I want to use shipping containers

Shipping containers are handy for moving house, building a house or a storage shed. 

There are regulations that govern the use of shipping containers on private land. These come from national and state building regulations and Council’s General Local Law. 

A shipping container to be used as a storage shed, habitable room, dwelling or any other use, will be a classifiable building under the National Construction Code and the Building Regulations 2018 and is subject to a building permit. 

A planning permit may also be required prior to a shipping container arriving at your property depending on your location, the zone of the land, any overlays apply to the land, or the proposed used of the shipping container. 

A Building Surveyor will require, at a minimum, that it be placed on approved foundations and that rainwater can be appropriately drained from its roof in order to issue a building permit. 

Council acknowledges that the use of shipping containers are not always permanent and that they can be a means of temporary storage during the construction of other permitted developments such as a dwelling.