Hunters Hill Council — Development Application Data
Development standard variations are unusually common in Hunters Hill Council, with 40.79% of the 1145 development applications lodged since 2021 seeking relief under Clause 4.6—well above typical Sydney metro rates. The council processed 370 DAs in the past year, with a median assessment time of 95 days. Applications span a wide cost spectrum: 421 came in under $100k, while 280 ranged from $1M to $5M and 17 exceeded $5M. While most applications are classified as Other (842), alterations and additions account for 227 DAs, followed by dual occupancy (34), residential flat buildings (14), and subdivisions (12). The prevalence of variation requests suggests Hunters Hill's planning controls frequently constrain proposals on heritage streetscapes and smaller lots, making site-specific merit arguments critical. A Plan Advice AI assessment for your Hunters Hill property delivers a detailed feasibility read in seconds.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 67.6% of DAs in our Hunters Hill Council corpus with a confirmed determination. Applications still under assessment, and any whose outcome the council has not published, are excluded rather than estimated.
Conditions you should expect
Approval is not the finish line — every consent arrives with conditions. This is what Hunters Hill Council actually imposes, measured from the consent notices it has published.
Conditions marked costs money are the ones to budget for — contributions, bonds, specialist reports and public-domain works.
| 100% | Appoint a principal certifier | |
| 97% | Construction certificate before works start | |
| 88% | Vehicular crossing, footpath and kerb worksCOSTS MONEY | |
| 85% | Erosion and sediment control | |
| 83% | Waste management plan | |
| 70% | Stormwater / on-site detentionCOSTS MONEY | |
| 68% | Tree protection and arborist supervisionCOSTS MONEY | |
| 63% | Section 7.12 levyCOSTS MONEY | |
| 63% | Section 7.11 developer contributionsCOSTS MONEY | |
| 62% | Sydney Water approval (Section 73)COSTS MONEY | |
| 61% | Asbestos / hazardous materials handling | |
| 60% | BASIX commitments |
Based on 178 approvals with a published notice of determination · 6 of the conditions above carry a cost. A condition on most approvals is effectively standard; it is not a guarantee of what any individual consent will say.
Development type mix
What people are building in Hunters Hill Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Hunters Hill Council DAs.
Hunters Hill 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 Hunters Hill Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 1,172 development applications for Hunters Hill Council, 389 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 Hunters Hill Council?
The median assessment time is 95 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 Hunters Hill Council approve?
75.7% of the 703 determined applications we hold were approved and 16.5% were refused. We can read a determination for 67.6% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
What kinds of development are most common in Hunters Hill Council?
The most frequent application types are alterations & additions (230), dual occupancy (34), residential flat building (14).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Hunters Hill Council?
470 applications — 40.1% 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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