Building, planning & business

• Building works
  • Before you build
  • Building approval and inspections
  • Information for building certifiers
  • Building guidelines: contaminant and pollution control
  • Driveways and easements
  • Fences - boundary, dividing and pool
  • Referral Agency Assessments
  • Swimming pools and spas
  • Tropical building design
    • Cairns Style design guide
• Business regulations
  • Accommodation venues
  • Activities on Council land
  • Advertising Devices
    • Touting
  • Busking
    • Busking FAQs
      • What is busking?
      • Do I need a permit to busk?
      • How do I apply for a busking permit?
      • Does it cost to get a busking permit?
      • Do I need to audition?
      • Where can I busk?
      • When can I busk?
      • Can I busk at a shopping centre?
      • Can I sell CDs or other promotional items?
      • Can I busk if I arrive after the start of the hour?
      • I want to complain about a busker's behaviour. How do I report this?
      • What is Public Liability Insurance and do I need it?
      • What is a dangerous material or implement?
      • How much is the fine for busking without a permit or breaching permit conditions?
      • I am under 16 do I need adult supervision?
  • Food safety and licensing
    • Legislation and regulations
    • Fixed Premises
      • Licence requirements
      • How to apply
      • Footpath dining
      • Food Safety Supervisor notification
      • Food Safety Program
    • Mobile Food Vehicle
      • Licence requirements
      • Locations
      • How to apply
      • Food Safety Supervisor notification
      • Food Safety Program
    • Home-based food business
      • Licence requirements
      • How to apply
      • Other approvals
      • Food Safety Supervisor notification
    • Temporary food business
      • Licence requirements
      • Licence options
      • How to apply
      • Stall design and construction guidelines
      • Food Safety Supervisor notification (annual licence)
    • Non-profit organisations
      • Licence requirements
      • Non-profit concessions
    • Catering
      • Licence requirements
      • Food Safety Program
    • Taking over a food business
      • Pre-purchase search
      • Application process
      • Food Safety Supervisor notification
      • Food Safety Program
    • Renovating or changing
    • Food Safety Program
      • Who needs a Food Safety Program?
      • Food Safety Program criteria
      • Accreditation
    • Food safety training
    • Food Safety Supervisor
  • Personal appearance services
  • Trade waste
• Business & Economic Development
  • Invest
    • Investment incentives
    • Inbound delegations
  • Starting & growing your business
    • Getting started
    • Support to grow
    • Business networks
    • Industry groups
    • Trade and investment
    • Sustainability in business
    • Useful Council links
    • Indigenous business
    • Funding support
  • Data
    • Strategic industry sectors
  • Economic development strategies
  • Film
    • Location
    • Application for filming/photography
      • Filming fees and information
  • Vision2050
  • eUpdates
  • City Centre Review
  • Invest in Cairns - in your language
    • 投资
    • Investieren
    • 投資
    • Investir
  • Keep it in Cairns
  • Cairns Resilient Businesses Network
• Development applications
  • Understanding development
    • Development types
    • Levels of assessment
    • Applicable zoning and overlays
  • Making a development application
    • Preparing a DA and pre-lodgement advice
    • Making a DA
    • Lodging a DA
    • Tracking the progress of a DA
    • Have your say
    • After your development is approved
  • Exemptions
  • Development Applications online
  • Infrastructure charges
    • Infrastructure Charges Estimator
    • Infrastructure charges calculator
    • COVID-19 Response Investment Incentive Policy
  • Referral Agency Assessments
  • Property Report tool
  • Submissions
    • Online Development Submission
• Land record & planning searches
  • Planning searches
    • Limited Certificate
    • Standard Certificate
    • Full Certificate
    • Letter of Enquiry
• Operational Works
  • Submitting application
  • Security Bonds
  • Compliance inspections
  • Driveways
    • What is a driveway and crossover?
    • Expectations of the property owner and the construction industry
    • Operational Works application for a driveway and crossover
    • Technical standards
    • Driveway materials
    • Additional approval from other authorities
    • Other works on roads
    • Return of security bonds
  • Plan Sealing
  • Landscaping
    • On a Landscaping Plan
    • What should I provide?
    • After the Decision Notice/Letter of Endorsement
    • Lodging my application
• Planning Schemes
  • CairnsPlan 2016 Version 2.1
    • CairnsPlan 2016 Version 2.1 Document
      • Part 5 Tables of Assessment v2.1
      • Part 6 Zone Codes v2.1
      • Part 7 Local Plans Codes v2.1
      • Part 8 Overlays v2.1
      • Part 9 Development Codes v2.1
    • CairnsPlan 2016 Version 2.1 PDF Maps
    • CairnsPlan 2016 v2.1 Interactive Mapping
    • Cairns Plan 2016 v2.1 Planning Scheme Policies
    • CairnsPlan 2016 v2.1 Factsheets
  • Cairns LGIP
    • Plans for Trunk Infrastructure
  • Superseded planning schemes
    • CairnsPlan 2016 Version 2.0
      • CairnsPlan 2016 Version 2.0 Document
      • CairnsPlan 2016 Version 2.0 PDF Maps
      • CairnsPlan 2016 v2.1 Interactive Mapping
      • Cairns Plan 2016 Planning Scheme Policies
      • CairnsPlan 2016 Factsheets
    • CairnsPlan 2016 v1.3
      • CP2016 v1.3 Document
      • CP2016 v1.3 PDF Maps
      • Planning Scheme Policies
      • CairnsPlan 2016 Factsheets
    • CairnsPlan 2016 v1.2
      • CP2016 V1.2 Document
      • CP2016 V1.2 PDF maps
    • CairnsPlan 2016 v1.1
      • PDF maps
      • v1.1 Factsheets
      • Documents
      • CairnsPlan 2016 Amendments
    • CairnsPlan 2016 v1.0
      • Feedback
      • CairnsPlan 2016 v1.0 documents
      • PDF maps
      • CairnsPlan 2016 v1.0 PSP's
      • e-newsletters
      • Submission responses
      • Factsheets
    • CairnsPlan 2009
      • CairnsPlan 2009 document
      • CairnsPlan 2009 planning scheme policies
      • CairnsPlan 2009 user guides
      • CairnsPlan 2009 approved amendments
    • CairnsPlan 2005
      • CairnsPlan 2005 Approved Amendments
    • Part of Cairns - Superseded
    • Balance of Cairns - Superseded
  • CairnsPlan 2016 Amendments
  • Property Report tool
• Cairns 2050 Shared Vision
• Advocacy