Blacktown City Council — Development Application Data
Blacktown City Council processes one of Sydney's largest development pipelines, with 4827 applications lodged in the past 12 months across a council area where residential growth remains constant. With 12464 DAs on file since 2021, the development profile is heavily weighted toward smaller projects, evidenced by 5247 applications in the $100k–$500k cost band and 2964 under $100k. The median assessment timeframe sits at 102 days, while clause 4.6 variation requests appear in just 1.01% of applications, suggesting most proposals align with standard controls. Dual occupancies represent the second most common development type at 877 applications, trailing only the broad 'Other' category, while subdivision applications number 642. Alterations and additions account for 788 DAs, with residential flat buildings at 256 reflecting medium-density interest in selected precincts. A Plan Advice AI-powered assessment for your Blacktown City Council property delivers planning insights in seconds.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 95.1% of DAs in our Blacktown City Council corpus with a confirmed determination. Applications still under assessment, and any whose outcome the council has not published, are excluded rather than estimated.
Development type mix
What people are building in Blacktown City Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Blacktown City Council DAs.
Blacktown City Council DAs — common questions
Answered from this council's own determinations. Where a council has not published a figure, the question is left out rather than guessed.
How many development applications does Blacktown City Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 12,615 development applications for Blacktown City Council, 4,806 of them lodged in the last 12 months. The figures on this page are counted from that register, not estimated.
How long does a DA take in Blacktown City Council?
The median assessment time is 102 days for FY25-26, after a median 13 days to get the application accepted for lodgement. That is the council's own reported figure from the NSW Planning Portal league tables, so it covers every DA they determined — not a sample.
What share of DAs does Blacktown City Council approve?
88.1% of the 7,614 determined applications we hold were approved and 7.9% were refused. We can read a determination for 95.1% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
What kinds of development are most common in Blacktown City Council?
The most frequent application types are dual occupancy (891), alterations & additions (796), subdivision (665).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Blacktown City Council?
127 applications — 1.01% of the register — sought a clause 4.6 variation to a development standard.
Most recent development applications
Sampled from the NSW Planning Portal open-data feed.
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