Building Permit Applications in the City of Casey, Australia, Since 1994

City of Casey, Australia, maintains a register of building permit applications lodged since 1994. The dataset includes records for residential, commercial, and other building works, with attributes such as suburb, ward, year issued, and permit classification. It is updated on an ongoing basis by the City of Casey to support transparency under the Building Act 1993.

Use Cases

• Analyzing construction trends over time based on application dates and year issued.
• Mapping development activity across suburbs and wards using location-based attributes.
• Comparing the volume of residential versus commercial building works based on permit classifications.
• Supporting municipal planning and policy decisions with a historical record of building activity.

Strengths

• Historical coverage of applications dating back to 1994.
• Includes multiple location attributes such as suburb and ward for spatial analysis.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV, GEOJSON, XLS, and JSON.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

City of Casey

Collection Method

Register of applications lodged in accordance with the Building Act 1993.

Time Range

1994 to present

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-20 20:24:32.322917; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Casey municipality, Australia