Lodging a Development Application
The following groups of forms and documents are related to the Gold Coast Planning Scheme and are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word (DOC).
- Planning Scheme information
- Pre-assessment requirements for operational works
- Prelodgement meetings
- Development applications
- Fees and charges
Pre-assessment is a free service which assists applicants to lodge quality operational works development permits. Applicants are required to provide their completed proposals for a pre-assessment check, prior to lodgement with Council. This pre-assessment includes a check of the proposal against SPA Properly Made requirements but is not an assessment of the proposal. As such, it does not guarantee a specific outcome for the development application (ie. further requests for information may be made during the assessment of the application).
The pre-assessment service is available for operational works including:
- Change to ground level
- Works for infrastructure civil engineering
- Material Change of Use (MCU)
- Reconfiguration of a Lot (ROL)
- RiskSmart- Development applications approved in five days
- Operational Works (OPW)
- Other
Development applications can be lodged by: Post
Addressed to:
Mr Dale Dickson
chief Executive Officer
Gold Coast City Council
PO Box 5042
Gold Coast MC 9729, or
Over the counter at any of the Customer Service Branches
If you should have any questions regarding lodgement please contact The Town Planning Advice Centre on (07) 5582 8708
Electronic Lodgement
From 11 March 2013, Gold Coast City Council is pleased to advise it's customers that it will be accepting applications via email. Initially this will be only available for RiskSmart application types for a trial period. However, it is envisaged it will be rolled out for all other application types in a staged approach over the next 12-18 months.
Gold Coast City Councils elodgement process will enable our customers to lodge certain development application types electronically. This will be Gold Coast City Councils preferred method of lodgement until a portal based lodgement system is available as it is quicker, more convenient for our customers and better for the environment than lodging your application over the counter or by mail.
For further information in regard to lodging your RiskSmart application via email, please visit the RiskSmart Application page.
Development Application Types and Forms Required
Lodgement Requirements for Development Applications (PDF 272kb)
Summary of Development Application forms required (PDF 140kb)
