Please ensure you have all the information required for the permit. Read the Planning application process overview and further details below.
Please note: The Minister for Planning is responsible for any proposed developments exceeding 25,000 m2, all permit applications at particular sites within the City of Melbourne and certain types of major planning permit applications. For more information, visit Ministerial planning applicationsOpens in new tab.
This form is currently unavailable, please email planning@melbourne.vic.gov.au or call 03 9658 9658 to lodge your application.
When lodging your application, you need to include the following documents:
- your completed and signed planning permit application form (PDF 552 KB)Opens in new tab or VicSmart planning permit application form (PDF 852 KB)Opens in new tab
- all required documentation to support your application. This must include:
- a recent copy of the certificate of title including a plan of subdivision, which you can get from LANDATAOpens in new tab
- a valid Metropolitan Planning Levy Certificate if the estimated development cost exceeds $1,207,000 any items indicated in the planning forms and checklists for your application type
- a digital copy of your development plans.
If you don’t submit all the required documents it may delay your application.
We’ll send you an email with a reference number and details on how to pay the application fee.
City of Melbourne is committed to protecting your privacy. The personal information requested on this form is being collected by City of Melbourne for the purpose of the assessment of planning permit applications, parts of which are set out in the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (PE Act). If you included any personal or identifying information about another person in your submission, please ensure you have informed that person you provided their information to City of Melbourne.
The personal information will be used for the following purposes:
- correspond with you about your permit application
- if necessary, notify affected parties who may wish to inspect your application so that they can respond – this may be a notice onsite, in a notice online, and/or by post
- any other directly related, or reasonably related purposes.
The information you provide will be made available:
- online on Council’s website during the public notice period of the application
- on Council’s permit register (no name or personal details are visible in the online register)
- to any person who may wish to inspect your application until the application process is concluded, including any review at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- to relevant officers within Council and other pertinent government agencies directly involved in the planning process
- to persons accessing information in accordance with the Public Records Act 1973, Planning and Environment Act 1987 or the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
The personal information you provide in this planning application will be hosted in Victoria and While NSW does have privacy protections in place, Council does not make assertions as to whether those protections are similar to those available to you in Victoria, under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.
The information will not be disclosed to any other external party without your consent, unless required or authorised by law.
By submitting an application you consent to the storage of your personal information in Victoria and NSW. If the personal information is not collected, we may not be able to process your application. If you have any questions about the storage of your personal information, wish to access or alter any of the information you have supplied to City of Melbourne, please contact the Planning and Building branch by telephone 03 9658 9658 or email planning@melbourne.vic.gov.au.
