Building approvals, live development applications and major projects across the
Whittlesea - Wallan statistical area — covering Whittlesea, Mitchell and Nillumbik.
SA3 20904Greater Melbourne299,963 residents19 statistical areas
The PipelineDevelopment Pipeline in Whittlesea - Wallan
1 Proposed30applications in assessmentLeading · to October 2026See applications ↓
2 Approved3,465dwellings approved in 2025-26, or 1.30 per 100 existing dwellings a yearOfficial · ABS to August 2026See approvals ↓
3 Building120major projects committed or under construction, 64 of them already on siteForward · completions to 2030+See projects ↓
4 Delivered21,138new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 19.2% on the existing baseActual · to August 2026Where it landed ↓
In the 2025-26 financial year the ABS recorded 3,465 dwelling approvals across Whittlesea - Wallan. Right now, 30 development applications are before the 3 councils covering the area. AreaSearch tracks 120 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan at an estimated $8.50bn. On the ground, 21,138 new addresses have been verified since the 2021 Census — growth of 19.2% 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 Whittlesea - Wallan
What councils and certifiers have formally
permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Approvals are running at 1.30 per 100 existing dwellings a year, well above the Victoria rate of 0.80. Development here remains overwhelmingly detached: houses account for 82% of recent approvals. The mix being approved closely matches what is already standing — 84% houses against 87% of existing homes. The average approved dwelling is valued at $356,000 in construction cost.
For its size, Whittlesea - Wallan is adding 1.30 dwellings a year per 100 existing homes — well above the Victoria rate of 0.80 and the national rate of 0.71. That is about 11.9 approvals a year for every 1,000 residents. Building intensity has been broadly stable across the published series.
Measured against people rather than housing stock, Whittlesea - Wallan is approving 11.94 dwellings a year per 1,000 residents — above the Victoria rate of 7.86. The two rate views differ by household size, which here averages 3.0 people per home. Housing the projection to 2041 would need about 15.40 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 3,567.
How intensively is it building?
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Whittlesea - Wallan1.30
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)87%
Approved, last 5 years84%
Approved, latest year82%
Detached housesApartments, townhouses & other
Approvals mix by year
Share of each year’s approvals.
2023
2024
2025
2026
2025-26
$1.35bn
Residential work approved
2025-26
$552m
Commercial work approved
construction cost
$356,000
Average value per approved dwelling
last two years
78
Residents per approval
Supply & DemandIs Whittlesea - Wallan Building Enough Homes?
The same approvals, measured against the population
they have to house.
Whittlesea - Wallan approves about 11.9 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 47,937 residents and 21,138 new addresses, roughly one new home per 2.3 extra residents — broadly in step with an average household of 3.0. Housing the population projected for 2041 implies roughly 4,619 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 3,567 a year behind 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 home2.3
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)3,567
Implied need to 20414,619
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.
AreaSearch tracks 2,426 development applications of material scale lodged with councils across Whittlesea - Wallan, the most recent in October 2026. The biggest categories in the queue by value are retail, industrial and commercial.
Coverage
AreaSearch reads applications directly from each council’s planning register.
Whittlesea - Wallan is not yet covered evenly. Mitchell (9.0% of residents) — nothing lodged since September 2021. That council is under-represented in every count and chart below.
Estimated value of applications by development type. This is the clearest
single picture of what kind of place Whittlesea - Wallan is being asked to become.
Where the applications stand
As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are
applications still in assessment.
Decision Outcome692
Further Information Required34
Assessment In-Progress30
RFI Responded25
Withdrawn15
Lapsed14
5 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.
A further 1,605 applications carry no status in the council feed.
By local government area
Applications on record within each council area that
overlaps Whittlesea - Wallan. This counts applications inside this
statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
Whittlesea2,239
Mitchell146
Darebin27
No current list of the largest applications can be shown for Whittlesea - Wallan.
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
2,426 applications AreaSearch holds for this area, lodged
between Mar 2010 and Nov 2017, are counted in the figures above.
BuildingFORWARDMajor Projects & Infrastructure in Whittlesea - Wallan
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough
to change how Whittlesea - Wallan works, ranked by committed value and how close
they are to delivery.
AreaSearch tracks 120 current projects across Whittlesea - Wallan. The largest is Beveridge North West Precinct Structure Plan at an estimated $8.50bn, due by 2052. That breaks down as 64 under construction, 25 approved and awaiting a start and 31 still in planning. The pipeline is weighted toward residential development, communities, precincts & urban renewal and transport & logistics.
