Find the building work near you.
Every development application lodged with 13 Queensland councils, updated three times a day — new houses, units, subdivisions and changes of use before the build starts. Find what's happening around you, see who lodged it, and make your inquiry to win the job.
Live from the councils.
These figures come straight from the application database as you open the page — not a snapshot. The count changes as councils publish.
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The building work lodged in the last seven days on your patch — only categories a residential builder can actually tender for, newest first. Council names are live-linked to the council page.
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Find applications.
Three ways in. Search matches the address or description — a street, a suburb, a word like "childcare". Near an address geocodes an address and shows everything lodged within five kilometres. On the map lets you pan and zoom to any area and pull up the applications around it.
Type something and search, or pick a council to browse its latest.
| Address | Council | Category | Lodged by | Received | Decided | Description |
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Every kind of application.
The building work by what it actually is — new land estates (subdivisions), new houses, units & townhouses, changes of use and more. Pick a council or all of Queensland, then click a type to see and open every one — with who lodged it, how long it's been with council and its outcome.
Show the councils' own raw categories
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Who's behind the applications.
The town planners, engineers, surveyors, certifiers, builders and developers named on development applications — across every council that publishes them (Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, Logan, Gympie, Bundaberg and more). Search a firm, or filter by trade and council, then click any firm to see every job they're on and make your inquiry.
The most active firms across every council — click one to see their work.
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State-assessed · Priority Development Areas
Applications the councils never see.
Applications the councils never see.
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| Reference | PDA | Lodged by | Site | Type | Status | Proposal |
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The whole database
Every application on file, by year.
Every application on file, by year.
Every application ever scraped from every council, not just a search result — this is the shape of the entire database.
Applications received, by year
The whole database, every council, every year on file.
By council
How much each council holds, and how fresh it is.
How much each council holds, and how fresh it is.
Applications on file, by council
Everything scraped from each council's register to date.
Newest application received, by council
Days since the most recent application a council published. A high number means the council is slow to publish, or its feed needs checking.
What this means
Each council is scraped three times a day, and every run checks whether the newest application moved. A council that has not published anything new for a fortnight is flagged here rather than silently shown as up to date.
Head to head
Councils against each other.
Councils against each other.
The same window across every council — who is approving the most development, and which areas are heating up or cooling down.
Applications received last full year
Two-year change in applications
How each council's development activity has moved over two years — rising means more is being lodged, a leading sign of where growth is going.
Source: this app's Development Applications database, per-council counts by year received.
Your last search, charted — what kind of applications, and when they were lodged
What kind of applications they are
The results of your search above, by the council's own category.
Received, by year
How the results spread over time — a recent spike means activity is picking up.
Run a search at the top of the page and its results are charted here.
Every council, when it was last scraped — scrape status & freshness
All 13 councils are scraped automatically three times a day. Below is each one's last run and how fresh it is. To force a scrape right now, double-click “Scrape DAs Now” on your desktop — the website itself can't run the scrapers, they drive a real browser against each council on your machine.
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Why council decision speed excludes private certifiers
In Queensland most building work is signed off by a licensed private certifier, not the council. Those records show when the certificate was filed with council, not how fast council decided anything, so they are excluded from any speed figure — otherwise it measures paperwork. Gold Coast and Redland once showed "decided" dates before "received" dates on 39% and 48% of rows for exactly this reason.
A fast median off three applications is not speed. It's noise.