Easy Permits
For Victorian builders

Hand us your permits. Get more jobs to site.

Planning permits, dispensations, drafting and chasing council: we take the whole Victorian permit pathway off your team, for one fixed fee per job.

$1,950 per permit in Victoria. Paid when the permit is ready. Council lodgement fees are separate.
The problem

7 in 10 Victorian verandah, patio and shed jobs need an extra council approval.

Around 7 in 10 Class 10a projects now trigger another application before the building permit can issue. Until it's sorted, the job is sold but your crew can't start.

Planning permit

Triggered by zones, overlays or covenants on the block.

Length-on-boundary dispensation

When a wall on or near the boundary runs longer than the rules allow.

Overlooking or overshadowing dispensation

When the structure looks into or shades a neighbour's yard or windows.

Build-over easement approval

When footings sit over a drainage or sewer easement.

Other council consents

Any other consent the building surveyor needs before the permit can issue.

The usual fixes

Every in-house fix costs you something.

01
Leave it to the customer

Tell them they need a planning permit or dispensation and let them apply. Most find it daunting, so jobs stall, cancel or drag on for months.

02
Charge for the service

Hire someone to run it and charge the customer around $500. Many push back and try it themselves, and you're back to stalled jobs.

03
Do it for free

Run it in-house at no charge. It works, but it takes full-time staff to chase customers, councils and paperwork.

04
Pay for drafting

Permit-ready plans from a drafting business cost around $300 a job. At volume, that's a six-figure line item.

The Easy Permits package

One fee. The whole permit pathway.

$1,950 per permit in Victoria, paid when the permit is ready. Council lodgement fees are separate.

Permit-ready draft planPrepared by a qualified draftsperson for the building surveyor. No separate drafting bill.
Licensed building surveyor and inspectionsYour building permit managed through to issue, with the required inspections.
Extra council applications, no extra service feePlanning permits, dispensations, build-over easement approvals and other consents: we prepare, lodge and manage them. Your customer pays only the council's lodgement fee.
We do the chasingWe work through the forms, signatures and council requests with your customer, so your team doesn't have to.
Free white-label Compliance CheckerCheck a design on the customer's block while you quote, with reports under your brand.
Case study

How one of Victoria’s largest verandah and patio builders unlocked millions in sold work.

One of Victoria’s largest verandah and patio builders completes hundreds of projects a year. As more of those jobs needed extra council approvals, permits became the bottleneck on growth, cashflow and installation.

Leaving it to customers stalled jobs. A paid service got pushback. Doing it in-house for free halved the blocked work, but took two full-time staff and around $150,000 a year in outside drafting. They handed their Victorian permits to Easy Permits at $1,950 per permit, drafting and extra council applications included.

2
internal roles no longer needed
~$150K
a year in drafting costs removed
+20%
more blocked work unlocked, on top of the in-house gains
Millions
of dollars of sold work released to installation

Faster permits. Fewer stalled jobs. More verandahs to site.

White-label reports

Your brand on every compliance report.

Send customers a clear report with your logo: what they're getting, that it's likely to comply, and how the permit will be handled. It helps close the job.

YOUR LOGOCompliance report
Verandah · 6.0 × 4.0 mPrepared for the Nguyen family · Geelong VIC
Distance from the side fence · 1.2 m. Passes
Site coverage · 48%. Limit is 60%
Height near the rear boundary · Lowered 300 mm in store. Now passes
Easements and overlays · None on this block
Likely to comply. Permit handled by Easy Permits.

Hand us your next permit.

A 15-minute call on how the package fits your jobs, with a demo of the Compliance Checker.

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