City of Parramatta — Development Application Data
With 3178 development applications lodged in the past 12 months, City of Parramatta handles one of the highest development volumes in metropolitan Sydney, reflecting the area's rapid urban transformation. Property owners here face a median 84-day assessment period, while 6.67% of applications rely on clause 4.6 variations to navigate planning controls. The council's 7119 applications since 2021 span diverse project types, from 3981 classified as other development to 1078 dual occupancies and 291 residential flat buildings. Cost distribution shows genuine range: 2683 applications under $100k sit alongside 443 projects exceeding $5M, indicating both incremental renovations and major urban renewal. Development in Parramatta's competitive market requires understanding council-specific assessment patterns and which planning standards frequently require variation requests. A Plan Advice AI-powered assessment for your City of Parramatta property delivers this strategic insight 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 City of Parramatta 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 City of Parramatta
Grounds cited across 2 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. 48 grounds across City of Parramatta are indexed this way.
See the grounds in fullDevelopment type mix
What people are building in City of Parramatta. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on City of Parramatta DAs.
City of Parramatta 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 City of Parramatta handle?
Plan Advice holds 7,276 development applications for City of Parramatta, 3,206 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 City of Parramatta?
The median assessment time is 84 days for FY25-26, after a median 33 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 City of Parramatta approve?
97.4% of the 4,108 determined applications we hold were approved and 1.3% 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 City of Parramatta?
The most frequent application types are dual occupancy (1,096), alterations & additions (914), residential flat building (303).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in City of Parramatta?
483 applications — 6.64% 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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