Establishing the Development Coordination Authority (DCA)

Development Coordination Authority (DCA) is being established to coordinate and centralise state agency advice in the development assessment process – making the planning system faster and easier to negotiate.

From 1 July, DCA will act as a one stop shop to help homeowners, councils, developers and other users get in touch with the right part of the NSW Government to resolve planning matters, eliminating the need to navigate up to 22 different areas of government.

To enable the functions and operations of DCA, we sought feedback on:

• A new framework for statutory inputs on development applications (DAs), which consolidates more than 800 triggers for concurrences or consultation with government agencies and other bodies spread across 175 planning instruments in a single place
• Earlier checking of whether statutory inputs are needed, including verification by DCA
• A single 28-day timeframe for DCA and other bodies to provide input on DAs
• A simpler, fairer fee structure.

The proposed changes were exhibited from 29 January to 25 February 2026. The Department has reviewed and considered the feedback received and has now finalised the changes for commencement on 1 July 2026.

The submissions report and exhibition documents can be found below.  

Webinar video

Thank you to those that joined our webinar information sessions. For those that were unable to attend, this is a recording of the DCA webinar from Thursday, 12 February 2026.

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