How long does rezoning take in Goulburn Mulwaree Council?
Every figure below is computed from the official register records for this council. Counts and gazettal years come from full register history; pipeline duration only from what we have directly observed.
- Amendments tracked
- 12
- full register history
- Active last 12 months
- 4
- by latest status date
- Approval rate
- 88%
- of 8 recorded outcomes
- Observed pipeline duration
- —
- insufficient data yet (0 of 5 cases observed)
Development applications · last 12 months
Applications lodged in this council in the trailing 12 months, by current status. Counted directly from the development application register.
- Total lodged
- 328
- last 12 months
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 67
- Determined
- 245
- Withdrawn
- 16
See all development applications in Goulburn Mulwaree Council
Decision speed
How quickly this council determines a development application, measured from lodgement to determination across every decided application that carries both dates.
- Median time to decision
- 63 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 82 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 618
- determined applications
Recent amendments
Planning disputes
18 on recordPlanning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Goulburn Mulwaree Council, newest first. Each links to the full public judgment.
| Matter | Court | Decided |
|---|---|---|
| Filetron Pty Ltd v Innovate Partners Pty Ltd atf Banton Family Trust 2 and Goulburn Mulwaree Council (No 2) [2024] NSWCA 72 COSTS – Party/Party – as to the costs of the proceedings at first instance, whether should be deduction to reflect costs incurred prior to amendment of summons in relation to claims or contentions then abandoned – Whether parties should bear their own costs in respect of a notice of motion filed by the second respondent under s 25C of the Land and Environment Court Act in the proceedings | NSWCA | 4 Apr 2024 |
| Filetron Pty Ltd v Innovate Partners Pty Ltd atf Banton Family Trust 2 and Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2024] NSWCA 41 ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING – Development applications – Delegation of assessment function of local council – Whether delegate had authority to determine application – Interpretation of relevant instruments of delegation and sub-delegation and policy – Whether primary judge erred by interpreting “submission by way of objection” by reference to the statutorily directed time period under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) – Whether objection was “a reasonable and unresolved obje | NSWCA | 29 Feb 2024 |
| Filetron Pty Ltd v Innovate Partners Pty Ltd atf Banton Family Trust 2 and Goulburn Mulwaree Council (No 3) [2023] NSWLEC 104 COSTS — Exercise of discretion to award costs in Class 4 judicial review proceedings — Whether the making of an order under s 25B for conditional validity of a development consent is the event costs should follow — Whether costs should be apportioned in circumstances — Whether a consent authority should be exempted from costs by reason of its submitting appearance COSTS — Interlocutory process — Exercise of discretion to award costs in relation to an application under s 25C of the Land and Envir | NSWLEC | 16 Oct 2023 |
| Filetron Pty Ltd v Innovate Partners Pty Ltd atf Banton Family Trust 2 and Goulburn Mulwaree Council (No 2) [2023] NSWLEC 93 Judicial Review — Orders previously made in Class 4 proceedings for conditional validity of development consent — Declaration as to validity now sought under s 25C of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (NSW) — Statutory construction of the scheme for validating consent — Court orders substantially complied with — Declarations made — Costs reserved | NSWLEC | 11 Sept 2023 |
| Filetron Pty Ltd v Innovate Partners Pty Ltd atf Banton Family Trust 2 and Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2023] NSWLEC 45 LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Legal proceedings — Judicial review — Judicial review of council decision — Class 4 — Whether Council’s delegate had authority to determine the development application — Construction of the applicable instruments of delegation and sub-delegation and Council’s policy — Whether there had been a failure to consider mandatory matters and/or a constructive failure to determine the development application — Construction of development consent — Whether certain documents had been inc | NSWLEC | 27 Apr 2023 |
| Northern Park Pty Ltd v Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2023] NSWSC 335 CIVIL PROCEDURE — Commencement of proceedings — Statement of claim — notice of motion seeking leave to file further amended statement of claim — where proceedings have been on foot since 2019 — where plaintiffs comprise a group which operates waste management facilities — where dispute regards use of property in Goulburn as waste disposal depot — whether to join proposed fourth plaintiff to proceedings — Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 56 — leave denied CIVIL PROCEDURE — Pleadings — Amendment | NSWSC | 4 Apr 2023 |
| Filetron Pty Ltd v Innovate Partners Pty Ltd ACN 131 941 145 atf Banton Family Trust 2 [2022] NSWLEC 98 PROCEDURE – application for direction to allow reliance on expert evidence in judicial review proceedings refused | NSWLEC | 5 Aug 2022 |
| Eddy v Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2022] NSWCA 87 NEGLIGENCE — Defences — Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 45 — Whether defendant had actual knowledge of the particular risk the materialisation of which resulted in the harm — Extent of specificity required by phrase “particular risk” | NSWCA | 7 June 2022 |
