Liverpool City Council — Development Application Data
Liverpool City Council processes a substantial volume of development applications—1,807 lodged in the past year alone from a total of 6,758 on file since 2021—but assessments here take time, with a median of 146 days from lodgement to determination. The council's development landscape is dominated by "Other" development types at 4,527 applications, followed by dual occupancy at 600 and subdivisions at 561, while cost bands are fairly evenly distributed from projects under $100,000 (2,117 DAs) through to those exceeding $5 million (390 DAs). Clause 4.6 variations to vary development standards appear in just 1.07% of applications. When the council does refuse applications, the grounds cited include insufficient information submitted by the applicant, site unsuitability under section 4.15(1)(c), and proposals deemed contrary to the public interest under section 4.15(1)(e). A Plan Advice AI-powered assessment for your Liverpool 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 99.6% of DAs in our Liverpool 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.
Why DAs get refused in Liverpool City Council
Grounds cited across 31 refused applications, read from the council's own notices of determination. Most recent determination indexed: July 2026. 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. 177 grounds across Liverpool City Council are indexed this way.
See the grounds in fullDevelopment type mix
What people are building in Liverpool City Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Liverpool City Council DAs.
Liverpool 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 Liverpool City Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 6,885 development applications for Liverpool City Council, 1,891 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 Liverpool City Council?
The median assessment time is 146 days for FY25-26, after a median 19 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 Liverpool City Council approve?
96.8% of the 6,223 determined applications we hold were approved and 3.1% were refused. We can read a determination for 99.6% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
Why are DAs refused in Liverpool City Council?
Across 31 refused applications, the grounds cited most often are insufficient information submitted by applicant (24 refusals), contrary to the public interest (s4.15(1)(e)) (21 refusals), site not suitable for the development (s4.15(1)(c)) (17 refusals). These are read from the council's own notices of determination, and most refusals cite several grounds at once.
What kinds of development are most common in Liverpool City Council?
The most frequent application types are dual occupancy (613), subdivision (575), alterations & additions (479).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Liverpool City Council?
73 applications — 1.06% 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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