Development Assessment Rules

The Development Assessment (DA) Rules explain how development applications including applications for State facilitated development in Queensland must be lodged, assessed and decided. The DA Rules also outline how public notification is required to be undertaken.

Find out more about the development assessment process and State facilitated development assessment process under the DA Rules.

Versions of the DA Rules made and amended are listed below. The table states when each version was published by the Chief Executive of the Planning Act 2016, and when it took effect.

Current DA Rules	Date published	Date commenced
Development Assessment Rules – version 2.0 ( 6.0 MB) The amendments made to the previous version of the DA Rules, includes: establishes the assessment, decision and public notification processes for development applications for State facilitated development modernises the requirements for publishing a public notice other operational and editorial amendments to facilitate improvements within the development assessment framework. Read  a summary of the amendments made to version 1.3 of the DA Rules ( 969.8 KB). View a copy of the public notice ( 139.4 KB).	22 July 2024	22 July 2024

Superseded DA Rules	Date published	Date commenced
Development Assessment Rules – version 1.3 Read a summary of the amendments made to version 1.2 of the DA Rules Read about the amendments to the DA Rules to change public notification.	2 September 2020	11 September 2020
Development Assessment Rules – version 1.2 Read a summary of the amendments made to version 1.1 of the DA Rules.	11 November 2019	6 December 2019
Development Assessment Rules - version 1.1 Read a summary of the amendments made to version 1 of the DA Rules.	4 August 2017	11 August 2017
Development Assessment Rules	17 March 2017	3 July 2017