Tweed Shire Council — Development Application Data
A live snapshot of development activity in Tweed Shire Council — sourced from NSW Government open data and the 413,770-DA Plan Advice corpus. Refreshed automatically. Data reflects the most recent NSW Planning Portal open-data feeds, counted application by application.
Determination outcomes
Real approval, refusal and withdrawal rates from finalised DAs in the Plan Advice enriched corpus.
Based on the 99.3% of DAs in our Tweed Shire Council corpus with a confirmed determination. Applications still under assessment, and any whose outcome the council has not published, are excluded rather than estimated.
How long a DA takes in Tweed Shire Council, and who decides it
Counted from every application Tweed Shire Council determined in the last 5 years, as published in the NSW Planning Portal open data. Timelines are lodgement to determination, so they include the time spent waiting on the applicant.
An application determined under delegation is decided by the assessing officer. Anything referred to a panel or the elected body is decided in a public meeting and adds a meeting cycle to the timeline. Where the council recorded only “Council” it did not say which, so that row is left as published.
1.3% of applications in Tweed Shire Council sought a clause 4.6 variation to a development standard, and 76.8% of those variations were granted (43 of 56). 5.7% of DAs lodged were withdrawn before a determination was made. On the CDC side, 21.8% of certificates lodged were rejected rather than accepted, at an average declared cost of $421,786.
Why DAs get refused in Tweed Shire Council
Grounds cited across 59 refused applications, read from the council's own notices of determination. Most recent determination indexed: August 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. 506 grounds across Tweed Shire Council are indexed this way.
See the grounds in fullDevelopment type mix
What people are building in Tweed Shire Council. Ranked by DA volume.
Development cost distribution
Estimated development cost ranges reported on Tweed Shire Council DAs.
Tweed Shire 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 Tweed Shire Council handle?
Plan Advice holds 6,972 development applications for Tweed Shire Council, 983 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 Tweed Shire Council?
The median assessment time is 92 days. 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.
How long does the council take to determine a DA in Tweed Shire Council?
The median is 92 days from lodgement to determination across 4,260 applications determined in the last 5 years, and the slowest fifth take 199 days or more. The NSW median is 60 days. Counted from the NSW Planning Portal open data, so it covers every application — not a sample.
Who decides development applications in Tweed Shire Council?
48.6% of determinations were made by council staff under delegated authority. council (delegation not specified) determined 48.2%. Anything referred to a panel or the elected body is decided in a public meeting, which adds a meeting cycle.
Does Tweed Shire Council approve clause 4.6 variations?
1.3% of applications sought a variation to a development standard, and 76.8% of those were granted (43 of 56 in the last 5 years).
Can I use a CDC instead of a DA in Tweed Shire Council?
26.3% of approvals in this LGA went through as complying development (1,582 certificates in the last 5 years), and 21.8% of CDC applications lodged were rejected rather than accepted. A CDC only applies if the proposal meets every development standard in the Codes SEPP.
What share of DAs does Tweed Shire Council approve?
89.9% of the 3,965 determined applications we hold were approved and 2.5% were refused. We can read a determination for 99.3% of this council's DAs; the rest are counted as unknown rather than assumed approved.
Why are DAs refused in Tweed Shire Council?
Across 59 refused applications, the grounds cited most often are insufficient information submitted by applicant (45 refusals), contrary to the public interest (s4.15(1)(e)) (54 refusals), biodiversity, native vegetation or ecology (22 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 Tweed Shire Council?
The most frequent application types are erection of a new structure (2,058), alterations or additions to an existing building or structure (1,449), dwelling house (1,282).
How often is a clause 4.6 variation used in Tweed Shire Council?
91 applications — 1.31% 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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