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Are you building or renovating a property? Ready to apply for building and development works that need our approval or advice?
Before you apply:
- find out how to comply with our requirements for flood protection, water quality and waterway health
- read our application requirements guideline (771.54 KB, PDF) to help with the development and submission of your application (relevant to over 13 application types)
- browse the list of topics below to find out more about a specific application and follow the process to submit it to us
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Building over or near our assets
Permits, developing, subdividing
Flooding information
Pre-development
Other services
Service standards and performance
Our service performance updates show how we’re tracking against our standards for processing planning, development and works applications.