Peninsula has half development assessment backlog
The Peninsula has about half the backlog in development assessments per capita compared to the rest of the Central Coast.
This is based on a staff report to be presented to the council's planning and environment committee tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 6.
The report states that the council had 776 development applications "under assessment" at the end of March.
As the Peninsula has 11 per cent of the population of the region, it could be expected to have 85 applications under assessment pro rata.
However, according to figures compiled by Peninsula News, the number under assessment for the Peninsula is just 48, or 6.2 per cent of the total.
Of these, 18 are applications for multi-dwellings or dual occupancies.
The council staff report states that 139 development applications have been "in the system" for longer than 12 months at end of March.
It is not clear what is meant by "in the system".
Of those under assessment for the Peninsula, 12 applications (8.6 per cent) were lodged more than 12 months ago.
The oldest was lodged in May 2023.
Nine applications under assessment were lodged in 2023, 21 in 2024 and 18 this year.
A total of 103 development applications are currently in process for the Peninsula.
Four are in "pre-lodgement review", four are "submitted" and 19 are currently are on "notification-advertising".
A further 28 are awaiting payment or information from the applicant.
Five of these were lodged more than 12 months ago.
However, it is unclear whether this delay can be attributed to council processing or to delays on the part of the applicant.
Other figures compiled by Peninsula News show 26 development applications for the Peninsula were lodged in March and 24 applications in April.
In March, 19 "complying development certificates" were separately issued allowing building work on the Peninsula.
In April, 14 certificates were issued.
In March, it appears that 18 development applications were approved.
More detail of the Peninsula's development applications can be found on the Peninsula News planning portal at http://peninsula.news/portal.aspx.
SOURCE:
Agenda item 1.4, 6 May 2025
Environment-Planning Committee, Central Coast Council