Where can I find comparable DA approvals near a property?

Comparable approvals — DAs the council has actually approved on similar lots nearby — are the strongest evidence available that your proposed development is viable. Three approaches:

1. Council planning portal - Brisbane: PD Online (pdonline.brisbane.qld.gov.au) - Gold Coast: City Plan Online + DA Tracker - Sunshine Coast: Council planning portal - Moreton Bay: DA Online - Logan: PD Hub - Ipswich: Online DA Search - Redland: DA Search

Each lets you search by address, applicant, decision date, etc. Limitations: address-by-address only, no spatial search ('within 500m'), inconsistent data quality between councils.

2. Town planner pre-purchase report A planner does this research as part of a pre-purchase site assessment ($1,500-$3,000). Thorough but slow (3-7 business days) and expensive at scale.

3. Casa Daily We ingest every SEQ council DA register weekly, normalise to a single schema, and geo-locate every record. The dashboard exposes: - Spatial search — every DA within 200m, 500m, 1km, 2km of any address. No council portal supports this. - Filter by use — Subdivision (RoL), Multiple Dwelling, Dual Occupancy, Secondary Dwelling, etc. - Filter by decision — Approved, Refused, Withdrawn, Conditioned, Under Assessment. - Decision-notice extraction — conditions and reasons for approval where the council publishes them. - Casa AI summarisation — ask 'what conditions has Brisbane approved on Coorparoo townhouses in 2024-25?' for a sourced summary.

For every saved listing, Casa Daily auto-surfaces comparable approvals within 500m — typically 5-25 records — to anchor your feasibility against actual council decisions, not industry rules of thumb.