Lane Cove Council — Development Application Data
Development assessment in Lane Cove moves at a moderate pace, with applications taking a median 48 days to determine. Since 2021, the council has processed 1874 DAs, with 650 lodged in the past year alone. The majority fall under 'Other' development types at 1198 applications, followed by alterations and additions at 440. What stands out is the council's measured approach to planning controls—just 7.47% of applications invoke Clause 4.6 variations to development standards, suggesting most projects conform to existing zoning rules. Cost distribution is broad: 703 applications under $100k, 440 between $100k and $500k, 262 from $500k to $1M, 304 from $1M to $5M, and 116 above $5M. Residential flat buildings account for 112 applications, while dual occupancies and subdivisions remain less common at 27 and 33 respectively. A Plan Advice AI-powered assessment for your Lane Cove property takes seconds to run.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 99.1% of DAs in our Lane Cove 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 Lane Cove Council
Grounds cited across 3 refused applications, read from the council's own notices of determination. Most recent determination indexed: October 2024. 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. 29 grounds across Lane Cove Council are indexed this way.
See the grounds in fullDevelopment type mix
What people are building in Lane Cove Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Lane Cove Council DAs.
Lane Cove 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 Lane Cove Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 1,901 development applications for Lane Cove Council, 654 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 Lane Cove Council?
The median assessment time is 48 days for FY25-26, after a median 17 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 Lane Cove Council approve?
88.1% of the 1,961 determined applications we hold were approved and 4% were refused. We can read a determination for 99.1% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
What kinds of development are most common in Lane Cove Council?
The most frequent application types are alterations & additions (443), residential flat building (114), subdivision (33).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Lane Cove Council?
141 applications — 7.42% 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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