Chatswood has 16 distinct state-significant developments in the current Willoughby pipeline.

The current all-status NSW Planning Portal filter contains 45 State Significant Development records for the whole Willoughby local government area. Excluding terminal Determination and Withdrawn stages leaves 20 undetermined records. Three concern Castlecrag, St Leonards or Northbridge. The remaining 17 Chatswood records represent 16 distinct developments because one is an early-works case associated with another counted development.

Eleven of those distinct Chatswood developments publish dwelling figures. They total 3,327 dwellings: eight exact figures total 2,087 and three applicant-described approximate figures total 1,240. Five other distinct Chatswood developments publish no dwelling total, so the register does not support an exact whole-pipeline housing total. The earlier unsupported whole-pipeline estimate is withdrawn.

One current proposal is for 56- and 60-storey towers with 552 apartments and is at Response to Submissions. The former Sydney Metro dive-site concept proposes four mixed-use buildings up to 180 metres; a separate assessed application at the site is for 180 build-to-rent units.

What the current register supports

The official register supports a record count, a distinct-development count and a published dwelling subtotal. It does not support an exact whole-pipeline dwelling total, so the article does not infer one from the unquantified proposals.

A separate 260-unit build-to-rent project, Novus on Victoria, was approved on 3 March 2026. The Planning Portal records 147 submissions. That is the exact current official count; it should not be relabelled as 147 objections without a separate submission-by-submission classification.