| Twynam Investments Pty Ltd v Goulburn Mulwaree Council (No 2) [2021] NSWLEC 50 COSTS - successful Applicant in Class 1 proceedings awarded costs on an ordinary basis as being “fair and reasonable” in light of the outcome of those proceedings - successful Applicant seeks costs order be made on the indemnity basis - consideration of settlement offers made - first offer lacked precision - second offer made on an “open offer” basis (and rejected) provides a proper foundation to award costs on the indemnity basis after the expiry of the offer - Respondent ordered to pay the App | NSWLEC | 24 May 2021 |
| Twynam Investments Pty Ltd v Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2021] NSWLEC 7 COSTS - appeal pursuant to s 30 of the Heritage Act 1977 against the making of an interim heritage order by the Respondent - consideration of the question of whether the Ministerial Order investing the Respondent with power to make interim heritage orders - Ministerial Order mandated jurisdictional prerequisites to be satisfied prior to the power to make any interim heritage order being available to the Respondent - jurisdictional prerequisite in Sch 2(2)(d) of the Ministerial Order not satisfie | NSWLEC | 4 Feb 2021 |
| Cheetham v Goulburn Motorcycle Club Inc [2017] NSWCA 83 JUDICIAL REVIEW – planning consent – whether proposed development prohibited under local environmental plan – whether characterisation of proposal a jurisdictional fact to be determined by the court PLANNING LAW – development consent granted for a “motorcycle facility” – whether the development consent was for a prohibited use under Goulburn Mulwaree Local Environmental Plan 2009 – whether consent was for a “recreation facility (major)” – extent to which reference can be made to documents referr | NSWCA | 27 Apr 2017 |
| Cheetham and Anor v Goulburn Motorcycle Club Incorporated and Ors [2016] NSWLEC 80 JUDICIAL REVIEW – challenge to development consent for motorcycle racing facility – characterisation of proposed facility – council characterised the proposal as recreation facility (outdoor) – contention that the proposal should be characterised as recreation facility (major) – development for a recreation facility (major) prohibited in the zone where site located – interpretation of definition of recreation facility (major) – proposal correctly characterised by the council – development permis | NSWLEC | 6 July 2016 |
| Figtree Reserve Pty Limited v Goulburn Mulwaree Shire Council [2013] NSWLEC 65 PROCEDURE - compliance with statutory time limit for commencement of Class 1 merit appeal proceedings | NSWLEC | 15 May 2013 |
| Olsson v Goulburn Mulwaree Council & the Minister Administering The Crown Land Act 1989, Olsson v The Minister Administering The Crown Land Act 1989 [2010] NSWLEC 169 CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION :- development appeal - separate question –cl 20 of Mulwaree Local Environmental Plan 1995 – restriction of “additional dwelling-house” on rural land to a “rural worker’s dwelling-house” – elements of definition of “rural worker’s dwelling” - need for principal dwelling-house to be standing on land | NSWLEC | 17 Sept 2010 |
| Olsson v Goulburn Mulwaree Council & The Minister Administering The Crown Land Act 1989, Olsson v The Minister Administering The Crown Land Act 1989 [2010] NSWLEC 47 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE :- preliminary questions – whether to separately determine questions pursuant to Part 28 rule 2 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 – dangers that stem from the separate determination of questions – questions concerning land owner’s consent to development application inappropriate for separate determination - potential duplication in evidence - question concerning permissibility of development appropriate for separate determination | NSWLEC | 9 Mar 2010 |
| Irving v Goulburn Mulwaree Council [2008] NSWLEC 142 Appeal :- under s 56A of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 - development application - subdivision and construction of a retail and commercial building - alleged misdirection in relation to development control plan and s 79C of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 - determinative weight - no error of law | NSWLEC | 17 Apr 2008 |
| CEAL Limited v Minister for Planning & Ors [2007] NSWLEC 302 Appeal :- designated development - State significant development - quarry - road upgrading - insufficient information to assess impacts of road upgrading - impacts on zoned village - amenity - appeal dismissed | NSWLEC | 19 June 2007 |
| Australian Protein Recyclers Pty Limited v Goulburn Mulwaree Shire Council [2006] NSWLEC 641 Practice and Procedure :- planning appeal - applicant provided inadequate information with development application to permit court appointed experts (CAEs) to assess development application - CAEs in preliminary reports requested applicant to provide information - applicant delays and does not provide sufficient information in response to requests - Court directs provision of information to CAEs - failure to compy with court directions - CAEs provide final reports noting information still inadeq | NSWLEC | 27 Sept 2006 |
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How these numbers are computed
- Volume and gazettals per year count register records directly, full history from the source register.
- Approval rate is recorded outcomes beginning “Approved” over all recorded outcomes. Cases still in flight have no outcome and are excluded.
- Observed pipeline duration is the median days between our first and last stage observation for cases we watched move into approved/gazetted: an observed duration accruing since 12 June 2026, not lodgement-to-gazettal elapsed time, which the registers' list data cannot support. Medians are suppressed below 5 observed cases rather than reported on thin samples.
- Development applications are counted directly from the development application register over the trailing 12 months, grouped by their current canonical status. The full list is on the applications page.