1 Proposed2,604applications on record, though this council feed does not publish assessment statusLatest June 2026See applications ↓
2 Approved768dwellings approved in 2024-25, or 0.56 per 100 existing dwellings a yearOfficial · ABS to June 2026See approvals ↓
3 Building64major projects committed or under construction, 21 of them already on siteForward · completions to 2030+See projects ↓
4 Delivered1,830new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 2.4% on the existing baseActual · to June 2026Where it landed ↓
In the 2024-25 financial year the ABS recorded 768 dwelling approvals across Boroondara. AreaSearch tracks 64 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Eastern Freeway Upgrades: Hoddle Street to Burke Road at an estimated $1.50bn. On the ground, 1,830 new addresses have been verified since the 2021 Census — growth of 2.4% on the existing address base.
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.
ApprovedBuilding Approvals in Boroondara
What councils and certifiers have formally
permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Approvals are running at 0.56 per 100 existing dwellings a year, below the Victoria rate of 0.80. The mix is genuinely split — 48% of recent approvals are detached houses and 52% are attached or higher-density dwellings. Detached houses make up 56% of the homes already standing here but only 44% of the past five years of approvals, so the area is densifying. The average approved dwelling is valued at $1,111,000 in construction cost.
For its size, Boroondara is adding 0.56 dwellings a year per 100 existing homes — below the Victoria rate of 0.80 and the national rate of 0.71. That is about 5.1 approvals a year for every 1,000 residents. Building intensity has risen by about 28% across the published series.
Measured against people rather than housing stock, Boroondara is approving 6.90 dwellings a year per 1,000 residents — in line with the Victoria rate of 7.97. The two rate views differ by household size, which here averages 2.7 people per home. Housing the projection to 2041 would need about 0.89 per 1,000 residents a year.
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 915.
How intensively is it building?
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Boroondara0.56
Victoria0.80
Australia0.71
What is here, and what is coming
Detached houses as a share of existing homes,
against the share of recent approvals.
Existing homes (2021 Census)56%
Approved, last 5 years44%
Approved, latest year48%
Detached housesApartments, townhouses & other
Approvals mix by year
Share of each year’s approvals.
2022
2023
2024
2025
2024-25
$1.06bn
Residential work approved
2024-25
$180m
Commercial work approved
construction cost
$1,111,000
Average value per approved dwelling
last two years
188
Residents per approval
Supply & DemandIs Boroondara Building Enough Homes?
The same approvals, measured against the population
they have to house.
Boroondara approves about 5.1 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 11,097 residents but only 1,830 new addresses — about 6.1 extra people for every home built, against an average household of 2.7. On those numbers supply has not kept pace with growth. Housing the population projected for 2041 implies roughly 159 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 915 a year comfortably ahead of what the projection needs.
Growth against supply since the Census
People added for every new address verified,
against the size of an average local household.
People added per new home6.1
Average household size2.7
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.
Approval rate against projected need
Dwellings a year: what is currently being
approved, against what the 2041 population projection implies.
Approved (5-yr average)915
Implied need to 2041159
Implied need assumes the average household stays
at today’s 2.7 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. 12
of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the
Analysed marker in the search below.
AreaSearch tracks 2,604 development applications of material scale lodged with council across Boroondara, the most recent in June 2026. The biggest categories in the queue by value are commercial, retail and multi-residential.
Estimated value of applications by development type. This is the clearest
single picture of what kind of place Boroondara is being asked to become. A further 25 applications sit across
1 smaller category,
too few to plot.
Where the applications stand
As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are
applications still in assessment.
Advertising20
Appeal Complete1
Planning Permit to Issue1
A further 2,582 applications carry no status in the council feed.
By local government area
Applications on record within each council area that
overlaps Boroondara. This counts applications inside this
statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
Boroondara2,604
No current list of the largest applications can be shown for Boroondara.
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
2,604 applications AreaSearch holds for this area, lodged
between Nov 2007 and Dec 2014, are counted in the figures above.
BuildingFORWARDMajor Projects & Infrastructure in Boroondara
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough
to change how Boroondara works, ranked by committed value and how close
they are to delivery.
AreaSearch tracks 64 current projects across Boroondara. The largest is Eastern Freeway Upgrades: Hoddle Street to Burke Road at an estimated $1.50bn, due by 2028. That breaks down as 21 under construction, 15 approved and awaiting a start and 28 still in planning. The pipeline is weighted toward residential development, communities, precincts & urban renewal and sports & recreation.
Under construction$1.50bnby 2028
Eastern Freeway Upgrades: Hoddle Street to Burke Road
As part of the North East Link Program, this project involves a major overhaul of 6km of the Eastern Freeway. Key features include adding one new lane in each direction between Chandler Highway and Burke Road…
Scotch Hill Gardens is a major Hamton residential redevelopment of the former University of Melbourne Hawthorn campus in the Scotch Hill precinct. The project comprises six boutique residential buildings with…
Landmark 12-storey mixed-use development designed by Cera Stribley for Above Zero. Features 36 penthouse-style apartments, 6 levels of commercial office, and ground floor retail. Set to be City of Boroondara's…
Hawthorn Station Activity Centre DevelopmentApproved · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2030 · Hawthorn - South
$300m
Glenferrie Place Plan ImplementationUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2026 · Hawthorn - North
$50m
Camberwell Junction Activity Centre PlanApproved · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2051 · Camberwell
$1.20bn
White & Weston Balwyn VillageUnder construction · Residential Development · by 2027 · Balwyn
$112m
Harp Village Precinct RedevelopmentIn planning · Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2031 · Kew East
$450m
Ashburton PlaceIn planning · Residential Development · by 2030 · Ashburton (Vic.)
