Your short-term rental approval, filed properly the first time.

We prepare your management plan, work out exactly which council pathway applies, and lodge the application — so you're not the one reading zoning tables at 11pm.

Pathway checker FORM SP-01
Unhosted
Hosted
DA
REQ'D
Pathway
Development approval required
Unhosted and exceeding the 90-night/year threshold for this council. Requires DA lodgement, including a management plan and neighbour notification.
The actual problem

Every council assesses short-term rentals differently — and most owners find out the hard way.

There's no national standard. What your council requires — which documents, which forms, which questions answered, whether your neighbours get notified — is different from the council next door. Get it wrong and your application comes back. That's where we come in.

Real example — zoning table excerpt
hosted short-term rental P
unhosted short-term rental A
unhosted, Urban Development zone X

"A means not permitted unless council exercises discretion after advertising the application."

What that actually means for you
Your neighbours get formally notified before approval — budget extra weeks, not days.
The management plan needs to anticipate objections, not just tick a checklist.
One suburb over, a different scheme might make the same use a quiet, unadvertised 'D'.
We've already mapped this for the councils we cover — so you don't find out the hard way.
How it works

Four steps, one form.

You answer questions about your property once. We handle the council-specific translation.

01

Tell us the address

We match it to the right local government area and pull the current zoning classification for short-term rental use — hosted and unhosted — straight from the gazetted scheme.

~2 minutes
02

Answer the intake form

Bedrooms, parking, check-in times, who manages the property, house rules. The same questions a council planning officer will be checking for — asked once, in plain language.

~10 minutes
03

We generate your management plan

Built in the exact shape your council expects — some want an 8-section narrative covering proposed use, noise, complaints, maintenance, security, and house rules; others (like Vincent) want a structured form with labelled fields for guest screening, eviction process, and minimum stay. Same intake, the right output either way.

Same day
04

We lodge it with council

Application form, site plan checklist, and management plan submitted the way your specific council requires — in person, by post, or via portal — and we track it through to determination.

Tracked to approval
Coverage

We're building this council by council, deliberately.

Every entry in our system is checked against the actual gazetted scheme text before we'll lodge against it. No guessing, no copy-pasted state summaries.

Western Australia
● Live

90-night unhosted threshold in Perth metro generally — but not every council's management plan even looks the same. Victoria Park wants free-form prose; Vincent wants a structured field-by-field form. We generate the right shape for each.

Queensland
Opening soon

No statewide trigger — pure council-by-council zoning. Starting with Noosa, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast.

New South Wales
Opening soon

180-night hard cap — no DA pathway past it. We'll help with registration compliance, not exemption applications.

Other states
On request

Tell us your council and we'll scope it — most regional and outer-metro areas haven't been mapped by anyone yet.

Pricing

Flat fee. No surprise add-ons mid-application.

Council lodgement fees are separate and paid directly to council — we'll tell you the exact number before you commit to anything.

Pathway check
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Free
No card required
  • Council and zone identified
  • Approval pathway explained
  • Night threshold check
  • Estimated timeframe
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Portfolio
5+ properties, same owner or manager
Custom
Volume pricing
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  • Multi-property dashboard
  • Priority lodgement tracking
  • Dedicated contact
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