Frontage and civil works application

You require approval from Bayside Council if you have an approved Development Application (DA) which includes a requirement to construct extensive public domain works.

Lodgement of this application is a condition of your DA Consent before any Construction Certificate is issued, however you don’t require our approval of the public domain plans before the construction certificate is issued.

Public domain works can include, but are not limited to the following, to satisfy relevant development consent conditions:

Civil
Drainage
Landscaping
Undergrounding of services (electrical)
Lighting
Traffic signage, and line marking
Parking, and traffic control devices.

The frontage works assessment and approval process can be complex and needs to be understood before you can do any frontage works.

You may submit the following documents, if you have them already prepared at lodgement:

Preliminary Civil Public Domain plans
Preliminary Landscape Public Domain plans
Preliminary Electrical plans

We require lodgement of all plans and supporting documentation in digital form as PDF documents.

Check the Lodgement Guidelines for Engineering Applications.

Payments made by MasterCard or Visa incur a service fee of 0.5%.

A non-refundable application fee is required at submission. The assessment of the application will not commence until the application fee has been paid.

Once assessed, and if approved, you will be required to pay any additional fees and charges in order to receive approval. See our Fees and Charges.

Fees – charged at lodgement

Your fees with be calculated depending on your DA/CDC cost of development/development value* along with a minimum of three (3) public domain inspections.

$0-$600,000 cost of development/development value*	$600
$600,000 - $20,000,000 cost of development/ development value*	0.1 % of development value
$20,000,000 or greater cost of development/ development value*	0.1 % of development value to a maximum of $20,000
Public Domain Inspections Minimum 3 inspections at lodgement	$874.50 per application
*Cost of development/development value is the total DA/CDC value, not the cost of the public domain works.

Fees and charges paid after lodgement.

Public domain inspections -additional inspections as required.

$291.50

Public domain performance bond** - required to be paid to Bayside Council prior to the issue of the Practical Completion Certificate for the purposes of obtaining an Occupation Certificate.

Performance Bond can be refunded at final inspection 12 months after Practical Completion.

10% of ‘Contributed Assets’ value (or minimum $5,000)

plus, $2,000 per street tree

**The bond may be applied by us to rectify defective or non-compliant public domain works, and the establishment and maintenance of landscaping and street trees.

Once your application is received you may be contacted for further information.

Your application is not a permit to undertake work. Your permit will only be issued after assessment, approval and outstanding fees are paid in full.

A minimum period of 20 working days is required to assess the application. Longer processing times are required for large works or for activities on Classified roads, which require the concurrence from relevant stakeholders.

If you have any questions, contact on 1300 581 299 Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 5pm

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Frontage works assessment and approval process

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