$380m
1207-1209 Burke Road TownhomesApproved · Residential Development · by 2027 · Kew - South
$45m
Ashburton Station Activity Centre PlanIn planning · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2040 · Ashburton (Vic.)
$450m
49 further projects in
Boroondara are not listed here.
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Beyond 2030:
a further $2.81bn across
6 projects 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.
Approvals PipelineDevelopment Applications in Boroondara
Development applications around
Boroondara
Development approvals is a new addition to AreaSearch.
We’re actively expanding council coverage and refining the dataset — details and statuses for some councils may be partial. Check back regularly for the latest pipeline.
Application search is not available in Victoria.
AreaSearch holds 2,604 applications for Boroondara, but they are a record of past activity rather than a current register. Victoria has no state-wide planning portal and its council coverage is uneven, so we
have switched the search off here rather than return partial answers. We are
currently investigating a solution. No credits are charged for Victorian
applications, and building approvals from the ABS and the major projects we track
are unaffected.
SOURCE: Planning portals and council registers, compiled by AreaSearch. Distance & bearing measured from the suburb midpoint.
ProfessionalPRODevelopment Map for Boroondara
Applications and major projects plotted where
they are actually proposed, with the
108 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.
DistributionWhere Development Is Happening in Boroondara
Boroondara covers 12 statistical areas. Follow any of them through for a full profile of population, housing, sales and amenity at local scale.
Map builder
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
Boroondara.
Development in Boroondara is assessed within the Boroondara local government area. AreaSearch publishes development
figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries. That is deliberate: the ABS
issues a separate official building-approvals series for local government areas, and totals
built up from statistical areas would not match it. Reporting at SA3 keeps every figure on this page
reconcilable with the published ABS series.
CompareNearby Development Hubs
The same view of building approvals, applications and
major projects for areas neighbouring Boroondara.
Collected from council planning portals. The
earliest signal available, but the least certain: many applications are amended,
withdrawn or refused, values are the applicant’s own estimate, and coverage
varies by council. This is a curated set, not the full council feed:
AreaSearch carries applications of material scale and does not track routine minor
works such as signage, fencing or small alterations, so the counts here are lower
than a council’s own total lodgement figure and should not be compared with it. Applications still shown as under assessment more than
18 months after lodgement are reported separately
and kept out of the live-queue figures: the age profile of open applications is
sharply split between a genuine queue under a year old and a long tail of records
councils never closed. Not every state publishes a cost of works — Queensland,
the Northern Territory and the ACT publish none at all — so on those pages
applications are counted rather than valued and no dollar figure is shown
rather than a partial one. Treated here as a snapshot of the current queue only —
AreaSearch does not chart application counts over time, because the history
reflects when each portal was collected rather than when development happened.
Approved — ABS building approvals
The official series, aggregated to SA3 from
ABS building approvals data, currently published to June 2026.
Counts dwelling units approved, not buildings and not completions. The most recent
financial year is annualised from nine months of data wherever it appears and is
labelled as such.
Building — major projects
Projects tracked individually by AreaSearch
from Infrastructure Australia, state infrastructure agencies, developer disclosures
and council records. Values are estimates and delivery dates are targets. Ranked on
this page by committed value and delivery stage rather than by distance.
Delivered — verified new addresses
New residential addresses verified in the national
address register since the 2021 Census. This is the closest available measure of what has
actually been built, though address creation can lead occupation and lags
construction. It is not a completions count.
Boundaries
Boroondara is Statistical Area Level 3 20701 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 12 Statistical Areas Level 2.
It has an estimated 178,997 residents, +6.6% since the 2021 Census.
Currency
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
June 2026
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.
Development in Boroondara — common questions
How many new dwellings were approved in Boroondara?
The ABS recorded 768 dwelling approvals across Boroondara in the 2024-25 financial year, against a five-year average of 915 a year.
How many development applications are lodged in Boroondara?
AreaSearch tracks 2,604 development applications of material scale across Boroondara — 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 Boroondara local government area. The most recent application in our data was lodged in June 2026.
What major projects are planned for Boroondara?
AreaSearch tracks 64 current major projects in Boroondara, 21 of them under construction. The largest include Eastern Freeway Upgrades: Hoddle Street to Burke Road, Scotch Hill Gardens and Camberwell House.
Which council covers Boroondara?
Boroondara is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by the Boroondara local government area. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
Is Boroondara growing faster than the rest of Victoria?
On development approvals, Boroondara is adding new dwellings more slowly than Victoria as a whole — 0.56 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.80.
How current is this development data?
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 June 2026. 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.
Denotes AI-based impression for illustrative purposes only, not to be taken as
definitive under any circumstances. Please follow links and conduct other
investigations from the project’s source for actual imagery. Developers and
project owners wishing us to use original imagery please Contact
Us and we will do so.