Central Coast Council — Development Application Data
With 6820 development applications lodged in the past year and 17215 on file since 2021, Central Coast Council manages one of the highest DA volumes in regional NSW. The median assessment time sits at 144 days, reflecting the workload intensity across a council area spanning significant coastal and hinterland development. Just 1.67% of applications invoke Clause 4.6 variations to exceed development standards, indicating relatively straightforward compliance with planning controls. The DA mix is diverse: while 11180 applications fall under Other categories, there's strong activity in alterations and additions at 2950 cases, dual occupancies at 1464, and 310 residential flat buildings. Most applications sit in lower cost bands, with 7532 under $100,000 and 5563 between $100,000 and $500,000, though 314 projects exceed $5 million. A Plan Advice AI assessment for your Central Coast Council property delivers planning insight in seconds.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 99.9% of DAs in our Central Coast 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 Central Coast Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Central Coast Council DAs.
Central Coast 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 Central Coast Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 17,559 development applications for Central Coast Council, 7,015 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 Central Coast Council?
The median assessment time is 144 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 Central Coast Council approve?
85% of the 13,700 determined applications we hold were approved and 2.6% were refused. We can read a determination for 99.9% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
What kinds of development are most common in Central Coast Council?
The most frequent application types are alterations & additions (2,983), dual occupancy (1,491), subdivision (667).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Central Coast Council?
296 applications — 1.69% 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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