Accuracy
Electronic documents submitted to the Council must be exact and fully legible reproductions of the original documents or plans.
File Format
All documents must be submitted in PDF or PDF/A format. All security settings such as password protection and editing restrictions must be disabled.
The plans and documentation should not be scanned and must be directly created or converted into PDF or PDF/A format where possible.
Documents
All documents must be A4 formatted and optimised for minimum size (online publishing). Files larger than 10MB must be broken up into logical parts and supplied as separate files.
Subfolders and zip files must not be used.
Plans
Plans must be
- saved in PDF format, grouped together with their relevant plan type, and should be titled using our naming conventions below.
- to scale, and the scale should be clearly displayed on every page.
- rotated to landscape and provided in PDF format.
Plans should not be scanned and must be directly created or converted into PDF or PDF/A format where possible.
Colour plans are highly desirable and are to have a resolution between 300 and 900dpi. Black and white plans may be accepted on the basis that they are created in grayscale at a resolution of at least 300dpi.
Photos or Photomontage
Photos are to be provided as PDF or PDF/A format.
Public exhibition of the development proposal
Supporting documents must not contain any personal or financial information. Documents provided with an application will be available in line with the Government Information Public Access (GIPA) Act 2009.
File naming conventions
All document titles must follow our required style as follows 'Document description - Property address'.
For example, Site plan - 123 Station Street Mullumbimby or Sections - 123 Station Street Mullumbimby.