Strathfield Council — Development Application Data
Development activity in Strathfield Council runs heavily towards smaller alterations and renovations, with 1180 of 1546 applications since 2021 classified as Other development types, while 631 applications sat under $100k in value. The council processed 636 DAs in the last year with a median assessment time of 85 days, placing it in the mid-range compared to neighbouring Inner West councils. Only 7.44% of applications relied on Clause 4.6 variations to exceed development standards, suggesting most proposals conform to strict planning controls in this heritage-conscious municipality. The cost distribution reveals a mixed picture: while the majority are modest projects, 480 applications fell in the $1M to $5M band and 86 exceeded $5M, reflecting pockets of significant residential investment. Dual occupancies and residential flat buildings represent growing typologies with 58 and 46 applications respectively. A Plan Advice AI assessment for your Strathfield property takes seconds and delivers site-specific planning intelligence before you engage consultants.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 99% of DAs in our Strathfield Council corpus with a confirmed determination. Applications still under assessment, and any whose outcome the council has not published, are excluded rather than estimated.
Development type mix
What people are building in Strathfield Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Strathfield Council DAs.
Strathfield 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 Strathfield Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 1,583 development applications for Strathfield Council, 649 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 Strathfield Council?
The median assessment time is 85 days for FY25-26, after a median 15 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 Strathfield Council approve?
85.8% of the 1,193 determined applications we hold were approved and 9.2% were refused. We can read a determination for 99% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
What kinds of development are most common in Strathfield Council?
The most frequent application types are alterations & additions (154), dual occupancy (59), residential flat building (47).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Strathfield Council?
116 applications — 7.33% 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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