The PipelineDevelopment Pipeline in Eastern Suburbs - South
1 Proposed332applications in assessmentLeading · to September 2026See applications ↓
2 Approved464dwellings approved in 2025-26, or 0.24 per 100 existing dwellings a yearOfficial · ABS to August 2026See approvals ↓
3 Building54major projects committed or under construction, 20 of them already on siteForward · completions to 2029+See projects ↓
4 Delivered1,578new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 2.5% on the existing baseActual · to August 2026Where it landed ↓
In the 2025-26 financial year the ABS recorded 464 dwelling approvals across Eastern Suburbs - South. Right now, 332 development applications are lodged in the Randwick local government area. AreaSearch tracks 54 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Newmarket Randwick at an estimated $1.00bn. On the ground, 1,578 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.
ApprovedBuilding Approvals in Eastern Suburbs - South
What councils and certifiers have formally
permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Approvals are running at 0.24 per 100 existing dwellings a year, below the New South Wales rate of 0.59. Recent approvals are dominated by attached housing — apartments, townhouses and other non-detached dwellings make up 80% of them. Detached houses make up 27% of the homes already standing here but only 18% of the past five years of approvals, so the area is densifying. The average approved dwelling is valued at $717,000 in construction cost.
For its size, Eastern Suburbs - South is adding 0.24 dwellings a year per 100 existing homes — below the New South Wales rate of 0.59 and the national rate of 0.71. That is about 2.7 approvals a year for every 1,000 residents. Building intensity has fallen by about 37% across the published series.
Measured against people rather than housing stock, Eastern Suburbs - South is approving 3.17 dwellings a year per 1,000 residents — below the New South Wales rate of 6.06. The two rate views differ by household size, which here averages 2.6 people per home. Housing the projection to 2041 would need about 2.74 per 1,000 residents a year.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing
homes, with New South Wales 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 403.
How intensively is it building?
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Eastern Suburbs - South0.24
New South Wales0.59
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)27%
Approved, last 5 years18%
Approved, latest year20%
Detached housesApartments, townhouses & other
Approvals mix by year
Share of each year’s approvals.
2023
2024
2025
2026
2025-26
$476m
Residential work approved
2025-26
$528m
Commercial work approved
construction cost
$717,000
Average value per approved dwelling
last two years
453
Residents per approval
Supply & DemandIs Eastern Suburbs - South Building Enough Homes?
The same approvals, measured against the population
they have to house.
Eastern Suburbs - South approves about 2.7 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 13,248 residents but only 1,578 new addresses — about 8.4 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 405 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 403 a year about level with 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 home8.4
Average household size2.6
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)403
Implied need to 2041405
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. 85
of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the
Analysed marker in the search below.
AreaSearch tracks 4,243 development applications of material scale lodged with council across Eastern Suburbs - South, the most recent in September 2026. 332 of them are still in assessment. The most common types in the queue are multi-residential, retail and commercial. Live applications account for about 1,521 proposed dwellings.
Number of applications by development type. This is the clearest
single picture of what kind of place Eastern Suburbs - South is being asked to become. Councils in
New South Wales do not publish an estimated cost of works in
their planning feeds, so applications here are counted rather than valued. A further 45 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.
Approved3,037
Determined424
Under Assessment235
Withdrawn172
Additional Information Requested108
Refused78
116 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 Eastern Suburbs - South. This counts applications inside this
statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
Randwick3,876
Randwick City Council359
Recent applications in Eastern Suburbs - South
By the number of dwellings proposed, as lodged. Figures are the applicant’s own and are not verified by AreaSearch.
Integrated development for the demolition of existing structures to enable the construction of a mixed-use development comprising two towers above a…Kingsford · Deferred Commencement · lodged Jun 2025
532 dwellings
Construction of a 251-room co-living student accommodation development with ground floor retailKingsford · Notification/Advertising · lodged Feb 2026
251 dwellings
Large Retail DevelopmentsKensington (NSW) · Under Assessment · lodged Oct 2025
200 dwellings
Aged Care / Retirement and Multi-Unit Residential (10+) developmentMaroubra - South · Under Assessment · lodged Nov 2025
99 dwellings
Section 4.55(1) administrative modification to reassign consent conditions across two approved lotsMalabar - La Perouse · Notification/Advertising · lodged Jul 2026
90 dwellings
Concept DA for 7-storey co-living and two 8-storey residential flat buildings with basement parkingRandwick - South · Notification/Advertising · lodged Jan 2026
60 dwellings
Demolition and replacement of faulty glazed facade louvres on an existing mixed-use buildingKensington (NSW) · Notification/Advertising · lodged Aug 2026
59 dwellings
8-storey mixed use building comprising 2 affordable apartments and 42 co-living roomsMaroubra - South · Notification/Advertising · lodged Feb 2026
44 dwellings
BuildingFORWARDMajor Projects & Infrastructure in Eastern Suburbs - South
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough
to change how Eastern Suburbs - South works, ranked by committed value and how close
they are to delivery.
AreaSearch tracks 54 current projects across Eastern Suburbs - South. The largest is Newmarket Randwick at an estimated $1.00bn, due by 2027. That breaks down as 20 under construction, 13 approved and awaiting a start and 21 still in planning. The pipeline is weighted toward residential development, education & training and sports & recreation.
