We provide a range of development advice services to help answer your planning and development enquiries.
Getting advice early can save you time and reduce costs.
The three levels of development advice are:
Our Development Support Officers provide a free development support service to assist with:
Or phone 02 6626 7025 during office hours.
Development related advice is provided by planners or other technical officers.
Advice can be in writing or provided at a meeting.
This service can also be used to review development consent conditions.
You will need to pay the application fee of $235 per hour. One hour is charged on application.
Other fees may apply depending on the complexity of the advice. This includes:
Apply for Development Related Advice
We will contact you if we need more information.
If you have requested a meeting, this will be arranged.
One of our technical officers will conduct research of available documents.
Once completed, we will email the advice to the address provided on the form.
Processing times vary.
If you're in the early stages of planning a development and intend to lodge a Development Application (DA), our Development Advisory Panel (DAP) can help you get advice on specific aspects of your proposal.
What the Panel Does
The panel offers early-stage, focused advice to help you shape your proposal before lodging your DA. It’s designed to:
What the Panel Doesn’t Do
Be Prepared
To get the most out of your meeting, come with a clear concept and specific questions. The more prepared you are, the more helpful the advice will be.
Upload plans and/or documents to support your request and provide specific questions to enable council to invite the appropriate technical staff to the meeting.
Apply for a Development Advisory Panel meeting
We will contact you if we need more information or if we consider a meeting unnecessary.
If a meeting is to be scheduled, you will need to pay the DAP meeting fee prior to the meeting taking place. Development Support Officers will contact you to arrange payment.
Experienced officers will meet with you and go through the specific questions you have raised in the meeting request form.
Meetings usually take place at Council's Administration building, 70 Station Street, Mullumbimby. Requests for Teams or Hybrid of in person and online meeting may be considered and must be clearly stated in the application.
There are only a limited number of development advisory panel meetings available each month.
Once completed, we will email the minutes of the meeting.
For general enquiries, or to confirm which service best fits your proposal contact our Development Support Officers.
02 6626 7025
DSO@byron.nsw.gov.au