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Planning and building

Building and construction COVID–19 economic stimulus incentives

To assist our city's recovery from the economic impacts of COVID-19, a range of incentives and discounted services are now available which are designed to stimulate and streamline new building and construction work, particularly smaller-scale projects across the city.

Incentives include (but are not limited to):

implementation of the Express Development Application process (Express DA), including a 50 per cent fee reduction
Referral Agency Applications – 50 per cent fee reduction
pre-lodgement meeting requests – fees waived
faster assessment timeframes for Request to change applications.

For further information visit our building and construction COVID-19 economic stimulus incentives page.

Use the links below to find information on planning, building, construction, development and buying and selling property on the Gold Coast.

Building and plumbing

Find information about approvals for building works, retaining walls, swimming pool fencing, plumbing and drainage. Submit applications and book inspections online.

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High rises with cranes on Gold Coast beach side

Development applications

Learn about the development application stages and how to lodge an application with the City. Search for applications on PD Online and have your say on a development.

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Guidelines and tools

View our City Plan and interactive mapping, search property and development application information using PD online, plus other development guidelines and tools.

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