Under construction$1.00bnby 2029
New Epping Health Hub
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The Northern Hospital Redevelopment is an $813 million two-stage expansion of the Epping campus at 185 Cooper Street, Epping, serving Melbourne's growing northern growth corridor. Stage one is a four-storey…
Major expansion of the Aurora masterplanned community in Melbourne's northern growth corridor, spanning Epping and Wollert. Acquired by the Stockland and Supalai Australia residential communities partnership…
Inland Rail Beveridge to AlburyUnder construction · Transport & Logistics · by 2027 · Wallan
$2.80bn
Beveridge Intermodal PrecinctUnder construction · Transport & Logistics · by 2028 · Whittlesea
$2.50bn
Beveridge Interstate Freight Terminal (BIFT)Under construction · Transport & Logistics · by 2028 · Whittlesea
$1.20bn
Mernda Town CentreUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2028 · Mernda - South
$500m
Heartford EstateUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2029 · Whittlesea
$500m
Wollert Rise EstateUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2027 · Wollert
$450m
Donnybrae Estate by Dennis Family CorporationUnder construction · Communities · by 2026 · Whittlesea
$350m
Mandalay EstateUnder construction · Communities · by 2027 · Wallan
$350m
Matilda DonnybrookUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2028 · Whittlesea
$320m
Mason QuarterUnder construction · Communities · by 2028 · Wollert
$300m
Acclaim DonnybrookUnder construction · Residential Development · by 2030 · Whittlesea
$800m
Wallara Waters EstateUnder construction · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2030 · Wallan
$1.20bn
105 further projects in
Whittlesea - Wallan are not listed here.
Combined values on this page exclude
4 whole-of-state programs that
reach this area but are not
local to it, and 13 records 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 $21.3bn across
17 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 Whittlesea - Wallan
Development applications around
Whittlesea - Wallan
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 516 applications for Whittlesea - Wallan, 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 Whittlesea - Wallan
Applications and major projects plotted where
they are actually proposed, with the
198 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 Whittlesea - Wallan
Whittlesea - Wallan covers 19 statistical areas, and development is not spread evenly between them. Whittlesea alone accounted for 34% of the area’s dwelling approvals in 2025-26. The top three between them took 84% of the total.
Approvals per 100 existing homes in
2025-26, by statistical area, with the Whittlesea - Wallan 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
Whittlesea - Wallan 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 Whittlesea - Wallan 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 14 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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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
Whittlesea - Wallan.
Whittlesea - Wallan spans 3 local government areas — Whittlesea, Mitchell and Nillumbik. Applications here are assessed by whichever of those councils the site falls within. 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.
Local government area
Share of Whittlesea - Wallan
Applications on record
Register read to
Whittlesea
91% of residents
2,239
October 2026
Mitchell
9.0% of residents
146
September 2021
Nillumbik
0.0% of residents
3
September 2012
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The same view of building approvals, applications and
major projects for areas neighbouring Whittlesea - Wallan.
Data & MethodSources & Method for Whittlesea - Wallan
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
Whittlesea - Wallan is Statistical Area Level 3 20904 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 19 Statistical Areas Level 2.
It has an estimated 299,963 residents, +19.0% since the 2021 Census.
Currency
Measure
Source
To
Dwelling approvals, five-year average
ABS / AreaSearch
August 2026
House share of approvals
ABS / AreaSearch
August 2026
Residents per approval
ABS / AreaSearch
August 2026
Value per approved dwelling
ABS / AreaSearch
August 2026
Commercial work approved
ABS / AreaSearch
August 2026
Verified new addresses since the Census
Address register / AreaSearch
August 2026
Development applications
Council planning portals
October 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 Whittlesea - Wallan — common questions
How many new dwellings were approved in Whittlesea - Wallan?
The ABS recorded 3,465 dwelling approvals across Whittlesea - Wallan in the 2025-26 financial year, against a five-year average of 3,567 a year.
How many development applications are lodged in Whittlesea - Wallan?
AreaSearch tracks 2,426 development applications of material scale across Whittlesea - Wallan — routine minor works such as signage and fencing are not included, so this is not a count of every application lodged, of which 30 remain in assessment. Applications are assessed within the Whittlesea, Mitchell and Nillumbik local government areas. The most recent application in our data was lodged in October 2026.
What major projects are planned for Whittlesea - Wallan?
AreaSearch tracks 120 current major projects in Whittlesea - Wallan, 64 of them under construction. The largest include New Epping Health Hub, Northern Hospital Redevelopment and Aurora Estate Expansion.
Which council covers Whittlesea - Wallan?
Whittlesea - Wallan is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by parts of 3 local government areas — Whittlesea, Mitchell and Nillumbik. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
Is Whittlesea - Wallan growing faster than the rest of Victoria?
On development approvals, Whittlesea - Wallan is adding new dwellings faster than Victoria as a whole — 1.30 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 August 2026. Development applications are collected from council planning portals and refresh continuously, with the most recent application here lodged in October 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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