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The main purpose of regulating advertising signs is to ensure they are constructed and maintained to ensure public safety and that they complement the surrounding environment. Advertising signs may be temporary, mobile or permanent. The approval also considers any structure forming part of the sign and its location on the building/property on which it is to be erected.

The applicant for a licence must be a legal entity (eg person(s) or Company).
Note - a business name or shop name is not a legal entity and cannot be the licence holder.

You are required to check with Council that your Advertising Sign complies with the advertising code under the Council planning scheme and has the relevant development approval if required.

Step 1
Check if your Advertising Sign is self assessable. If you meet the self assessment checklist, you are not required to submit a development application to Council.

Step 2
If your Advertising Sign is not self assessable, it may be Code Assessable. Code Assessable activities require an Integrated Development Assessment System (IDAS) application with Council.

Step 3
If your Advertising Sign is beyond the criteria for Code Assessable, you will need to contact Council for further information on an Impact Assessment IDAS application
Fees may apply to both Code and Impact Assessable applications.

Once Development Approval has been confirmed your advertising sign may require a licence (local law approval).

The following types of advertising signs require a local law approval from council:

Previously for Caboolture:
The applicant for a licence must be a legal entity (eg person(s) or Company).
Note - a business name or shop name is not a legal entity and cannot be the licence holder.

The following types of advertising signs require a local law approval from council:

All signs (with the exception of Permitted Signs) require approval under Councils Local Law 25 - Control of Advertisements

Sign categories are dependant on the type of sign, and where they are located. Signs are categorised as follows:

Approved Permitted Signs (application fee is required)
Licence Permitted Signs and Consent Permitted Signs (application fee and annual licence fee is required)
Prohibited Signs (not permitted within the shire)

For further information regarding sign categories, contact Council

Previously for Redcliffe:
All signs, notices or advertisements that can be seen from a road or other public place and are displayed on public or private land.

This includes A-frame signs (portable, self-supporting, double-faced signs, having a commercial nature) in Business Centres and Local Service Area Zones (areas zoned General Business B, Special Business, Local Business Comprehensive Development [where Development Control Plan precincts allow retailing to be carried out] or Special Facilities [where the schedule contains retail and commercial uses] under the planning scheme).

The following types of advertising signs do not require an approval from Council:

Preivously for Caboolture:
All signs, notices or advertisements that can be seen from a road or other public place and are displayed on public or private land.

This includes A-frame signs (portable, self-supporting, double-faced signs, having a commercial nature) in Business Centres and Local Service Area Zones (areas zoned General Business B, Special Business, Local Business Comprehensive Development [where Development Control Plan precincts allow retailing to be carried out] or Special Facilities [where the schedule contains retail and commercial uses] under the planning scheme).

Previously for Redcliffe:

a sign authorised by or under another local law (excluding a local law policy)
a sign governed by section 126 of the Traffic Regulation 1962
a sign displayed on public land by or on behalf of,or with the permission of, the local government:
a sign displayed inside a building on private land
a sign that is not attached to land.

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