Building approvals, live development applications and major projects across the Canberra East statistical area.
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 Australian Capital Territory 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 1.
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.
Not enough recent growth or address data to compare for this area.
Dwellings a year: what is currently being approved, against what the 2041 population projection implies.
dwellings approved a year per 1,000 residents. No population projection is published for this area.
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. 27 of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the Analysed marker in the search below.
Number of applications by development type. This is the clearest single picture of what kind of place Canberra East is being asked to become. Councils in Australian Capital Territory 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.
As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are applications still in assessment.
3 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.
Applications on record within each council area that overlaps Canberra East. This counts applications inside this statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
By the number of dwellings proposed, as lodged. Figures are the applicant’s own and are not verified by AreaSearch.
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough to change how Canberra East works, ranked by committed value and how close they are to delivery.
Multiple industrial developments including new two-storey industrial buildings, telecommunications facilities (30m monopole), waste transfer stations, truck depots, and industrial warehouse facilities.
ACT is progressing an integrated program to enhance high-frequency bus and future light rail corridors linking Belconnen, Woden, and Queanbeyan with central Canberra. Light Rail Stage 2A (City to Commonwealth…
Canberra Airport
Major highway safety upgrades over 8km from Jerrabomberra Creek intersection to David Warren Road. Pavement rehabilitation of both carriageways and on/off ramps. Federal funding of $17.5 million building on…
Development applications around Canberra East
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| Lodged | Address | Description | Type | Distance | Status |
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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 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.
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 Canberra East.
The same view of building approvals, applications and major projects for areas neighbouring Canberra East.
Canberra East is Statistical Area Level 3 80103 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 3 Statistical Areas Level 2. It has an estimated 2,035 residents, +5.2% 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 | 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.
AreaSearch tracks 162 development applications of material scale across Canberra East — routine minor works such as signage and fencing are not included, so this is not a count of every application lodged, of which 10 remain in assessment. The most recent application in our data was lodged in June 2026.
AreaSearch tracks 3 current major projects in Canberra East, 2 of them under construction. The largest include Hume Industrial Development Expansion, Enhanced bus and light rail corridors (Belconnen & Queanbeyan to Central Canberra) and Monaro Highway Safety Upgrades.
On development approvals, Canberra East is adding new dwellings more slowly than Australian Capital Territory as a whole — 0.07 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.70.
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.