Council is happy to process building and development applications as quickly and efficiently as possible. Most development applications are processed and approved within a 40 day period.

Documents on Exhibition

Local Environmental Plans

• Gunnedah Shire Map

• Gunnedah Town Map

• Villages Map

Development Contribution Plans

• Section 94 & 64 Contributions Plan (pdf 1.5MB)

• Section 94A Contributions Plan (pdf 1.42MB)

Development Control Plans

• Part 1 - Development Application Process (pdf 1065KB)

• Part 2 - Specific Types of Development (pdf 928KB)

• Part 3 - Planning Issues (pdf 1002KB)

• Part 4 - South Gunnedah - April 2008 (pdf 1468 KB)

• Part 5 - East Gunnedah - April 2008 (pdf 2542KB)

• Part 6 - Rural Residential Industrial Estate - April 2008 (pdf 100KB)

• Part 7 - East Lincoln Street - April 2008 (pdf 1041KB)

• Part 8 - Central Business District - April 2008 (pdf 734KB)

Forms

• Building Certificate Application

• Combined Development Application and Construction Certificate

• Complying Development Application

• Construction Certificate Application

• Development Consent Application

• Facility Use Agreement - Parks, Gardens and Sporting Grounds

• Food Handlers Application for Registration

• Liquid Trade Waste Application

• Modification of Consent Application

• On-site Sewerage Management System Registration

• Planning Certificate Application

• Property Certificate

• Section 68 Drainage Approvals Application

• Statement of Environmental Effects

• Street Trading Application Form

• Street Tree Removal Town & Villages

• Swimming Pool Compliance Certificate Application

• Swimming Pool-Spa Registration Application

• Tree Removal Application for Private Property

Information

• Access Construction Between Boundary and Edge of Road (305KB)

• Concrete Works Over Driveway - Construction of Driveway(289 KB)

• Food Handling Guidelines for Temporary Events (pdf 226KB)

• Safe Removal of Asbestos (pdf 18.5kb)

• Submission of Development Application Information (pdf 36.4kb)

Land Use Strategy Documentation

• Gunnedah Commercial & Industrial Land Use Strategy (pdf 1226 KB)

• Gunnedah Rural Land Strategy - Addendum (1.6 MB)

• Gunnedah Rural Land Strategy - March 2007

• Namoi 2030 Regional Resource Strategy

Showground Plan of Management Combined Sections

Burning of Vegetation

• Application to Burn Vegetation

• Burning of Vegetation Policy

Floodplain Management

• Blackjack Creek Appendix A

• Blackjack Creek Appendix B - Damages

• Blackjack Creek Appendix C - Consultation

• Blackjack Creek Flood Study 2005

• Draft - Blackjack Creek Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan

• Draft DCP - Principles Of Development

• Gunnedah and Carroll - Floodplain Management Study - 1999

• Gunnedah and Carroll Floodplain Management Plan - 1999