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Building Permit Activity Data

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 11/01/2026

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The Building and Plumbing Commission (BPC), formerly Victorian Building Authority (VBA), collects information from building surveyors on the number, value and type of building permits issued each month as part of its functions under the Building Act 1993.

Building Permit Activity Data provides information relating to each building permit issued in the State of Victoria and reported to the BPC/VBA during the specified period. This includes: details of the buildings built (or demolished), estimated cost of works, levy paid, date permit was issued. In addition, the data can be sliced by: region, municipality, suburb, postcode and street name.

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Field Value
Title Building Permit Activity Data
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/d397f0bc-d69b-4093-b8d5-d8daae4f73a3
Remote Last Updated 08/01/2026
Contact Point
Building and Plumbing Commission
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 01/07/2008
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Building Permit Activity Data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/building-permit-activity-data-2009