Your guide to the development application process
To make the pathway to building your home faster and easier the Department of Planning and Environment has created "Your guide to the Development Application process".
The guide explains the development assessment and construction approval processes to assist you in preparing and lodging 'assessment ready' development applications (DAs), as well as explaining the next steps to get you building.
Related information
Development consent and construction approval process overview
If you get the front end right you will have a simple DA process
Lodgement and initial administration by council of your application
What happens to my DA now?
The decision
Get your organisation certificate and organise construction
Get your Occupation Certificate, move in and celebrate