Building Permits

This public register of building permits lists all building permits for building works issued by Melbourne Certification Group, in and outside of the City of Melbourne, and also any building works issued by Private Building Surveyors within the City of Melbourne.

​The information provided is extracted from the records held by City of Melbourne.

For a definition of the building classification type please see the attachment.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"melbourne-vic-gov-au/building-permits-r5bg-2hj8\".\"building_permits\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.