NSW Development Applications and Building Leads

New development applications (DAs) and complying development certificates (CDCs) lodged with NSW councils, from the NSW Planning Portal — the first public sign of building work coming, so you can quote early.

What you get

• One row per application, across every NSW council that uses the Planning Portal.
• The council, the application number and (for a DA) the council's own reference.
• The development types, in the portal's own words: dwelling house, demolition, retail premise, office premise, swimming pool, subdivision and so on.
• The estimated cost in Australian dollars, where the applicant gave one.
• The number of new dwellings and storeys, where the portal records them.
• The address and suburb (with home-related addresses partly withheld — see Privacy).
• The status and the lodgement date.

Who uses it

• Builders and trades — quote for jobs in your area before the work is advertised.
• Building suppliers and manufacturers — see what is about to be built, and where.
• Architects, planners and private certifiers — a pipeline of new projects by council and development type.
• Arborists, surveyors and other consultants — find the jobs that need your part of the process.
• Anyone watching their own area — know what is proposed near you.

How to use it

1. Set the inputs: how many days back, DA or CDC, councils, development types, keywords or a minimum cost.
2. Run it once, or save it as a task and schedule a daily or weekly run, so new applications arrive on their own.
3. Take the results from the dataset tab as CSV, Excel or JSON, or read them through the Apify API into Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, Make or your own tools.

Input fields

Field	Default	What it does
daysBack	7	Applications lodged today or in the previous days back - 1 days (1–90).
applicationKinds	DA and CDC	Which kinds to include: DA for development applications, CDC for complying development certificates. Leave empty for both.
councils	none	Council name contains one of these words, case-insensitive, e.g. "Blacktown". Leave empty for every NSW council.
developmentTypes	none	Development type contains one of these words, e.g. "dwelling", "demolition", "retail". Leave empty for every type.
keywords	none	Title, description or address contains one of these words, case-insensitive. Leave empty for every application.
minCostAud	0	Estimated cost at or above this many Australian dollars. Applications with no published cost are left out when this is set. 0 means no minimum.
maxResults	1000	Stop after this many applications (1–10000). Each one is charged as one result.
failIfEmpty	off	For monitoring: mark the run as failed when nothing is found. Leave off for normal use.

Output example

Two rows, for the real fixture records PAN-666354 (a Burwood dwelling house) and PAN-662382 (a Burwood commercial development). A record's own missing fields are simply missing; results download as CSV, Excel or JSON from the dataset tab.

{
  "applicationNumber": "PAN-666354",
  "kind": "DA",
  "lodgementDate": "2026-09-21T00:00:00Z",
  "status": "Under Assessment",
  "council": "Burwood Council",
  "developmentTypes": "Dwelling house; Alterations or additions to an existing building or structure",
  "costAud": 79981,
  "address": "BURWOOD ROAD, BURWOOD 2134",
  "suburb": "BURWOOD",
  "postcode": "2134",
  "homeRelated": true,
  "councilReference": "DA.2026.68",
  "source": "nsw-planning",
  "licence": "Contains NSW Planning Portal data (NSW Government), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution"
}

{
  "applicationNumber": "PAN-662382",
  "kind": "DA",
  "lodgementDate": "2026-09-21T00:00:00Z",
  "status": "Under Assessment",
  "council": "Burwood Council",
  "developmentTypes": "Demolition; Commercial development; Office Premise; Alterations or additions to an existing building or structure; Retail Premise; Take away food and drink",
  "costAud": 492140,
  "address": "12 THE STRAND CROYDON 2132",
  "suburb": "CROYDON",
  "postcode": "2132",
  "homeRelated": false,
  "councilReference": "DA.2026.69",
  "source": "nsw-planning",
  "licence": "Contains NSW Planning Portal data (NSW Government), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution"
}

The first row is home-related: the street number has been removed. The homeRelated column is true whenever that happened.

Pricing

You pay per result: one application is one result, charged when its row is written. Rows you never receive are not charged for, and the run stops by itself if it reaches the maximum cost per run set on the run. The price per result is set by the publisher in the Apify Console.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The run reads the NSW Planning Portal live. A council lists an application once it has entered it, and councils differ in how quickly they do that, so a day that has just passed may still be thin. Schedule a daily run and give it a few days to fill in.

How much does a run cost? You pay only for the rows you receive: one application, one charge. Set a maximum cost per run and the run stops by itself when it is reached; rows that are never returned are never charged for.

Can I track the DAs and CDCs I care about? Yes. Filter by council, development type, keyword and minimum cost, or by application kind (DA, CDC or both) — for example, new dwelling houses in Blacktown over $500,000.

Is this official data? Yes. It comes from the NSW Planning Portal's public Online DA and Online CDC data, published by the NSW Government under Creative Commons Attribution, and every row carries the attribution line.

Why is the street number missing on some rows? An application for a home is a record about a private address, so for home-related records the street number, the exact coordinates and the lot/plan are removed. The homeRelated column is true when that has happened.

Does it name the applicant? No. The applicant's name is not in this data and is never output, and a CDC's certifier details are dropped as well.

Data source and licence

The NSW Planning Portal "Online DA Data" API, NSW Government:

• https://api.apps1.nsw.gov.au/eplanning/data/v0/OnlineDA (development applications)
• https://api.apps1.nsw.gov.au/eplanning/data/v0/OnlineCDC (complying development certificates)

Published under Creative Commons Attribution. Every row carries the attribution line:

Contains NSW Planning Portal data (NSW Government), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution

Privacy

Privacy comes first. Every application is treated as being about somebody's home unless it is plainly business or large-scale: a commercial, industrial, retail, office, warehouse, shop, medical, hotel, club, school, childcare or similar development, or one proposing more than two new dwellings. For home-related records the street number, the exact coordinates and the lot/plan are removed before the row is written, inside the stored record too. The address then shows only the street, suburb and postcode (for example EXAMPLE STREET, SUBURB 2000 instead of 12 EXAMPLE STREET SUBURB 2000). Business and larger developments keep the address the portal published.

The applicant's name is not in this data and is never output, and a CDC's certifier details are dropped as well. Where the portal has not published street fields for a home-related record, no address is output at all rather than reconstructed.

Limitations

• The portal lists an application once the council has entered it, and councils differ in how quickly they do, so a day that has just passed may still be thin.
• The cost is the applicant's own estimate, and some applications publish no cost at all.
• The status is the one in the record when the run fetched it; earlier status changes are not tracked.
• The home-related rule hides an address whenever the work could be at a house, so "Demolition" with nothing else in the record is treated as home-related even if it is not a home.
• A home-related row names the street and the suburb, not the property.
• When the list is longer than maxResults, the run stops at the limit and the rest are neither returned nor charged for.