Development potential — how Waverley Council treats the work you might do
Refuses 10.17% of the development applications it decides · off-street parking 16.67% (determinations to Nov 2023).
The full outlook — every category with confidence ranges, which plan elements come unstuck, and the heritage effect by category — is under Explore the area.
Published auction results at this address
| Auction week | Result | Price | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2026 | Sold | withheld | Sydney Sotheby's International Realty |
From Domain's published weekly auction results — individual outcomes as published; withheld prices stay withheld.
Planning & zoning — R2 Low Density Residential
Houses and dual occupancies. A protected low-rise street — little chance of towers next door.
Registered lots in Vaucluse run 310–970 m² (middle 80% of 51 registered parcels). This one is 607 m² — inside that range.
Whether a block this size can be subdivided or redeveloped is a separate question: minimum lot size, setbacks and the council's DCP controls decide it, and this page doesn't check them. One point per registered parcel, so a tower's parent lot counts once — not once per unit. Confirm the parcel and its controls with the council before you inspect.
Zone R2 (Low Density Residential) under the WAVERLEY LEP, as recorded against this property in the NSW Valuer General's valuation record — a guide, not a parcel-level legal check. Confirm the exact lot at the NSW Planning Portal.
Development outlook — how often Waverley Council has refused this kind of work
| If you wanted to… | Refused | vs NSW | Applications decided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alterations & additions | 8.87% (6.81–11.47%) | 3.4× (NSW 2.63%) | 51 refused of 575 · 20 approved with conditions |
| Off-street parking | 16.67% (11.06–24.35%) | 6.5× (NSW 2.58%) | 20 refused of 120 · 6 approved with conditions |
| Pool, deck or fence | 4.96% (2.86–8.47%) | 2.9× (NSW 1.73%) | 12 refused of 242 · 11 approved with conditions |
| Granny flat | too few to rate | — (NSW 4.45%) | 3 refused of 17 |
| Knock down & rebuild | 11.61% (7.47–17.61%) | 1× (NSW 11.55%) | 18 refused of 155 · 8 approved with conditions |
Across all application types Waverley Council refused 10.17% (8.46–12.17%) of the 1,023 development applications it decided.
Where these applications come unstuck
The refusal rate above says how strict the council is. This says which part of a plan is exposed — measured across all 192,284 NSW development applications, not just this council. Each is an association: plenty of applications carrying these elements are approved, and nothing here is a verdict on a proposal you haven't made yet.
- Alterations & additions — a new vehicle crossing cut into the front boundary (refused 7.27% vs 2.59% for this kind of work generally — 2.8×, on 220 applications); excavation or a new lower level (refused 6.71% vs 2.54% for this kind of work generally — 2.64×, on 611 applications)
- Off-street parking — a new vehicle crossing cut into the front boundary (refused 8.45% vs 2.42% for this kind of work generally — 3.49×, on 284 applications)
- Pool, deck or fence — excavation or a new lower level (refused 6.22% vs 1.61% for this kind of work generally — 3.88×, on 659 applications); full demolition and rebuild (refused 4.97% vs 1.6% for this kind of work generally — 3.12×, on 965 applications)
- Knock down & rebuild — excavation or a new lower level (refused 25.78% vs 9.36% for this kind of work generally — 2.75×, on 256 applications); full demolition and rebuild (refused 19.91% vs 10.46% for this kind of work generally — 1.9×, on 221 applications)
Determinations lodged on the NSW Planning Portal up to Nov 2023 — the published dataset stops there, so this is a record of how the council has behaved, not a forecast and not a statement about any particular application. Rates cover development applications only; modifications and reviews of an earlier decision are excluded. A rate is shown only where at least 30 applications were decided — below that the counts are given instead, because a percentage from a handful of decisions is not a fact about a council. "Approved with conditions" is a consent, not a refusal, and is never counted as one.
Development applications — at & near this address
| Where | Proposal | Status | Outcome | Est. cost | Lodged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~99 m · 3 Macdonald Street Vaucluse 2030 | Dwelling House, Erection Of A New Structure · 2 new dwellings | Determined | not on record | $2.16M | 2024-11-01 |
| ~141 m · 19 Young Street Vaucluse 2030 | Residential Flat Building, Alterations Or Additions To An Existing Building Or Structure, Residential Accommodation | Cancelled | not on record | $6k | — |
| ~141 m · 19 Young Street Vaucluse 2030 | Residential Flat Building, Alterations Or Additions To An Existing Building Or Structure, Residential Accommodation | Withdrawn | not on record | $6k | 2026-04-16 |
Development application data © NSW Department of Planning and Environment, used under CC BY 4.0. Matched at this exact address or within ~150 m of its geocoded point — proximity evidence, not a parcel-level check. Lodged means proposed, not approved or built. Outcome comes from a separate NSW dataset that stops in Nov 2023: applications determined after that, or still undetermined, read “not on record” — which means we don't know, never that it was refused. “Status” is the council's own workflow state and “Determined” on its own does not say which way it went. Verify any application on the NSW Planning Portal.
School catchments
Vaucluse PS (primary) · Rose Bay SC (secondary)
2 primary schools within 2 km · ICSEA ~1132 — the socio-educational advantage of the school community (My School, national average ~1000): a demographic measure, never a results or quality score.
NSW DoE intake zones at this address's geocoded point — tighter than a suburb-level guess, but geocodes carry a few metres of error and boundaries change with reviews. Verify the exact address at School Finder. Intake zones cover government schools only.
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