• Track your Development Application (DA)
• View recently determined DAs, Search for a DA

• Current Development Applications (DAs) open for comment
• Object or comment on a DA

What is the process?

1. Once you submit your DA, it goes through an initial review and is assigned to an assessment team.
2. If necessary, your application will be sent for expert referrals to applicable bodies internal and external to Council.
3. Most applications then have a advertising and notification period where local residents are able to comment or object to your development.
4. We then assess your DA - common reasons why you may experience assessment delays. 
5. You are then notified of the determination (approval or rejection) of your DA.
   

Track your DA throughout this process.

How long will it take to determine your application?

This varies according to a number of issues including;

• the complexity of the proposed development,
• whether or not it needs to be publicly advertised/notified,
• whether or not it complies with the rules,
• whether or not objections are received, and
• the range and complexity of issues that may need to be considered.

As a guide, the first table below shows the average time taken for Council to determine applications over the last two quarters of 2011/2012 and the first two quarters of 2012/2013.  

The table also indicates the difference in time frames according to the level of delegation exercised in determining the matter.

Summary of Determinations

The last two quarters of 2011/2012 and the first two quarters of 2012/2013

Gross average determination time for Development applications - This includes STOP THE CLOCK, the time we wait for applications to provide additional information

 
Number of Development Applications determined