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 planning and building regulations as well as Council’s Local Laws. 

A shipping container to be used as a storage shed, habitable room, dwelling or any other use, is considered a classifiable building under the Building Act 1993, Building Regulations 2018 and National Construction Code 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.