These are just some of the residential subdivisions recently proposed and in varying stages of planning and development:

• a 270-home “pre-retirement” village on a large section of the 12-hectare property at 299-325 Church Street, stretching from Settlement Rd to Justice Rd, with a small section up to Church Street;
• 14-20 Redwood Drive: early planning for a subdivision of land into 12 lots;
• 13 Shorland Way, Cowes – early planning for a 9-lot subdivision; 
• there have also been recent early indications for 205-209 and 211-223 Thompson Avenue, next to the RSL, for a subdivision into 42 lots; and 35 Cowes-Rhyll Road into 16 lots;
• In San Remo Penniwells Estate states stage 10 of its development will soon be released.

Various other San Remo estates are in multiple stages of development, including The Outlook on Potters Hill Rd with 12 blocks and Westernport Views on Bonwick Avenue with 29 lots. Panorama estate is now offering house and land packages. At Newhaven there is the Narrows new estate.

Existing subdivision Shoalhaven in Cowes west states it will have a new release soon.
In addition to these new estates, a 19-lot subdivision on the former 1.7 hectare Cowes market site, with a frontage to 225 Settlement Road, is currently under construction, which last year saw surrounding residents shocked when mature gum trees were felled to make way for the estate.

The shire’s planning registry also contains numerous applications for smaller subdivisions of blocks into two or three lots, all within town boundaries.
Bass Coast Shire planners have confirmed there are as yet no applications for a housing subdivision at the Phillip Island airport site, despite preliminary indications several years ago.
However, planners told the Advertiser developers were still interested in the 35-hectare Newhaven West subdivision, which proposed 78 residential lots in 2014.

In 2017 residents along Boys Home Road in Newhaven received a letter from planners representing several owners of a parcel of land at the back of the chocolate factory, between Samuel Amess Drive and Boys Home Road.

The letter stated the land was currently zoned farming, with the owners hoping to rezone it to general residential and rural activity, which would make way for a future possible housing subdivision.