Under construction$1.00bnby 2027
Newmarket Randwick
A comprehensive $1 billion mixed-use redevelopment of the historic 5-hectare Inglis Newmarket Stables site. The masterplanned precinct features approximately 642 residential dwellings across multiple stages…
Google Pacific Connect - Tabua and Honomoana Cable Landing Infrastructure
Major subsea cable landing infrastructure for Google's Pacific Connect Initiative, supporting the Tabua and Honomoana transpacific cables connecting Australia to the United States, Fiji, and French Polynesia…
A 12-storey teaching and learning building for UNSW Sydney's Kensington campus, replacing the former G25 at-grade carpark on the eastern side of the upper campus. The project delivers approx. 19,567 sqm GFA of…
Randwick High School Co-educational Facility UpgradeUnder construction · Education & Training · by 2027 · Randwick - South
$42m
Yorktown Parade and Fitzgerald Avenue Affordable Housing RedevelopmentApproved · Residential Development · by 2028 · Maroubra - South
$90m
IGLU Student Village UNSWApproved · Education & Training · by 2026 · Kensington (NSW)
$228m
The Kensington by TOGAUnder construction · Residential Development · by 2026 · Kensington (NSW)
$180m
Coogee Bay Hotel RedevelopmentApproved · Tourism · by 2026 · Coogee - Clovelly
$111m
Iglu KingsfordUnder construction · Education & Training · by 2026 · Kingsford
$85m
Anson Group Anzac Parade Residential DevelopmentUnder construction · Residential Development · by 2026 · Kensington (NSW)
$104m
Bundock Street Housing RedevelopmentIn planning · National Security · by 2028 · Kingsford
$75m
Randwick Junction Town Centre Planning StrategyIn planning · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2045 · Randwick - South
$300m
Coogee Beach Water Quality Improvement ProjectUnder construction · Environmental & Disaster Management · by 2026 · Coogee - Clovelly
$7m
229 Anzac Parade Mixed-Use DevelopmentUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2026 · Kensington (NSW)
$35m
Kingsford GreenIn planning · Education & Training · by 2029 · Kingsford
$146m
39 further projects in
Eastern Suburbs - South are not listed here.
Combined values on this page exclude
1 record that appear to be
separate stages of a project already counted. Both are still listed
above with their own values.
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Beyond 2030:
a further $1.05bn across
2 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 Eastern Suburbs - South
Development applications around
Eastern Suburbs - South
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.
Applications
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In the local catchment
Est. Value
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Where disclosed
Under Assessment
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Awaiting determination
Determined
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Approved or decided
Approvals pipelineStatus, location, timing and project scale
Loading development applications…
Lodged
Address
Description
Type
Distance
Status
SOURCE: Planning portals and council registers, compiled by AreaSearch. Distance & bearing measured from the suburb midpoint.
ProfessionalPRODevelopment Map for Eastern Suburbs - South
Applications and major projects plotted where
they are actually proposed, with the
78 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 Eastern Suburbs - South
Eastern Suburbs - South covers 11 statistical areas, and development is not spread evenly between them. Randwick - South alone accounted for 34% of the area’s dwelling approvals in 2025-26. The top three between them took 58% of the total.
Approvals per 100 existing homes in
2025-26, by statistical area, with the Eastern Suburbs - South figure marked. Ranked
rather than stacked: rates cannot be added together.
Approvals per 1,000 residents in 2025-26,
by statistical area, against each area’s own estimated resident population, with the
Eastern Suburbs - South figure marked. A small area building hard is invisible in
the totals view and obvious here.
Dwelling approvals each financial year, split by the statistical area they
fell in. Each column totals the whole Eastern Suburbs - South figure from the
approvals chart above — SA2s nest exactly inside an SA3, so the two always reconcile.
Tap or click an area in the legend to hide it and compare the rest.
The smallest 6 areas are
grouped as one band.
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Eastern Suburbs - South.
Planning AuthoritiesCouncils Covering Eastern Suburbs - South
Development in Eastern Suburbs - South is assessed within the Randwick 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 Eastern Suburbs - South.
Data & MethodSources & Method for Eastern Suburbs - South
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 August 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
Eastern Suburbs - South is Statistical Area Level 3 11802 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 11 Statistical Areas Level 2.
It has an estimated 147,491 residents, +9.9% since the 2021 Census.
Currency
Measure
Source
To
Dwelling approvals, five-year average
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
House share of approvals
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Residents per approval
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Value per approved dwelling
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Commercial work approved
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Verified new addresses since the Census
Address register / AreaSearch
August 2026
Development applications
Council planning portals
September 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 Eastern Suburbs - South — common questions
How many new dwellings were approved in Eastern Suburbs - South?
The ABS recorded 464 dwelling approvals across Eastern Suburbs - South in the 2025-26 financial year, against a five-year average of 403 a year.
How many development applications are lodged in Eastern Suburbs - South?
AreaSearch tracks 4,243 development applications of material scale across Eastern Suburbs - South — routine minor works such as signage and fencing are not included, so this is not a count of every application lodged, of which 332 remain in assessment. Applications are assessed within the Randwick local government area. The most recent application in our data was lodged in September 2026.
What major projects are planned for Eastern Suburbs - South?
AreaSearch tracks 54 current major projects in Eastern Suburbs - South, 20 of them under construction. The largest include Newmarket Randwick, Google Pacific Connect - Tabua and Honomoana Cable Landing Infrastructure and UNSW G25 Education Building.
Which council covers Eastern Suburbs - South?
Eastern Suburbs - South is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by the Randwick local government area. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
Is Eastern Suburbs - South growing faster than the rest of New South Wales?
On development approvals, Eastern Suburbs - South is adding new dwellings more slowly than New South Wales as a whole — 0.24 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.59.
How current is this development data?
ABS building approvals are published with a lag of roughly four months; this page carries the series to August 2026. Development applications are collected from council planning portals and refresh continuously, with the most recent application here lodged in September 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.
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