Build a single house — Brisbane, accepted development plus building approval

Where a house complies with the planning scheme it may need no development application at all — only a building development approval from a certifier. The comparison with the NSW pathways is the point.

developmentSingle detached dwelling on an existing lot draft compare across jurisdictions

68 days elapsed
longest dependent chain

6 discrete steps
across 2 bodies

7% waiting on availability
scheduling or queue, not assessment

0 days saved by concurrency
vs. 68 if run end-to-end

Where the time goes

Critical-path days only. Steps that run alongside others are real work but do not lengthen the process, so counting them here would overstate the prize.

applicant	38d	Waiting on the applicant to supply or fix something.
assessment	25d	Someone is genuinely evaluating the merits.
scheduling	5d	Waiting for a person or committee to become available.

5 of 68 elapsed days are spent waiting for a person or a meeting rather than for a judgement to be formed. Removing that time changes no assessment standard and lowers no bar -- it is the cost of scheduling alone.

The process, step by step

Applies when: The dwelling is accepted development under the planning scheme, so no planning application is required and only building approval is needed.

#	Step	Who	Why it waits	Clock	Typical	Basis
1	Prepare plans and engineering application	—	applicant	—	35 estimate	—
2	Engage a building certifier application after Prepare plans and engineering 30d slack	Building certifier (Qld)	applicant	—	3 estimate	—
3	Siting variation or referral referral only if triggered Required where the design departs from the acceptable siting provisions, for example boundary setbacks. Triggered when: The design does not meet the acceptable outcomes for siting. after Prepare plans and engineering 8d slack	Brisbane City Council — Development Services	queue	—	25 estimate	—
4	Building development approval certification after Engage a building certifier 15d slack	Building certifier (Qld)	assessment	—	15 estimate	Building Act 1975 (Qld)
5	Mandatory inspections inspection after Building development approval 10d slack	Building certifier (Qld)	scheduling	—	5 estimate	—
6	Final certificate certification after Mandatory inspections	Building certifier (Qld)	assessment	—	10 estimate	—

on the critical path scheduling/queue = delay not caused by the assessment itself

Machine-flagged questions

These are produced automatically from the dependency graph. They are questions for a practitioner, not findings. Each one needs a person who has run this process to say whether the constraint is real.

The same body asked more than once

qld-building-certifier (certification) appears at Building development approval, Final certificate. Could these be a single sign-off?

Sources

Planning Act 2016 (Qld) — categories of development
Building Act 1975 (Qld) — building development approvals

Something wrong here?

This page is wrong in some way -- every page like it is. If you have run this process, the most useful thing you can do is tell us which step took longer than we say and why. Edit data/processes/qld-dwelling-brisbane.toml and open a pull request, or send us the correction.