Ku-ring-gai Council — Development Application Data
Development assessment times in Ku-ring-gai Council run longer than most Sydney councils, with a median of 94 days from lodgement to determination. The council processed 1,310 applications in the past year, drawing from a database of 4,176 DAs lodged since 2021. One in six applications relies on a Clause 4.6 variation to exceed a development standard such as height or floor space ratio. While the majority of proposals fall into unclassified categories, alterations and additions account for 862 applications, followed by residential flat buildings at 144 and dual occupancies at 93. Development costs span the full spectrum: 1,295 applications valued under $100,000, 951 between $100,000 and $500,000, 750 between $500,000 and $1 million, 832 between $1 million and $5 million, and 188 exceeding $5 million. A Plan Advice AI assessment for your Ku-ring-gai property delivers a detailed feasibility report in seconds.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 100% of DAs in our Ku-ring-gai Council corpus with a confirmed determination. Applications still under assessment, and any whose outcome the council has not published, are excluded rather than estimated.
Why DAs get refused in Ku-ring-gai Council
Grounds cited across 8 refused applications, read from the council's own notices of determination. Most refusals cite several grounds at once, so these overlap.
Behind each ground above sits the verbatim paragraph the assessing officer wrote, the LEP and DCP clauses it was tested against, and the address and DA number so you can pull the notice yourself. 26 grounds across Ku-ring-gai Council are indexed this way.
See the grounds in fullDevelopment type mix
What people are building in Ku-ring-gai Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Ku-ring-gai Council DAs.
Ku-ring-gai 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 Ku-ring-gai Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 4,254 development applications for Ku-ring-gai Council, 1,330 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 Ku-ring-gai Council?
The median assessment time is 94 days for FY25-26, after a median 10 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 Ku-ring-gai Council approve?
97.4% of the 1,857 determined applications we hold were approved and 2.6% were refused. We can read a determination for 100% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
What kinds of development are most common in Ku-ring-gai Council?
The most frequent application types are alterations & additions (866), residential flat building (147), dual occupancy (96).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Ku-ring-gai Council?
698 applications — 16.41% 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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