Each SEQ council runs its own development application search portal:
- Brisbane City Council — PD Online (pdonline.brisbane.qld.gov.au) - Gold Coast — City Plan Online + DA Tracker - Sunshine Coast — Development Application Search via the council's planning portal - Moreton Bay — DA Online - Logan — Logan PD Hub - Ipswich — Online DA Search - Redland — DA Search via the council site
The portals work but they're slow, the search is address-by-address, and cross-referencing DAs spatially (e.g. "every DA within 500m of this address") isn't supported in any of them. They're built for compliance not discovery.
The Casa Daily approach. We ingest every DA from every SEQ council weekly, normalise them to a single schema, and expose a single spatial-aware search surface. Search by address, suburb, lot/plan, applicant, decision (approved / refused / withdrawn), or proposed use. Filter by date range, lot area, dwellings proposed, and assessment level. Every DA is geo-located so you can see what's been approved within any radius of any address — the single most useful planning research move.
For any listing you're chasing, Casa Daily automatically surfaces comparable approved DAs within 500m to anchor your feasibility against actual council decisions, not industry rules of thumb.
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