Surrender of Development Consent

A surrender of a Development Consent is the formal process by which a person voluntarily relinquishes the Development Approval previously granted by Council to undertake a specific development.

Council requires written notice to process the surrender of a consent as per Section 4.63 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and Section 68 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021.

Once the surrender of a development consent is processed and accepted, Council will provide an acknowledgement letter confirming that the Development Consent has been surrendered.

All rights and obligations associated with the original development consent will then be extinguished.

Refunds of contributions and/or security deposit bonds will only be considered where the application has been formally surrendered and no works have commenced. If you have received a Construction Certificate (CC) or Notice of Commencement (NOC), your certifier will need to confirm in writing that no works have commenced.

If you wish to surrender a consent, please complete the online form below.

68 Voluntary surrender of development consent – the Act, s 4.63

(1) A development consent may be voluntarily surrendered by written notice to the consent authority.

(2) The notice must contain the following information.

Part A

Person giving notice of request

First name

Last name

Company name

If relevant

Address

Address 2

City/Town

Postcode

Phone

Mobile

Are you the land owner?

Yes

Property owners

Name of ALL property owner/s

Re-order	Name	Weight	Operations
	Name	Item weight

more items

If the person giving the notice is not the land owner, please upload a statement signed by the land owner to the effect that the owner consents to the surrender.

Upload statement

One file only.
10 MB limit.
Allowed types: pdf.

Part B

Commencement of works

If the development has commenced, please provide a statement and supporting documents declaring the following:

(a) the commenced development was carried out in compliance with:
- i) each condition of the development consent that is relevant to the commenced development, or
- ii) an agreement with Council relating to the development consent that is relevant to the commenced development, and
(b) that the surrender will not have an adverse impact on any third party or the locality.

Statement to sufficiently detail the above requirements

Upload supporting documents and / or statement

Maximum 10 files.
10 MB limit.
Allowed types: jpg, jpeg, png, pdf, doc, docx.

Part C

Request of refund of Contributions and / or Security Deposits

A refund will only be considered where the application has been formally surrendered and no works have commenced. If you have received a Construction Certificate (CC) or Notice of Commencement (NOC), your certifier will need to confirm in writing that no works have commenced.

Development contribution request refund

Yes

Bond refund request

Yes

Declaration

By submitting this form I understand that I am declaring that:

- The information I have given is complete and correct
- I understand that it is an offence to provide false or misleading information about my identity

I agree

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