Noosa development applications

8,760 applications on council's public register, 2006 to 2026. Council's own portal will show you an application if you already know what to look for; it will not show you the shape of twenty years.

Compiled from council's public application register (eTrack). Figures are council's, not ours — including the inconsistencies. Every application links back to its page on council's system. Last checked against council's register on 08 October 2026; the most recent application we hold was lodged 07 October 2026. A decision made after that date will not show here yet.

Search all 8,760 applications

Documents. We have read the Documents section of 300 applications' pages on council's system so far (147 of them list documents online), and found 871 documents. The 226 that are council's own (decision notices, delegated decision reports, reports to council, information requests) are searchable here. The rest are listed on each application's page. 1 are residents' submissions, which we count but do not list or index. The reading continues a few hundred applications a night, newest first.

Applications in council's record

The 247 applications named in a meeting, a deputation, a contested vote or a court matter on this site, each with its own page: what council's register says about it and every time it came up in public. Newest first.

Applications lodged each year

Coverage before 2010 is thin — council's register carries only a handful of applications from those years, which is a fact about the register rather than about how much was built.

What gets applied for

Status as council records it

These are council's own status values, unaltered. They mix outcomes with administrative states — "Refused" is a decision, "Change of Contact Person Details" is not — so they are not a tally of approvals and refusals, and we have not turned them into one.

Most frequent applicants

Names exactly as council's register records them. Most are certifiers, arborists and building consultants who lodge on behalf of owners, so a high count means a busy practice, not a busy landowner. The 1,851 applications council records as "Private" are left out of this table and dealt with below.

The applications with no applicant

Council names the applicant on every kind of application but one. On 1,851 of them — 21% of the whole register — the applicant is recorded as “Private”.

Every one of them is a short stay letting application, and they account for 99% of the 1,862 short stay letting applications on the register. No other application type uses it at all.

This is council's own value, shown on council's own application pages — not something missing from our copy. We are not saying why council does it, only that it does, and only for this one class of application.

Most recently lodged

Council's register is the source for all of this. Where a figure here looks wrong, it is either our error or council's — please let us know and we will work out which.