Building certification

We approve and control building activity on private land and public spaces. These statutory functions include inspecting building works as the principal certifier to ensure regulations, building codes and standards are compliant.

We're also responsible for approving temporary structures such as construction hoardings and scaffolding erected on public roadways and other temporary structures such as stages and marquees at events. We offer on-site pre-approval meetings with builders prior to installing hoardings and scaffolding.

Our technical team members are accredited under the Building Professionals and Development Certifiers Act to carry out the statutory functions of an accredited certifier. This includes entering into a contract with customers to undertake certification work.

Certain approvals are required before you undertake building works. The majority of development activity in our area requires approval through a development application.

When development consent is granted, a construction certificate must be obtained before work can start.

Some building works and change of building use can be undertaken through a simpler approval process called complying development. In most cases, approval under this system is issued within 10 days. There are many categories of complying development.

Works that are carried out without any formal approval are called exempt development. The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment has further information.

From 1 January 2023, any 2-storey development or addition on land in Rosebery where the Rosebery Estate Covenant applies must be assessed as a development application and not complying development.

The Department of Planning, Industry has temporarily excluded the Housing Code and the Low Rise Housing Diversity Code in the State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008 (Codes SEPP) in the Rosebery estate.

Small types of development, including single-storey additions and decks, will be able to be approved under a complying development certificate after 31 December 2022. Any complying development certificates in the Rosebery estate must comply with the Codes SEPP and the framework that requires homes to be single storey.

If you have questions about specific developments or the planning controls in the Rosebery estate, you can contact a duty planner on 02 9265 9333 or at [email protected]

Visit the NSW Planning Portal for more information.

We offer building approval services as the certifying authority.

Under the law we are required to enter into a contract with customers to assess applications, undertake inspections and to issue certificates. If you wish to appoint us as your principal certifier, you must also complete a contract for certification work with your application.