Development in Burnside — Approvals, DAs & Projects

The Pipeline Development Pipeline in Burnside

1 Proposed 147 applications in assessment Leading · to July 2026 See applications ↓

2 Approved 243 dwellings approved in 2024-25, or 0.68 per 100 existing dwellings a year Official · ABS to June 2026 See approvals ↓

3 Building 2 major projects committed or under construction, 2 of them already on site Forward · completions to 2029+ See projects ↓

4 Delivered 456 new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 2.5% on the existing base Actual · to June 2026 Where it landed ↓

In the 2024-25 financial year the ABS recorded 243 dwelling approvals across Burnside. Right now, 147 development applications are lodged in the Burnside local government area. AreaSearch tracks 2 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Glenside by Cedar Woods at an estimated $400m. On the ground, 456 new addresses have been verified since the 2021 Census — growth of 2.5% 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.

ApprovedOFFICIAL · to June 2026 Building Approvals in Burnside

What councils and certifiers have formally permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.

Approvals are running at 0.68 per 100 existing dwellings a year, in line with the South Australia rate of 0.78. Recent approvals are dominated by attached housing — apartments, townhouses and other non-detached dwellings make up 67% of them. Detached houses make up 67% of the homes already standing here but only 40% of the past five years of approvals, so the area is densifying. The average approved dwelling is valued at $660,000 in construction cost.

Dwelling units approved each financial year. The dashed line is the five-year average of 287.

How intensively is it building?

Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.

Burnside 0.68

South Australia 0.78

Australia 0.71

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) 67%

Approved, last 5 years 40%

Approved, latest year 33%

Detached houses Apartments, townhouses & other

Approvals mix by year

Share of each year’s approvals.

2022

2023

2024

2025

2024-25

$205m

Residential work approved

2024-25

$130m

Commercial work approved

construction cost

$660,000

Average value per approved dwelling

last two years

157

Residents per approval

Supply & Demand Is Burnside Building Enough Homes?

The same approvals, measured against the population they have to house.

Burnside approves about 5.9 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 2,299 residents but only 456 new addresses — about 5.0 extra people for every home built, against an average household of 2.6. On those numbers supply has not kept pace with growth. Housing the population projected for 2041 implies roughly 88 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 287 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 home 5.0

Average household size 2.6

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) 287

Implied need to 2041 88

Implied need assumes the average household stays at today’s 2.6 people. Approvals are not completions, and not every approval is built.

ProposedLEADING · to July 2026 Development Applications in Burnside

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. 17 of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the Analysed marker in the search below.

AreaSearch tracks 405 development applications of material scale lodged with council across Burnside, the most recent in July 2026. 147 of them are still in assessment. The most common types in the queue are multi-residential, retail and commercial.

Number of applications by development type. This is the clearest single picture of what kind of place Burnside is being asked to become. Councils in South Australia do not publish an estimated cost of works in their planning feeds, so applications here are counted rather than valued. A further 2 applications sit across 2 smaller categories, too few to plot.

Where the applications stand

As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are applications still in assessment.

Decision Made 212

Under Assessment 187

Withdrawn 3

Varied 1

Waiting for Building Rules 1

Waiting for Commencement of Building Work 1

40 applications are still marked under assessment but were lodged more than 18 months ago. Councils often leave determined or abandoned applications open in their feeds, so they are counted here but excluded from the live queue above.

By local government area

Applications on record within each council area that overlaps Burnside. This counts applications inside this statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.

Burnside 405

Recent applications in Burnside

By the number of dwellings proposed, as lodged. Figures are the applicant’s own and are not verified by AreaSearch.

Construction of three double-storey detached dwellings with associated retaining walls and fencing Toorak Gardens · Under Assessment · lodged Jun 2026

3 dwellings

Construction of a two-storey detached dwelling with a swimming pool Burnside - Wattle Park · Under Assessment · lodged Jun 2026

1 dwellings

Two-storey detached dwelling with pool, garage, decking and associated site works Beaumont - Glen Osmond · Under Assessment · lodged Jun 2026

1 dwellings

Two-storey detached dwelling with retaining walls and fencing Beaumont - Glen Osmond · Under Assessment · lodged Jun 2026

1 dwellings

Two (2) double storey dwellings including retaining walls and fencing Toorak Gardens · Under Assessment · lodged Jul 2026

Tree-damaging activity comprising the removal of three (3) regulated trees and six (6) significant trees, construction of twenty-four (24) dwellings… Burnside - Wattle Park · Under Assessment · lodged Jul 2026

Alterations and additions to existing dwelling, carport, verandah, swimming pool with safety barriers and associated demolition works Toorak Gardens · Under Assessment · lodged Jul 2026

Dwelling alterations, new carport and a shed, free standing outdoor fire and chimney, alterations to pool safety features Burnside - Wattle Park · Under Assessment · lodged Jul 2026

BuildingFORWARD Major Projects & Infrastructure in Burnside

What is funded and moving — the projects large enough to change how Burnside works, ranked by committed value and how close they are to delivery.

AreaSearch tracks 2 current projects across Burnside. The largest is Glenside by Cedar Woods at an estimated $400m, due by 2029. That breaks down as 2 under construction. The pipeline is weighted toward residential development.

Under construction $400m by 2029

Glenside by Cedar Woods

Masterplanned redevelopment of the former Glenside Hospital site into a residential community of about 1,200 homes, including apartments and townhomes, with retained heritage buildings, landscaped streets…

Toorak Gardens

Under construction $85m by 2027

Elegan Apartments at Glenside

Elegan Apartments is the fifth apartment building within Cedar Woods' Glenside masterplanned community on the former Glenside Hospital site. The 8-level residential building includes 116 apartments, car…

Toorak Gardens

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.

ProfessionalPRO Development Map for Burnside

Applications and major projects plotted where they are actually proposed, with the 3 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.

Distribution Where Development Is Happening in Burnside

Burnside covers 3 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 Burnside.

Burnside - Wattle Park area profile

No separate approvals series published

130 applications on record · 47 new addresses since 2021

Build a map

Toorak Gardens area profile

No separate approvals series published

203 applications on record · 369 new addresses since 2021

Build a map

Beaumont - Glen Osmond area profile

No separate approvals series published

72 applications on record · 40 new addresses since 2021

Build a map

Planning Authorities Councils Covering Burnside

Development in Burnside is assessed within the Burnside 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.

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The same view of building approvals, applications and major projects for areas neighbouring Burnside.

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Data & Method Sources & Method for Burnside

The four tenses, and what each one can tell you

Proposed — development applications: 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

Burnside is Statistical Area Level 3 40103 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 3 Statistical Areas Level 2. It has an estimated 48,329 residents, +5.0% 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	July 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 Burnside — common questions

How many new dwellings were approved in Burnside?

The ABS recorded 243 dwelling approvals across Burnside in the 2024-25 financial year, against a five-year average of 287 a year.

How many development applications are lodged in Burnside?

AreaSearch tracks 405 development applications of material scale across Burnside — routine minor works such as signage and fencing are not included, so this is not a count of every application lodged, of which 147 remain in assessment. Applications are assessed within the Burnside local government area. The most recent application in our data was lodged in July 2026.

What major projects are planned for Burnside?

AreaSearch tracks 2 current major projects in Burnside, 2 of them under construction. The largest include Glenside by Cedar Woods and Elegan Apartments at Glenside.

Which council covers Burnside?

Burnside is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by the Burnside local government area. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.

Is Burnside growing faster than the rest of South Australia?

On development approvals, Burnside is adding new dwellings at about the same rate as South Australia as a whole — 0.68 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.78.

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 July 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.