Support for applicants

Where the state government is involved as either a referral agency or the assessment manager, pre-lodgement advice can be obtained by contacting the State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA) through the regional office closest to you.

A Pre-Application Meeting provides the opportunity for the applicant and or their consultants to present one or more of the following submissions for initial advice:

• A completed development application, prior to it being formally lodged with Council. (ie. material change of use, reconfiguring a lot, operational works)
• Initial feedback to a proposed development application where major proposal parameters are known and researched but some direction is required from Council prior to the formal lodgement of the application.

If your project meets the above requirements, please complete a pre-application meeting form(PDF, 193KB) to arrange a meeting with Council.

A council officer will contact you within five business days to arrange a meeting.

Note: Pre-application meetings are offered as a free service by the Development Assessment Branch, and as such meeting minutes are not distributed following the pre-application meeting. However, you are welcome (and encouraged) to take your own meeting minutes. Again, pre-application meetings should not be substituted for independent professional advice or a comprehensive due diligence process.

Gympie Regional Council - Planning process protocol

• Planning process protocol(PDF, 230KB)

Following are State Government guides to assist you with your application forms:

• DA forms guide: Forms 1 and 2
• DA forms guide: Relevant plans
• DA forms guide: Planning report template
• Owner’s consent fact sheet

State Government templates:

• Owner’s consent (company)
• Owner’s consent (individual)
• Notice about stopping the current period
• Notice about the revival of a lapsed development application
• Notice of compliance with public notification requirements
• Notice of intention to commence public notification
• Notice about making an extension application
• Notice about missed referral
• Notice about change development application
• Applicant response to an information request
• Extension agreement notice

Decision notices and deemed approval notice:

• Decision notice approval (Planning Act Form 2)
• Decision notice refusal (Planning Act Form 3)
• Deemed approval notice (Planning Act Form 4

Other Statutory forms

• Temporary use licence application

Public Notification of development and change applications

• Planning for Queensland’s waste and resource recovery industry (windows.net)
• Changing Cancelling or extending a DA after approval factsheet
• Develop Assessment Rules - Guidance for Development assessment
• Having your say on a development application

Forms with supporting templates/checklists

DA Form 1: Development application details

Supporting templates:

• Template 1: Taking or interfering with artesian or subartesian water
• Template 2: Taking or interfering with water in a watercourse, lake or spring
• Template 3: Taking over land flow water
• Template 4: Waterway barrier works

DA Form 2: Building work details

Checklist:

• Referral checklist for building work

Survey Plan Sealing Request

• Survey Plan Sealing Request Details - PDF024(PDF, 188KB)

Change application form

• Change application (Planning Act Form 5)

Below is a list of the types of consultants (although not intended to be an exhaustive list) who may be able to assist you depending on your project and the services you require.

Note: Council does not endorse particular suppliers

Surveyors

Provide:

• boundary surveys
• advice on boundaries
• determining boundaries
• preparing development applications

Resources:

Guidelines for Surveys to property boundaries, developed by the Surveyors Board of Queensland

Town Planners

Provide:

• preparation of development applications
• advise on development and design

They may also provide:

• project management services in specialist areas such as:
  • the environment
  • transport
  • heritage
  • services planning

For more information you can also visit:

• Planning Institute of Australia
• Urban Development Institute of Australia (Queensland)

Architects and building designers

Provide:

• Building concepts, drawings and design services

They may also assist with:

• site evaluation
• project management

Engineers

Provide:

• Plans, designs and advise on structural requirements

They may work in a specific field such as:

• construction
• land development
• structural or hydraulic design
• soil or water treatment

Resources:

• RPQ (Registered Practising Engineers Qld)
• Engineers Australia
• Association of Hydraulic Services Consultants Australia

Landscape architects

Provide:

• Concepts, designs and drawings for outdoor spaces

They may also assist with:

• site master planning
• project management
• advice on site rehabilitation
• preparing development applications

Resources:

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects

Solicitors

Provide:

• legal advice

They may also provide:

• specialist services

There are options available under the Planning Act to change an approval once it has been given. The process and requirements for seeking a change to an approval will depend on the timing of the request and also the nature of the changes proposed.

Development approvals will always have a currency period – that is, the length of time given before having to start the development.

Development approvals can lapse if development has not started and/or completed within the currency period. The Planning Act does provide the ability to request an extension of time if needed.

Changing Cancelling or extending a DA after approval factsheet(PDF, 950KB)