The PipelineDevelopment Pipeline in The Hills District
1 Proposed158applications on record, none of them currently openLatest February 2026See applications ↓
2 Approved786dwellings approved in 2025-26, or 0.63 per 100 existing dwellings a yearOfficial · ABS to August 2026See approvals ↓
3 Building25major projects committed or under construction, 14 of them already on siteForward · completions to 2030+See projects ↓
4 Delivered2,386new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 7.1% on the existing baseActual · to August 2026Where it landed ↓
In the 2025-26 financial year the ABS recorded 786 dwelling approvals across The Hills District. AreaSearch tracks 25 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Brisbane Northern Suburbs Corridor Capacity at an estimated $9.90bn. On the ground, 2,386 new addresses have been verified since the 2021 Census — growth of 7.1% 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 The Hills District
What councils and certifiers have formally
permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Approvals are running at 0.63 per 100 existing dwellings a year, below the Queensland rate of 0.77. The mix is genuinely split — 67% of recent approvals are detached houses and 33% are attached or higher-density dwellings. Detached houses make up 92% of the homes already standing here but only 66% of the past five years of approvals, so the area is densifying. The average approved dwelling is valued at $422,000 in construction cost.
For its size, The Hills District is adding 0.63 dwellings a year per 100 existing homes — below the Queensland rate of 0.77 and the national rate of 0.71. That is about 4.8 approvals a year for every 1,000 residents. Building intensity has risen by about 100% across the published series.
Measured against people rather than housing stock, The Hills District is approving 8.16 dwellings a year per 1,000 residents — in line with the Queensland rate of 8.54. The two rate views differ by household size, which here averages 3.0 people per home. Housing the projection to 2041 would need about 1.89 per 1,000 residents a year.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing
homes, with Queensland 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 471.
How intensively is it building?
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
The Hills District0.63
Queensland0.77
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)92%
Approved, last 5 years66%
Approved, latest year67%
Detached housesApartments, townhouses & other
Approvals mix by year
Share of each year’s approvals.
2023
2024
2025
2026
2025-26
$354m
Residential work approved
2025-26
$39.3m
Commercial work approved
construction cost
$422,000
Average value per approved dwelling
last two years
175
Residents per approval
Supply & DemandIs The Hills District Building Enough Homes?
The same approvals, measured against the population
they have to house.
The Hills District approves about 4.8 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 8,725 residents and 2,386 new addresses, roughly one new home per 3.7 extra residents — broadly in step with an average household of 3.0. Housing the population projected for 2041 implies roughly 186 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 471 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 home3.7
Average household size3.0
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)471
Implied need to 2041186
Implied need assumes the average household stays
at today’s 3.0 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. 3
of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the
Analysed marker in the search below.
AreaSearch tracks 158 development applications of material scale lodged with council across The Hills District, the most recent in February 2026. The most common types in the queue are multi-residential, commercial and childcare.
Number of applications by development type. This is the clearest
single picture of what kind of place The Hills District is being asked to become. Councils in
Queensland do not publish an estimated cost of works in
their planning feeds, so applications here are counted rather than valued.
Where the applications stand
As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are
applications still in assessment.
Determined136
Decided11
Current7
Past4
By local government area
Applications on record within each council area that
overlaps The Hills District. This counts applications inside this
statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
Moreton Bay150
Brisbane8
Recent applications in The Hills District
By the number of dwellings proposed, as lodged. Figures are the applicant’s own and are not verified by AreaSearch.
Subdivision into 6 lots for rural residential and mixed rural uses (dwelling, animal husbandry, nursery).Dayboro · Current · lodged Dec 2025
6 dwellings
Material Change of Use - Preliminary Approval for Dwelling House, Dual Occupancy, Home Based Business, Park, Sales Office, and Utility Installation…Cashmere · Current · lodged Feb 2026
Request to Change (Minor) - Preliminary approval for a material change of use for Dwelling House, Dual Occupancy, Dwelling Unit, Home Based Business…Cashmere · Determined · lodged Dec 2025
Building Work - Development Permit for Shop (Extension and Renovation) - assessed against the Planning Scheme;;Samford Valley · Determined · lodged Dec 2025
Request to Change (Minor) - Material Change of Use - Preliminary Approval for Dwelling House, Home Based Business, Park, Sales Office and Utility…Cashmere · Determined · lodged Dec 2025
Carry Out Building Work - SKJ QLD Pty Ltd (Primary Applicant), PROPERTY PROJECTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (Consultant)Albany Creek · Decided · lodged Nov 2025
Building Work - Development Permit for Dwelling Extension (Home Office) and Domestic Outbuilding (Shed) - assessed against the Planning SchemeEatons Hill · Determined · lodged Nov 2025
Material Change of Use - Development Permit for WarehouseThe Hills District · Determined · lodged Nov 2025
BuildingFORWARDMajor Projects & Infrastructure in The Hills District
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough
to change how The Hills District works, ranked by committed value and how close
they are to delivery.
