Make a request for Council information

The following open access information can be found on our website.

• Code of conduct, adopted under section 440 (3) of the Local Government Act 1993 (LGA)
• Code of meeting practice
• Annual report
• Annual financial statements
• Equal Employment Opportunity management plan - EEO and Discrimination Prevention Policy
• Councillor’s Expenses and Facilities Policy
• Annual reports of bodies exercising functions delegated by Council
• Any codes referred to in the Local Government Act
• Register of Annual Disclosure of Pecuniary Interests of Councillors and Designated Staff(PDF, 54MB)
• Primary returns of interests of Councillors following 2021 election(PDF, 39MB)
• Register of Declarations of Interests at Council Meetings(PDF, 118KB)
• Agendas and business papers for any meeting of local authority or any committee of the local authority (but not including business papers for matters considered when part of a meeting is closed to the public)
• Minutes of any meeting of Council or any committee of Council, but restricted (in the case of any part of a meeting that is closed to the public) to the resolutions and recommendations of the meeting.

The following information can be accessed by making an Open Access Request:

• Office of Local Government Representative Reports presented at a meeting of Council
• Land register
• Register of investments
• Register of delegations
• Register of graffiti removal works kept in accordance with section 13 of the Graffiti Control Act 2008
• Register of current declarations of disclosures of political donations kept in accordance with section 328A of the LGA
• The register of voting on planning matters kept in accordance with section 375A of the LGA.

1. Local policies adopted by Council
2. Plans of management for community land
3. Byron Local Environmental Plan 1988
4. Byron Local Environmental Plan 2014
5. Development control plans
6. S.94 contribution plans made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 applying to land within the Byron Shire Council area.

1. Applications for approvals under part 1 of Chapter 7 of the LGA and any associated documents received in relation to such an application
2. Applications for approvals under any other Act and any associated documents received in relation to such an application
3. Records of approvals granted or refused, any variation from Council local policies with reasons for the variation, and decisions made on appeals concerning approvals
4. Orders given under Part 2 of Chapter 7 of the LGA, and any reasons given under section 136 of the LGA.
5. Orders given under the authority of any other Act
6. Records of building certificates under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
7. Plans of land proposed to be compulsorily acquired by Council
8. Compulsory acquisition notices
9. Leases and Licenses for use of public land classified as community land.