Development applications in Tamworth Regional Council
We have no rezoning amendments on record for this council yet, but we track its development applications. The figures below are counted directly from the development application register over the last 12 months.
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.
- Total lodged
- 485
- last 12 months
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 111
- Determined
- 355
- Withdrawn
- 19
See all development applications in Tamworth Regional 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
- 61 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 83 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 908
- determined applications
Planning disputes
11 on recordPlanning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Tamworth Regional Council, newest first. Each links to the full public judgment.
| Matter | Court | Decided |
|---|---|---|
| Hopkins v Tamworth Regional Council [2026] NSWLEC 10 COSTS – final | NSWLEC | 16 Feb 2026 |
| Hopkins v Tamworth Regional Council [2025] NSWLEC 146 COSTS – unsuccessful judicial review application by self-represented litigant - indemnity costs sought by respondent local council - partial award of indemnity costs | NSWLEC | 16 Dec 2025 |
| Tamworth Regional Council v Barr Property and Planning Pty Ltd [2025] NSWLEC 110 Appeal – appeal against Commissioner’s decision on question of law – whether misconstruction of statutory definitions – digital advertising sign – whether “roof or sky advertisement” - meaning of preposition “on” in phrases “displayed on” and “erected on” parapet – whether “wall advertisement” – meaning of “fixed flat” to the wall of a building – misconstruction of words and phrases | NSWLEC | 3 Oct 2025 |
| Hopkins v Tamworth Regional Council [2025] NSWLEC 107 JUDICIAL REVIEW – | NSWLEC | 26 Sept 2025 |
| Tamworth Regional Council v Independent Planning Commission [2025] NSWLEC 67 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – notice of motion – dismissal of appeal – state significant development – inherent power to control Court processes – s 8.15(2) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) – whether the second applicant can continue the appeal without the originating party – application dismissed | NSWLEC | 27 June 2025 |
| Hopkins v Tamworth Regional Council [2024] NSWLEC 142 INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATION: application for interim injunctive relief in Class 4 judicial review proceedings – legal principles – whether proceedings brought out of time - whether a serious question to be tried – no serious question to be tried - balance of convenience against granting interim injunction – application dismissed – costs reserved – no evidence that proceedings brought in the public interest warranting a different costs order. | NSWLEC | 20 Dec 2024 |
| Tamworth Regional Council v Johnson (No 2) [2019] NSWLEC 34 INJUNCTION: application for an extension of interim injunctive relief – legal principles to be applied – serious question to be tried – potential for real harm to the environment and human health – usual undertaking as to damages given – balance of convenience favours the granting of further interim relief. | NSWLEC | 28 Mar 2019 |
| Tamworth Regional Council v Johnson [2019] NSWLEC 32 INJUNCTION: urgent ex parte application for interim injunctive relief – legal principles to be applied – appropriate to proceed on an ex parte basis – serious question to be tried – potential for real harm to the environment and human health – usual undertaking as to damages given – balance of convenience favours granting of interim injunction for limited period of duration. | NSWLEC | 25 Mar 2019 |
| Tamworth Regional Council v Hanson [2016] NSWSC 1334 CIVIL – construction of a Deed – whether clause within Deed can act as a bar to proceedings – construction of undefined term within Deed – whether Council empowered to waive rates previously assessed | NSWSC | 21 Sept 2016 |
| Woolcott Group Pty Ltd v Rostry Pty Ltd [2015] NSWLEC 46 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – summary dismissal of appeal – appeal by objector against determination to grant consent to designated development – whether appellant an “objector” – whether appellant made a submission during submission period – what was the submission period – whether submission period was extended expressly or impliedly – submission period can only be extended universally not differentially for persons – only one submission period for public exhibition and making public submissions – | NSWLEC | 27 Mar 2015 |
| Tamworth Regional Council v Scott Arron Wynn-Taylor and Kerrie Alison Wynn-Taylor [2005] NSWLEC 757 Swimming Pools :- statutory requirement for child resistant barrier to surround swimming pool - statutory requirement to erect instructional posters - breaches of statutory requirements - appropriate orders to remedy and restrain breaches | NSWLEC | 19 Dec 2005 |
Discovery signals matched on council name. We link to the public judgment; we do not reproduce its text.
How these numbers are computed
- 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.