AreaSearch tracks 25 current projects across The Hills District. The largest is Brisbane Northern Suburbs Corridor Capacity at an estimated $9.90bn, due by 2035. That breaks down as 14 under construction, 3 approved and awaiting a start and 8 still in planning. The pipeline is weighted toward residential development, communities, precincts & urban renewal and communities.
Under construction$180mby 2028
Eatons Crossing Village
Eatons Crossing Village is a masterplanned residential community by Elm Properties at Eatons Hill. The estate will deliver around 450 homes through a mix of residential lots and townhomes together with parks…
Vantage Lilywood is an over-50s land lease community delivering 296 homes within the Waraba growth corridor, City of Moreton Bay. Homes are designed and built by Villaworld Homes by AVID. A $17 million…
Masterplanned residential community delivering 120 premium townhomes in a hillside setting with resort-style amenities including pool, gym, and landscaped parklands.
Stockland RivermontUnder construction · Residential Development · by 2035 · Dayboro
$250m
The SanctuaryUnder construction · Residential Development · by 2026 · Cashmere
$30m
Arana CentralIn planning · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2030 · The Hills District
$250m
Brisbane Northern Suburbs Corridor CapacityIn planning · Transport & Logistics · by 2035 · Eatons Hill
$9.90bn
Albany Links Estate Stage 5 & 6Under construction · Residential Development · by 2026 · Albany Creek
$38m
Everton Hills CentralIn planning · Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2028 · The Hills District
$45m
New State School for Caboolture West (Waraba)In planning · Education & Training · by 2031 · Dayboro
$25m
Arana Hills Plaza Ambience UpgradeUnder construction · Retail · by 2026 · The Hills District
Ferny Grove to Samford Road Cycleway (Stage 2)Under construction · Transport & Logistics · by 2025 · The Hills District
$9m
Winn Road Resurfacing and Kremzow Road RehabilitationUnder construction · Transport & Logistics · Cashmere
Mayfair JoynerUnder construction · Residential Development · Cashmere
10 further projects in
The Hills District are not listed here.
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Beyond 2030:
a further $10.2bn across
3 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 The Hills District
Development applications around
The Hills District
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 The Hills District
Applications and major projects plotted where
they are actually proposed, with the
35 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 The Hills District
The Hills District covers 6 statistical areas, and development is not spread evenly between them. Cashmere alone accounted for 73% of the area’s dwelling approvals in 2025-26. The top three between them took 90% of the total.
Approvals per 100 existing homes in
2025-26, by statistical area, with the The Hills District 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
The Hills District 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 The Hills District 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 1 areas are
grouped as one band.
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.
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opens per area rather than across the whole of
The Hills District.
Planning AuthoritiesCouncils Covering The Hills District
Development in The Hills District is assessed within the Moreton Bay 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 The Hills District.
Data & MethodSources & Method for The Hills District
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
The Hills District is Statistical Area Level 3 31401 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 6 Statistical Areas Level 2.
It has an estimated 98,511 residents, +9.7% 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
February 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 The Hills District — common questions
How many new dwellings were approved in The Hills District?
The ABS recorded 786 dwelling approvals across The Hills District in the 2025-26 financial year, against a five-year average of 471 a year.
How many development applications are lodged in The Hills District?
AreaSearch tracks 158 development applications of material scale across The Hills District — 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 Moreton Bay local government area. The most recent application in our data was lodged in February 2026.
What major projects are planned for The Hills District?
AreaSearch tracks 25 current major projects in The Hills District, 14 of them under construction. The largest include Eatons Crossing Village, Vantage Lilywood by AVID Property Group and Hills Quarter Everton Hills.
Which council covers The Hills District?
The Hills District is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by the Moreton Bay local government area. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
Is The Hills District growing faster than the rest of Queensland?
On development approvals, The Hills District is adding new dwellings more slowly than Queensland as a whole — 0.63 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.77.
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 February 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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definitive under any circumstances. Please follow links and conduct other
investigations from the project’s source for actual imagery. Developers and
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