1 Proposed1,386applications on record, though this council feed does not publish assessment statusLatest June 2024See applications ↓
2 Approved463dwellings approved in 2024-25, or 0.40 per 100 existing dwellings a yearOfficial · ABS to June 2026See approvals ↓
3 Building36major projects committed or under construction, 16 of them already on siteForward · completions to 2030+See projects ↓
4 Delivered1,685new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 2.7% on the existing baseActual · to June 2026Where it landed ↓
In the 2024-25 financial year the ABS recorded 463 dwelling approvals across Yarra Ranges. AreaSearch tracks 36 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Kinley Estate (Former Lilydale Quarry) at an estimated $2.00bn. On the ground, 1,685 new addresses have been verified since the 2021 Census — growth of 2.7% 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 Yarra Ranges
What councils and certifiers have formally
permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Approvals are running at 0.40 per 100 existing dwellings a year, below the Victoria rate of 0.80. The mix is genuinely split — 41% of recent approvals are detached houses and 59% are attached or higher-density dwellings. That is a clear shift toward density — the five-year average is 53% houses. Detached houses make up 94% of the homes already standing here but only 53% of the past five years of approvals, so the area is densifying. The average approved dwelling is valued at $451,000 in construction cost.
For its size, Yarra Ranges is adding 0.40 dwellings a year per 100 existing homes — below the Victoria rate of 0.80 and the national rate of 0.71. That is about 3.5 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, Yarra Ranges is approving 5.01 dwellings a year per 1,000 residents — below the Victoria rate of 7.97. The two rate views differ by household size, which here averages 2.8 people per home. Housing the projection to 2041 would need about 1.67 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 570.
How intensively is it building?
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Yarra Ranges0.40
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)94%
Approved, last 5 years53%
Approved, latest year41%
Detached housesApartments, townhouses & other
Approvals mix by year
Share of each year’s approvals.
2022
2023
2024
2025
2024-25
$230m
Residential work approved
2024-25
$385m
Commercial work approved
construction cost
$451,000
Average value per approved dwelling
last two years
272
Residents per approval
Supply & DemandIs Yarra Ranges Building Enough Homes?
The same approvals, measured against the population
they have to house.
Yarra Ranges approves about 3.5 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 5,411 residents and 1,685 new addresses, roughly one new home per 3.2 extra residents — broadly in step with an average household of 2.8. Housing the population projected for 2041 implies roughly 268 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 570 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 home3.2
Average household size2.8
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)570
Implied need to 2041268
Implied need assumes the average household stays
at today’s 2.8 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 1,386 development applications of material scale lodged with councils across Yarra Ranges, the most recent in June 2024. The biggest categories in the queue by value are commercial, retail and aged care.
Coverage
AreaSearch reads applications directly from each council’s planning register.
This whole area sits within one council, and nothing has been lodged in its register since June 2024. Treat everything below as the position at that date rather than as today’s live queue.
Estimated value of applications by development type. This is the clearest
single picture of what kind of place Yarra Ranges is being asked to become. A further 5 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.
Approved2
A further 1,384 applications carry no status in the council feed.
By local government area
Applications on record within each council area that
overlaps Yarra Ranges. This counts applications inside this
statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
Yarra Ranges1,386
No current list of the largest applications can be shown for Yarra Ranges.
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
1,386 applications AreaSearch holds for this area, lodged
between Aug 2003 and Sep 2020, are counted in the figures above.
BuildingFORWARDMajor Projects & Infrastructure in Yarra Ranges
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough
to change how Yarra Ranges works, ranked by committed value and how close
they are to delivery.
AreaSearch tracks 36 current projects across Yarra Ranges. The largest is Kinley Estate (Former Lilydale Quarry) at an estimated $2.00bn, due by 2040. That breaks down as 16 under construction, 4 approved and awaiting a start and 16 still in planning. The pipeline is weighted toward environmental & disaster management, transport & logistics and residential development.
Under construction$146mby 2026
Summerset Chirnside Park Retirement Village
Continuum-of-care retirement village delivering independent living villas and cottages, assisted living apartments, and an on-site care home with resort-style amenities (pool, lounge, cinema, cafe, salon…
Kinley is a 163-hectare masterplanned community transforming the former Lilydale (Cave Hill) Quarry into a sustainable, transit-oriented neighbourhood in Melbourne's east. The project will deliver…
A 37,138 square metre logistics estate on a 3.7 hectare Industrial 1 zoned site in Melbourne's outer east, redeveloped through adaptive re-use with strong sustainability credentials including solar PV, EV…
Chirnside Park Mixed-Use SiteIn planning · Communities, Precincts & Urban Renewal · by 2029 · Chirnside Park
$45m
150 Cambridge Road Master Plan DevelopmentUnder construction · Sports & Recreation · by 2039 · Kilsyth
$6m
270 Maroondah Highway Industrial DevelopmentIn planning · Business Parks & Technology Hubs · Chirnside Park
$85m
Cave Hill Railway Station (Kinley)In planning · Transport & Logistics · Mooroolbark
$80m
21 further projects in
Yarra Ranges are not listed here.
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Beyond 2030:
a further $2.06bn across
5 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 Yarra Ranges
Development applications around
Yarra Ranges
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 1,386 applications for Yarra Ranges, 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 Yarra Ranges
Applications and major projects plotted where
they are actually proposed, with the
56 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 Yarra Ranges
Yarra Ranges covers 13 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
Yarra Ranges.
Yarra Ranges spans 2 local government areas — Yarra Ranges and Cardinia. 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 Yarra Ranges
Applications on record
Register read to
Yarra Ranges
100% of residents
1,386
June 2024
Cardinia
0.1% of residents
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Not yet collected
CompareNearby Development Hubs
The same view of building approvals, applications and
major projects for areas neighbouring Yarra Ranges.
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
Yarra Ranges is Statistical Area Level 3 21105 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 13 Statistical Areas Level 2.
It has an estimated 160,667 residents, +3.5% 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
June 2024
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 Yarra Ranges — common questions
How many new dwellings were approved in Yarra Ranges?
The ABS recorded 463 dwelling approvals across Yarra Ranges in the 2024-25 financial year, against a five-year average of 570 a year.
How many development applications are lodged in Yarra Ranges?
AreaSearch tracks 1,386 development applications of material scale across Yarra Ranges — 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 Yarra Ranges and Cardinia local government areas. The most recent application in our data was lodged in June 2024.
What major projects are planned for Yarra Ranges?
AreaSearch tracks 36 current major projects in Yarra Ranges, 16 of them under construction. The largest include Summerset Chirnside Park Retirement Village, Kinley Estate (Former Lilydale Quarry) and Kilsyth Connect Logistics Park.
Which council covers Yarra Ranges?
Yarra Ranges is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by parts of 2 local government areas — Yarra Ranges and Cardinia. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
Is Yarra Ranges growing faster than the rest of Victoria?
On development approvals, Yarra Ranges is adding new dwellings more slowly than Victoria as a whole — 0.40 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 June 2026. Development applications are collected from council planning portals and refresh continuously, with the most recent application here lodged in June 2024. 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.
Denotes AI-based impression for illustrative purposes only, not to be taken as
definitive under any circumstances. Please follow links and conduct other
investigations from the project’s source for actual imagery. Developers and
project owners wishing us to use original imagery please Contact
Us and we will do so.