motion dismissed |
Discovery signals matched on council name. We link to the public judgment; we do not reproduce its text.
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.