How long does rezoning take in Richmond Valley 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 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
- 36 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 44 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 480
- determined applications
Observed decision timeline
- under assessment to determined
- 34 days
- median across 46 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 46 applications so far, and it keeps filling in as more move through.
Recent amendments
| Amendment | Stage | Status date | Gazettal | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmers Island Rural Supplies store | Withdrawn | 15 Aug 2023 | · | Approved |
| PP2019/0001 - Industrial Land Rezoning - 3243 Bruxner Highway (Hare Street) Casino | Withdrawn | 15 June 2022 | · | Approved |
| PP2019/0003 - Industrial Land Rezoning - Bruxner Highway (Johnston Street) Casino | Withdrawn | 15 June 2022 | · | Approved |
| Richmond Valley LEP 2012 - Rezone Lots 100 to 111 DP 755627 Bruxner Highway, Casino, from RU1 Primary Production to IN1 General Industrial and apply a 750m2 minimum lot size | Withdrawn | 25 Aug 2021 | · | Approved |
| Rezoning of land at 48 Lincoln Avenue and Amendment to the minimum lot size at 49 Lincoln Avenue, McLeans Ridges | Withdrawn | 25 Aug 2021 | · | · |
| Rezoning Johnston Street, Casino from from RU1 Primary Production to IN1 General Industrial | Withdrawn | 13 May 2021 | · | · |
Planning disputes
Planning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Richmond Valley Council. Sort any column, filter by keyword, and click a matter to open the full public judgment. Decisions from the last 12 months.
Showing 1–1 of 1
| Catchwords | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| MacLean v Richmond Valley Council [2026] NSWCA 66 | NSWCA | 22 Apr 2026 | APPEALS — Leave to appeal — appeal brought out of time — extension of time granted — application for leave to appeal from a decision that the Council did not owe and did not breach the duty of care alleged — issues of principle — leave to appeal granted NEGLIGENCE — Personal injury — pedestrian tripped against a “raised lip” on concrete footpath in early morning light — internal Council policy for the assessment and maintenance of footpaths — whether Council owed a duty of care to respond to the |
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.