Disclaimer

Important limitations for the Need Approval? preliminary approval checker.

This website provides general preliminary information only. It is not legal advice, planning advice, building surveying advice, engineering advice or certifier advice.

Always confirm your project against the current property title, planning scheme, council controls, overlays, building rules and professional advice where required.

State-aware

Questions are shown based on suburb/postcode detection.

Rules-first

The logic uses structured rules rather than open-ended AI guessing.

Source-backed

Result cards link back to relevant official sources.

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