Average number of days to determine a development application (DA)

Created 05/08/2025

Updated 05/08/2025

The average assessment days are calculated as a 6-month rolling average for the reporting period. A 6-month rolling average normalises impacts on the assessment days from outliers and has been used to report the departments KPIs externally on State Significant and Regionally Significant DAs. State Significant Projects: Includes State Significant Development (SSD) and State Significant Infrastructure (SSI) applications. All modifications and applications with Independent Planning Commission public hearings are excluded.  Assessment days include only government days for certain stages, as set out in internal State Significant Precincts guideline. This includes a mix of calendar days and working days, depending on the stage. Proponent days are excluded. Data Extracted on 04 March 2025 Regionally Significant Development Applications: Average days are calculated as gross days between ""Lodgement Date"" and ""Determination Date"". Includes all determined projects. Data Extracted on 02 March 2025 Local Development Applications: Average days are calculated as gross days between ""Lodgement Date"" and ""Determination Date"". Includes all determined applications, excluding modifications and review of determinations. Data extracted on 04 March 2025. The determined applications are those with a decision outcome of either approved or refused.

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Title Average number of days to determine a development application (DA)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/505fbf06-2901-4d52-af09-a7d9f2db0f0a
Remote Last Updated 17/07/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 30/09/2013 - 31/03/2025
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Average number of days to determine a development application (DA)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-average-number-of-days-to-determine-a-development-application-da