Development Approvals

  Do I need a Development Application?  

Application Tracking   

• Check before you build
• What is Exempt & Complying Development
• Online Planning Approvals - Electronic Housing Code 
• A Guide to the Development Applications Process  

Online access to development applications which allows you to track the progress of an application from lodgement through to determination. 

Development Assessment Unit Meetings deal with applications which attract some concern but generally can be controlled by conditions. The meeting is held on a Tuesday and is not a public meeting.

• Development Application Process
• Rural and Residential Areas (e.g houses, swimming pools, working from home)
• Business (e.g child care centres, nurseries)
• Bushland Management 
• Resolving Disputes (e.g fences, trees)

Driveways

Subdividing Land

Subdivision and Engineering Specifications

 Subdivision Application Checklist (55.78kB)

Key Forms and Checklists  

Heritage

Forms 

 Development Consent Construction Certificate Form (205.75kB)

 Application to Modify Consent (S96) (49.28kB)

 GIPA Access Application Form (22.54kB)

 Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statement  (120.37kB)

 Waste Management Plan (279.49kB)

For building inspections, engineering works, driveways, registrations (food, hairdresser, skin penetration premises), tree management see More application forms.

Checklists 

 Building Checklist (35.09kB)

 Occupation Checklist Retail, Commercial, Industrial Fact Sheet (99.88kB)

 Subdivision Application Checklist (55.78kB)

 
• Heritage Development Requirements
• Heritage Assistance Fund
• Finding out more about Heritage 

Looking for quality Building Certification Services?

Hills Certifiers is a business initiative of The Hills Shire Council. We specialise in providing building certification services in the Hills Shire Local Government Area that streamline the complete project cycle from building approval, construction inspections to finalisation of your project so it can be occupied and used.

Find out if you are eligible to fast track your application by lodging it as Complying Development. 

Visit The Hills Certifiers web page for more information.