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Council Approval Checker
Find out if your Aussie backyard project needs approval
Council Approval Checker is a free tool for Australian homeowners. Select your state, answer a few quick questions about your shed, deck, pergola, or carport, and get an instant answer on whether you need council approval. Covers all 8 states and territories. No signup, no jargon, just a clear result in under 30 seconds. Built for anyone planning a backyard project in Australia.
I got frustrated trying to figure out if my backyard shed needed council approval in NSW, the rules were buried in planning documents and different for every state. So I built a free tool to solve it.
Council Approval Checker lets any Australian homeowner pick their state, answer a few quick questions about their structure, and find out in 30 seconds whether they need council approval or not.
It covers all 8 states and territories sheds, decks, pergolas, carports. It's completely free, no signup required, and I've kept it simple on purpose.
Would love any feedback from the community, especially if you spot anything that could be improved for your state. Check it out at www.councilchecker.com.au
About Council Approval Checker on Product Hunt
“Find out if your Aussie backyard project needs approval”
Council Approval Checker was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Council Approval Checker is a free tool for Australian homeowners. Select your state, answer a few quick questions about your shed, deck, pergola, or carport, and get an instant answer on whether you need council approval. Covers all 8 states and territories. No signup, no jargon, just a clear result in under 30 seconds. Built for anyone planning a backyard project in Australia.
On the analytics side, Council Approval Checker competes within Productivity, Construction and Home improvement — topics that collectively have 655.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Council Approval Checker performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Council Approval Checker?
Council Approval Checker was hunted by Vinod Fernando. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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