Pre-lodgement advice and meetings
For further information contact Council on 6549 3700 during business hours.
If you are considering carrying out additions/renovations to your home, or commercial premises, we offer a free service to help when you get started. In the first instance call Council and make an enquiry by phone. Council will take your details and a Planner or Building Surveyor will call you to discuss your questions, usually within 24 hours.
If the matter is more complex we may suggest a free planning advice meeting.
This pre-application service is available to all applicants. The Planning Section Leader, or a Manager will generally chair meetings, with appropriate technical advisers including Heritage, Engineering, or Building Code of Australia (BCA), being present.
Most benefit will be obtained if detailed material (sketch plans, photographs, applicant’s assessment of compliance) is available no less than five (5) working days prior to the meeting. This will enable Council staff to provide more comprehensive analysis of your proposal for pre-lodgement purposes. Sketch plans must be sufficient to detail the full nature and scale of the development, for Council staff to provide accurate advice i.e. elevations, floor plans, site plans.
Council will provide minutes of the meeting to the applicant within five (5) working days of the meeting’s conclusion. These minutes will not be “verbatim”, but will highlight the issues discussed and the meeting’s outcome. The comments provided in the minutes will not be modified.
No pre-application meeting can provide an authoritative statement as to the likely outcome of an application. A determination can only be made following the lodgement of an application and the completion of the assessment process.
Please consult Environmental Services Administration staff before lodging your meeting request to determine the appropriate level of service required.
Note: please complete the below form before attending, as meetings will be booked only upon receipt of the form by Council.
This page last updated 16 February, 2012 12:10 PM
