Planning Register Online

The information in the Planning Register has been compulsorily collected and made public under law for a particular purpose.

The purpose of the Planning Register is to enable any person to check that a planning permit application has been lodged, the location of proposed land development or use and the outcome of any assessment of a planning permit application.

Cardinia Shire Council is the Responsible Authority for the administration of the Cardinia Planning Scheme. Under section 49 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987, the Responsible Authority must keep a register in the prescribed form of:

• all applications for permits; and
• all decisions and determinations relating to permits.

The Act also requires the Responsible Authority to make the register available at least during office hours for any person to inspect free of charge. This Planning Register Online fulfils the requirements of the Act.

Cardinia Shire Council must also fulfil the requirements of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 which is applied so far as is reasonably practicable to personal information held on public registers.

Under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014, it may be an interference with the privacy of an individual for a person to search through the names, addresses and other information held on the Planning Register in order to identify and market products or services to a section of the Register that meets a particular socioeconomic profile.

Consequently, a condition of use of the Planning Register is that you will not facilitate direct marketing to a property where an entry for that property does not show consent to receive direct marketing at that address.

For more information about how Cardinia Shire Council meets its obligations under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014, please view Council’s privacy policy www.cardinia.vic.gov.au/privacy.