Housing & planning · Cumberland Council
38-apartment affordable housing project approved for Pegler Avenue, South Granville
The Cumberland Local Planning Panel approved DA2026/0397 for a four-storey development at 57 - 61 Pegler Avenue, subject to conditions. People who made submissions are to be notified.
Reporting from public council minutes. How this article was prepared
A four-storey affordable-housing project containing 38 apartments has been approved for 57 - 61 Pegler Avenue, South Granville, after the Cumberland Local Planning Panel voted unanimously to approve DA2026/0397.
The application covers demolition of existing structures, tree removal and construction of the apartments above a basement car park. The approval is subject to conditions attached to Cumberland Council’s assessment report, which are not reproduced in the panel’s minutes.
The panel’s recorded reasons say it considered matters raised in written submissions. It found those issues had either been addressed in the design or, where they had not been specifically addressed, were not sufficient to warrant refusing the application.
People who lodged submissions are to be notified of the determination. The minutes name chairperson Michael Leavey and members Garry Chapman, David Milliken and Yakub Comert as voting for the approval, with no votes against.
The minutes record the approval but do not provide a construction timetable, completion date, funding or ownership details, or further information about how the affordable-housing component will operate.
What deserves a closer look
The approval incorporates conditions from Council's assessment report, but those conditions are not set out in the supplied minutes.
The minutes record the development approval but do not establish a construction start, completion date, funding arrangement, ownership structure or operational details for the affordable housing.
The supplied record is titled minutes but does not explicitly identify its status as draft or confirmed.
Questions for follow-up reporting
What conditions apply to tree removal, construction impacts, parking and landscaping?
Is a construction timetable available for the Pegler Avenue project?
What affordability requirements, ownership arrangements or funding apply to the 38 apartments?
What happens next
People who lodged submissions are to be notified of the determination.
Any development must proceed subject to the conditions attached to Council's assessment report.
Check the record
These passages were matched to the source text. Read them in context in the original minutes.
Development application 2026/0397 concerns demolition of existing structures, tree removal and a four-storey infill affordable-housing development comprising 38 apartments over a basement car park at 57–61 Pegler Avenue, South Granville.
That Development Application 2026/0397 for the demolition of existing structures, tree removal and construction of a four (4) storey in-fill affordable housing comprising 38 residential apartments over basement car park pursuant to State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021on land at 57 - 61 Pegler Avenue South Granville be approved subject to the conditions attached to Council's assessment report.
ITEM ELPP036/26, PANEL DECISION 1
Open original minutes ↗People who lodged submissions are to be notified of the determination.
2. Persons whom have lodged a submission in respect to the application be notified of the determination of the application. REASONS FOR DECISION: 1. The Panel generally concurs with the Planning Officers report subject to the attached conditions within the report.
ITEM ELPP036/26, PANEL DECISION 2
Open original minutes ↗The panel said it had considered written submissions and found the issues either addressed in the design or insufficient to warrant refusal.
Cumberland Local Planning Panel Meeting 11 November 2026 Page 3 2. The Panel has considered the matters raised in written submissions and has determined that these matters have either been adequately addressed in the design of the development or where not specifically addressed are not of such weight as to warrant refusal of the application.
ITEM ELPP036/26, REASONS FOR DECISION 2
Open original minutes ↗The minutes record chairperson Michael Leavey, Garry Chapman, David Milliken and Yakub Comert voting for the decision, with no votes against: four votes for and none against.
3. Subject to the recommended conditions of consent, the proposal will not have any unreasonable impacts on the amenity of neighbouring properties or the locality. For: Michael Leavey (Chairperson), Garry Chapman, David Milliken and Yakub Comert. Against: Nil. ITEM ELPP037/26 - DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS, SECTION 2.20(8), ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 PANEL DECISION: 1. That the Panel pursuant to Section 2.20(8) of the EPA Act, delegates to the Cumberland Council staff members for the time being occupying or acting in the office titled Director Environment and Planning, Executive Manager City Planning and Development, Coordinator Major Development Assessment, and Coordinator Fast Track Development Assessment subject to the conditions specified in Schedule A: (a) The determination of a development application or an application to modify a development consent for the demolition
ITEM ELPP036/26 voting record, continuing at the start of P13
Open original minutes ↗Source record
Reporting from Cumberland Council’s minutes of the Cumberland Local Planning Panel meeting held on 11 November 2026.
Key facts from the minutes
- DA2026/0397 was approved for 57 - 61 Pegler Avenue, South Granville.
- The proposal comprises demolition of existing structures, tree removal and a four-storey infill affordable-housing development with 38 apartments over a basement car park.
- The approval is subject to conditions attached to Council’s assessment report.
- People who lodged submissions are to be notified of the determination.
- The minutes record four votes for and none against.
Why it matters
- The approval permits a 38-apartment development on the Pegler Avenue site, subject to the conditions in Council’s assessment report. The available minutes do not establish when construction will begin or when the apartments might become available.