Perth & surrounds · updated weekly

Building approvals, sorted by trade

Every WA council publishes its approvals. They're scattered across dozens of PDFs in a dozen formats. I collect them, sort them, and email you only the ones near you.

What you get

One email a week. Every approval in your suburbs, with the address, what was approved, the value the owner declared, and the date it was granted.

That's it. No login, no dashboard, no app to learn.

Suburb	Approved	Value	Date
Yanchep	Two storey dwelling	$726,820	23 Aug
Clarkson	Below ground fibreglass swimming pool	$42,871	23 Aug
Eglinton	Single dwelling	$513,920	22 Aug
Jindalee	Patio	$18,400	21 Aug
Quinns Rocks	Retaining wall & front fence	$21,000	20 Aug

The real list has the street address on every line — ▮▮ ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ Way, Yanchep. I've left them off this page because anyone can read it.

Where it comes from

Public building and development approval registers, published by the councils themselves. Nothing here is private, bought, or scraped from a competitor — it's the same information anyone can go and read, just collected in one place and sorted so you don't have to.

City of Wanneroo City of Stirling City of Vincent City of Perth — soon Armadale — soon

About 21,000 approvals on record so far, back to January 2024.

Why it's useful

Because the permit names the builder doing the main job, and almost never the trades that come after.

A new pool can't legally be filled without a compliant barrier — and the fencing is a separate job the owner books later.
A new house means an alfresco, paving, landscaping and fencing, usually months after the keys.
A demolition means excavation, waste removal and temporary fencing within weeks.

By the time that work gets quoted, nobody knows it's coming except the owner. The approval is public months earlier.

Who I am

I'm Brett. I build software, here in Perth.

I put this together because the data was sitting in thirty different council PDFs in a dozen different formats, and nobody had bothered to join it up. It took a while. It works now.

I'm not a marketing agency and I'm not reselling somebody else's leads.

What it costs

Nothing, at the moment. I'm working out whether it's actually useful to the people getting it before I think about charging for it.

If that changes, you'll be told before it does, not after. And you can stop it any time by replying and saying so — no form, no account to cancel.

Want it?

Email me and tell me your trade and the suburbs you work in. I'll send the next one.

brett@getageek.com.au

Or reply to whichever email brought you here.