Lodge or apply online
Various Brisbane City Council applications and services can be processed online. Find out which forms can be lodged electronically with Council.
Advertising signs
- Application for advertising sign approvals
Use this form to apply online for the following applications:- book a prelodgement meeting
- apply for a new advertising sign/s (express or full assessment)
- review a Council decision about an advertising sign licence application
- transfer an existing advertising sign licence/s
- amend an existing advertising sign licence/s
- cancel an existing sign/s.
Animals
- Animal registration
- Animal registration refund request
- Application for a permit to keep a racehorse
- Application for the keeping of livestock in a residential area
- Barking dog complaints
- Replacement registration tag
Bookings
- Auslan interpreter bookings and cancellations
- Community halls - check availability and book online
- Park booking
- Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium booking enquiry
City Hall and King George Square
Contact Council
Development assessment and building
- Building certification
- Conveyance search
- Development application history request
- Development Services enquiry
- Exemption certificate for a local heritage place
- Operational works - compliance assessment application
- Request for assessment - building and development related matters
- Request for itemised breakdown of infrastructure charges
Environmental authority
Events and venues
- Application for event approvals
- Self-assessable (school-based) event permit
- Application for entertainment venues permit
- Investigation into liquor licence request
Filming
Food business
- Application for food business approvals
Use this form to apply online for the following applications:- food business design
- food business licence (fixed premises, mobile vehicle, vending machine)
- footpath dining permit - new permit, amendment or transfer
- roadside vending (standing vehicle, stall, booth licence) - new licence, amendment or transfer
- food safety program accreditation
- agreement to display Eat Safe Food safety rating.
- Eat safe self-audit
- Food safety program - third party audit report
- Inspection report request
- Temporary food stall licence
- Food business - Eat Safe audit review or reassessment
Injury, loss or damage
From time to time, damage to either yourself or your property may arise from a circumstance that you believe was due to Council’s wrongdoing. In this instance, you can apply to seek compensation from Council:
Lighting and banners
Maintenance
- Report it:
- Abandoned vehicles
- Bikeway maintenance
- Change your address
- Damaged kerb and channel (road gutters)
- Footpath maintenance
- Feral animal sightings
- Graffiti removal: private property
- Graffiti removal: public property
- Grass cutting and weed removal
- Illegal dumping
- Missing, damaged or faded line markings
- Missing, damaged or faded traffic signs
- Overgrown land and unsightly objects
- Park maintenance
- Potholes
- Request for new line markings
- Rubbish/debris on a road
- Stormwater drains (new requests or maintenance)
- Tree removal
- Tree trimming
- Website feedback
Malls
- Application for fundraising permit
- CitySafe footage review request
- Work zone permit application including erecting scaffolding and/or hoarding
- Malls busking audition
- Malls traffic permit
- Outdoor dining in malls permit
- Notice of intention to hold a peaceful assembly using Council controlled place form
- Use of City Malls for special event
- Valley malls A-frame sign permit
Owner's consent
Parking
Parks
- Commercial activity in a park (includes but not limited to personal training)
- Temporary access through Council parkland for private works
Plumbing
Personal appearance services
Protected vegetation
- Carry out works on protected vegetation
- Declaration of compliance for approved works to protected vegetation
Rates
- Application to change rating category from 4 to 1 - owner-occupied multi-residential (single family) premises (PDF - 126kb)
- Rate direct debit online application, print a copy (PDF - 136kb) or request a copy
- Not-for-profit community or welfare organisations partial rate rebate scheme online application, print a copy (PDF - 159kb) or request a copy
- Not-for-profit kindergartens partial rebate scheme - online application, print a copy (PDF - 121kb) or request a copy
- Not-for-profit affordable housing partial rebate scheme - online application, print a copy (PDF - 126kb) or request a copy
- Rate account authority (PDF - 77kb), request a copy or apply online
- Rate Account and Services Fee Exemption online application, print a copy (PDF - 74kb) or request a copy
- Change of property use form
- Request a change of property manager - rent roll purchase
- Receiving your rates notice by email application
Siting variations
Traffic volumes
Waste and rubbish bins
- Business recycling service application
- Report a bin problem
- Waste service - green waste recycling bin and/or increased recycling capacity - residential
- Waste service - green waste recycling bin and/or increased recycling capacity - multi unit properties