How long does rezoning take in The Hills Shire 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 8 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
- 64 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 90 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 3,742
- determined applications
Observed decision timeline
- under assessment to determined
- 25 days
- median across 302 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 302 applications so far, and it keeps filling in as more move through.
Recent amendments
Planning disputes
Planning and environment court and tribunal matters naming The Hills Shire Council. Sort any column, filter by keyword, and click a matter to open the full public judgment. Decisions from the last 12 months.
Showing 1–6 of 6
| Catchwords | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Caterson Champions Inc. v The Hills Shire Council (No 5) [2026] NSWLEC 82 | NSWLEC | 6 July 2026 | PROCEDURE: late application to amend pleadings – applicable legal principles – inadequacy of explanation for delay in filing application – whether any genuine prejudice to the non-amending party – leave to amend granted |
| Fred Caterson Champions Inc. v The Hills Shire Council (No 4) [2026] NSWLEC 55 | NSWLEC | 12 May 2026 | COSTS – whether costs thrown away should be ordered payable after decision to allow vacation of hearing dates has been determined – each party to pay own costs |
| Fred Caterson Champions Inc trading as Fred Caterson Champions v The Hills Shire Council trading as The Hills Shire Council [2026] NSWCA 24 | NSWCA | 10 Mar 2026 | APPEALS – leave to appeal – where application for leave to rely on expert report refused in the Land and Environment Court – whether leave to appeal should be granted to reconsider that decision |
| Fred Caterson Champions Inc v The Hills Shire Council (No 3) [2026] NSWLEC 16 | NSWLEC | 19 Feb 2026 | INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION – application for interlocutory order restraining work by local council of development of playing fields – whether serious question to be tried – whether irreparable harm caused if no order made – claim of acting in public interest – balance of convenience – delay in making application – application dismissed |
| Fred Caterson Champions Inc. v The Hills Shire Council (No 2) [2026] NSWLEC 11 | NSWLEC | 10 Feb 2026 | PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – stay of proceedings ordered to enable appeal of interlocutory |
| Fred Caterson Champions Inc. trading as Fred Caterson Champions v The Hills Shire Council trading as The Hills Shire Council [2025] NSWLEC 139 | NSWLEC | 4 Dec 2025 | NOTICE OF MOTION – application for extension of time for commencing proceedings – r 59.10(2) of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 – application for expert evidence in Class 4 judicial review proceedings – r 31.19 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 |
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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.