When a council (or another responsible authority) decides that a planning application must be advertised, one of the usual requirements is a notice displayed on the land itself. Someone has to print it, put it up in the right place by the right date, keep it there for the whole period, and be able to show afterwards that it was done. That is what SiteNotice Australia does, across Melbourne and Victoria.
Who the service is for
Most requests come from planning consultants, architects, building designers, developers and builders who manage applications for clients, and from property owners handling their own application. If you have the council's notice instructions and a deadline, the service is for you.
What happens, step by step
- You send the request. The site address, the authority's instructions, the notice artwork (or the wording to print), the date the notice must be up by and how long it must stay up. Several sites can go in one request. You can request a quote online.
- We check and quote. We read the instructions, ask about anything missing (gate access, a construction-site contact, an unusual frontage) and send a written quote. No work starts before you accept it.
- Printing, if you need it. We print and laminate the notice from the artwork as issued, mounted for outdoor display. We never change the wording of a statutory notice.
- Installation. Our installer puts the notice up as the instructions require — number of signs, position on the land, height and visibility from the street — and photographs it to a fixed checklist.
- Review. A named person checks every required photo against the checklist before anything is released to you. If something could not be done exactly as instructed, the report says so.
- Your report. You receive an evidence report by email and in your client portal, ready for the application file.
- Removal. We record the end of the display period, come back to remove the notice and photograph the site afterwards, on the same job.
What the photographs show
Four shots are taken at every installation: a wide view with the property and the notice in one frame, the whole notice with all four edges visible, the notice text close enough to read, and its position on the street frontage. Each photo carries its capture time and location, which are compared with the booked visit and the address. Originals are kept unaltered.
What we need from you
- The site address and the responsible authority
- The planning application number
- The authority's notice instructions
- The notice artwork or printed notice
- The date it must be up by and the display period
- Access details if the frontage is behind a gate or hoarding
What we do not do
We do not write or alter statutory notice wording, and we do not make statutory declarations on a client's behalf — where the authority asks for one, the applicant makes it, supported by our dated evidence. Requirements differ between councils and between applications, so we always work from the instructions issued for your application rather than a general rule.
Next step
Request a quote with the site address and your dates, or read how the whole job runs.