Lodge or apply online

Various Brisbane City Council applications and services can be processed online. Find out which forms can be lodged electronically with Council.

Advertising signs

• book a prelodgement meeting
• apply for a new advertising sign/s (express or full assessment)
• review a Council decision about an advertising sign licence application
• transfer an existing advertising sign licence/s
• amend an existing advertising sign licence/s
• cancel an existing sign/s.

Animals

• Animal registration
• Animal registration refund request
• Application for a permit to keep a racehorse
• Application for the keeping of livestock in a residential area
• Barking dog complaints
• Replacement registration tag

Bookings

• Auslan interpreter bookings and cancellations
• Community halls - check availability and book online
• Park booking
• Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium booking enquiry

City Hall and King George Square

Contact Council

• Contact Council online
• Request a Council publication

Development assessment and building

• Building certification
• Conveyance search
• Development application history request
• Development Services enquiry
• Exemption certificate for a local heritage place
• Operational works - compliance assessment application
• Request for assessment - building and development related matters
• Request for itemised breakdown of infrastructure charges

Environmental authority

Events and venues

• Application for event approvals
• Self-assessable (school-based) event permit
• Application for entertainment venues permit
• Investigation into liquor licence request

Filming

Food business

• food business design
• food business licence (fixed premises, mobile vehicle, vending machine)
• footpath dining permit - new permit, amendment or transfer
• roadside vending (standing vehicle, stall, booth licence) - new licence, amendment or transfer
• food safety program accreditation
• agreement to display Eat Safe Food safety rating.
  

Injury, loss or damage

From time to time, damage to either yourself or your property may arise from a circumstance that you believe was due to Council’s wrongdoing. In this instance, you can apply to seek compensation from Council:

Lighting and banners

Maintenance

• Report it:
  • Abandoned vehicles
  • Bikeway maintenance
  • Change your address
  • Damaged kerb and channel (road gutters)
  • Footpath maintenance
  • Feral animal sightings
  • Graffiti removal: private property
  • Graffiti removal: public property
  • Grass cutting and weed removal
  • Illegal dumping
  • Missing, damaged or faded line markings
  • Missing, damaged or faded traffic signs
  • Overgrown land and unsightly objects
  • Park maintenance
  • Potholes
  • Request for new line markings
  • Rubbish/debris on a road
  • Stormwater drains (new requests or maintenance)
  • Tree removal
  • Tree trimming
  • Website feedback

  Malls

  • Application for fundraising permit
  • CitySafe footage review request
  • Work zone permit application including erecting scaffolding and/or hoarding
  • Malls busking audition
  • Malls traffic permit
  • Outdoor dining in malls permit
  • Notice of intention to hold a peaceful assembly using Council controlled place form
  • Use of City Malls for special event
  • Valley malls A-frame sign permit

  Owner's consent

  Parking

  • Commercial vehicle parking permit
  • Dispute a fine or infringement

  Parks

  • Commercial activity in a park (includes but not limited to personal training)
  • Temporary access through Council parkland for private works

  Plumbing

  Personal appearance services

  Protected vegetation

  • Carry out works on protected vegetation
  • Declaration of compliance for approved works to protected vegetation

  Rates

  • Application to change rating category from 4 to 1 - owner-occupied multi-residential (single family) premises (PDF - 126kb)
  • Rate direct debit online application, print a copy (PDF - 136kb) or request a copy
  • Not-for-profit community or welfare organisations partial rate rebate scheme online application, print a copy (PDF - 159kb) or request a copy
  • Not-for-profit kindergartens partial rebate scheme - online application, print a copy (PDF - 121kb) or request a copy
  • Not-for-profit affordable housing partial rebate scheme - online application, print a copy (PDF - 126kb) or request a copy
  • Rate account authority (PDF - 77kb), request a copy or apply online
  • Rate Account and Services Fee Exemption online application, print a copy (PDF - 74kb) or request a copy
  • Change of property use form
  • Request a change of property manager - rent roll purchase
  • Receiving your rates notice by email application

  Siting variations

  Traffic volumes

  Waste and rubbish bins

  • Business recycling service application
  • Report a bin problem
  • Waste service - green waste recycling bin and/or increased recycling capacity - residential
  • Waste service - green waste recycling bin and/or increased recycling capacity - multi unit properties

  Work on roads and footpaths

  • Application/notice to work on Council property
  • Application for temporary road occupation
  • Application to temporarily close an off-road shared pathway/bikeway
  • Permit to construct a residential driveway