Victoria
state
data portal
Planning permits are issued by councils under the Planning and Environment Act 1987; building permits are separate and generally issued by private or municipal building surveyors.
Victoria is included primarily for comparison. Where three states collect substantially the same information under different statutes and publish it in three incompatible shapes, the inconsistency itself becomes the finding.
Access to information regime
- Victorian FOI
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic)