Building approvals, live development applications and major projects across the Banyule statistical area — covering Banyule, Nillumbik and Darebin.
These four figures are deliberately not added together. An application, an approval and a project under construction are often the same building at three points in its life, measured by three different bodies with three different lags. Read them as a sequence, not a total.
What councils and certifiers have formally permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing homes, with Victoria and Australia for comparison. This is the same activity as the totals view, divided by the size of the area — which is the only fair way to compare a large SA3 with a small one.
Dwelling approvals a year per 1,000 residents, each year divided by that year’s estimated resident population (ABS ERP at 30 June), not by today’s — which matters most in fast-growing areas, where a fixed denominator can understate the early years by half. The most recent periods use the latest published ERP, as the population series runs a year behind approvals. Read it alongside the per-100-homes view: the two differ wherever household size does.
Dwelling units approved each financial year. The dashed line is the five-year average of 931.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Detached houses as a share of existing homes, against the share of recent approvals.
Share of each year’s approvals.
The same approvals, measured against the population they have to house.
People added for every new address verified, against the size of an average local household.
A bar longer than the household average means the area gained more residents than its new housing could hold, and the extra had to be absorbed by existing homes.
Dwellings a year: what is currently being approved, against what the 2041 population projection implies.
Implied need assumes the average household stays at today’s 2.6 people. Approvals are not completions, and not every approval is built.
What is being asked for right now — applications collected from council planning portals, before any of it reaches the ABS series above. AreaSearch tracks applications of material scale; routine minor works such as signage and fencing changes are not carried, so these are not counts of every application lodged. 6 of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the Analysed marker in the search below.
AreaSearch reads applications directly from each council’s planning register. This whole area sits within one council, and only 1 application has come through in the last 18 months. The counts below are drawn almost entirely from older records.
Estimated value of applications by development type. This is the clearest single picture of what kind of place Banyule is being asked to become. A further 2 applications sit across 1 smaller category, too few to plot.
As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are applications still in assessment.
A further 971 applications carry no status in the council feed.
Applications on record within each council area that overlaps Banyule. This counts applications inside this statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
No current list of the largest applications can be shown for Banyule. Nothing on record here is both still open and lodged within the last 18 months. Victoria has no state-wide planning portal and its council coverage is uneven, so what AreaSearch can collect here is a record of past activity rather than a live queue. We are currently investigating a solution. The 979 applications AreaSearch holds for this area, lodged between Jul 2008 and Aug 2021, are counted in the figures above.
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough to change how Banyule works, ranked by committed value and how close they are to delivery.
Major Victorian road program completing the missing link in Melbourne's orbital freeway network. It includes twin 6.5 km road tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen, upgrades to the Eastern Freeway and M80 Ring…
Final stage of the M80 Ring Road upgrade, completing the link between Plenty Road, Greensborough and the North East Link tunnels in Watsonia. The project delivers 14 km of new lanes, express lanes connecting…
A master-planned residential community featuring approximately 240 homes in St Helena, combining quiet family living with connectivity to urban amenities, including quality schools, shopping centres, wildlife…
14 further projects in Banyule are not listed here.
Combined values on this page exclude 1 whole-of-state program that reaches this area but are not local to it. Both are still listed above with their own values.
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Beyond 2030: a further $300m across 1 project with completion dates further out — mostly precinct-scale programs whose dates are indicative. Kept out of the chart so the years you can act on stay readable.
Estimated value of tracked projects by the year they are due to complete, stacked by how certain they are. The dark band is money already being spent; the pale band is still an intention. Estimates are indicative and mix infrastructure cost with whole-of-precinct development value, so read the shape rather than the totals.
Development applications around Banyule
SOURCE: Planning portals and council registers, compiled by AreaSearch. Distance & bearing measured from the suburb midpoint.
Applications and major projects plotted where they are actually proposed, with the 51 projects AreaSearch tracks here on their own tab — filterable by type, delivery stage, area and committed value. To search every application on record rather than this sample, use the section above.
Each area below opens a map builder on its own page — a tool for putting a map and a table into a report. Pick the place types you want plotted (schools, supermarkets, medical, child care, transport and the rest of what AreaSearch holds), add development applications as their own layer, drop your own points, then recolour, renumber and export the result as a table or CSV. A this area only toggle clips everything to the boundary you are looking at. Searches are charged against your credit balance — 1 credit per 40 results from AreaSearch data — and setting filters costs nothing until you search. The builder works on one suburb-sized area at a time, which is why it opens per area rather than across the whole of Banyule.
| Local government area | Share of Banyule | Applications on record | Register read to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banyule | 100% of residents | 976 | August 2021, few recent records |
| Nillumbik | 0.0% of residents | 3 | September 2012 |
| Darebin | 0.0% of residents | — | Not yet collected |
The same view of building approvals, applications and major projects for areas neighbouring Banyule.
Banyule is Statistical Area Level 3 20901 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 9 Statistical Areas Level 2. It has an estimated 133,178 residents, +5.5% since the 2021 Census.
| Measure | Source | To |
|---|---|---|
| Dwelling approvals, five-year average | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| House share of approvals | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Residents per approval | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Value per approved dwelling | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Commercial work approved | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Verified new addresses since the Census | Address register / AreaSearch | May 2026 |
| Development applications | Council planning portals | August 2021 |
| Major projects | Infrastructure Australia / state agencies / AreaSearch | Ongoing |
Figures on this page are read live from the AreaSearch database each time it loads, so they update as soon as a source does.
The ABS recorded 1,002 dwelling approvals across Banyule in the 2024-25 financial year, against a five-year average of 931 a year.
AreaSearch tracks 979 development applications of material scale across Banyule — routine minor works such as signage and fencing are not included, so this is not a count of every application lodged. Applications are assessed within the Banyule, Nillumbik and Darebin local government areas. The most recent application in our data was lodged in August 2021.
AreaSearch tracks 29 current major projects in Banyule, 18 of them under construction. The largest include North East Link, M80 Ring Road Completion and St Helena Place.
Banyule is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by parts of 3 local government areas — Banyule, Nillumbik and Darebin. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
On development approvals, Banyule is adding new dwellings more slowly than Victoria as a whole — 0.63 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.80.
ABS building approvals are published with a lag of roughly four months; this page carries the series to June 2026. Development applications are collected from council planning portals and refresh continuously, with the most recent application here lodged in August 2021. Major project records are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Each section carries its own currency label so the four are never confused.
Development data is provided for general information. Estimated values, dwelling counts and delivery dates come from the lodging or delivering party and are not independently verified by AreaSearch. Confirm anything material with the relevant council or agency before relying on it.