30 May 2025 release

The following updates were made to the Development Application (Council) service:

• 38 pieces of help text in the development application form have been updated. The language used has been amended to be more inclusive and where possible jargon free.
• The ‘title’ field has been removed from the ‘Primary applicant details’ section of the development application, modification application and review of determination forms.
• The field ‘Number of proposed occupants’ has been removed from the ‘Provide details of your proposed development’ section of the development application, modification application and review of determination forms.
• The field ‘Total Net Lettable Area’ has been removed from the ‘Provide details of your proposed development’ section of the development application, modification application and review of determination forms.
• The ‘Provide the proposed hours of operation by selecting the checkbox beside the day of the week that the business will be open, and entering the corresponding hours.’ fields have been removed from the ‘Selected development types’ section of the development application, modification application and review of determination forms.
• The field ‘What is the number of additional jobs that are proposed to be generated through the operation of the development?’ has been removed from the ‘Proposed operating details’ section of the development application, modification application and review of determination forms.
• The ‘title’ field has been removed from the ‘Payer details’ section of the development application, modification application and review of determination forms.
• The fields that have been removed from the application forms will no longer be visible in the system generated application form.

View the Table of changes.

Application Programming Interface (API)       

Minor housekeeping updates were made to the Online DA service APIv2. There is no urgency for councils and certifiers using these APIs to implement these changes, they could be included in your next scheduled API upgrade. The fields removed as part of this release will no longer be included in the following Online DA service APIv2:

• Outbound API - ‘CreateDA’
• Outbound API - ‘UpdateDA’ 
• Inbound API - ‘EditDA’. 

Note: the fields will not be available for new applications. For applications that were submitted prior to the release, the values will appear in ‘UpdateDA’.

View the technical specification for the APIs for online services for more information.