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Accommodation approval - Townsville City Council - Queensland

Description

You will need this approval to establish a shared facility or short-term accommodation business.

Shared facility accommodation refers to guests sharing one or more of the following:

  • dormitories or bedrooms
  • toilets, bathrooms or showers
  • laundries
  • cooking and dining facilities
  • recreation facilities.

Short-term accommodation businesses can include:

  • hotels, motels or motor inns
  • backpacker hostels
  • bed and breakfasts
  • boarding houses
  • guest houses
  • retirement villages or institutions that are not subject to government funding programs.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

You may also need to obtain development approval if you are conducting the following activities:

  • starting a new accommodation business
  • changing the existing activity (e.g. from private residence to rental accommodation)
  • re-establishing accommodation that was abandoned
  • changing the intensity of the accommodation (e.g. adding extra rooms)
  • carrying out building work
  • carrying out plumbing or drainage work.

Ongoing eligibility requirements

Your approval may be issued with conditions that require you to:

  • limit the number of persons for whom you may provide accommodation
  • carry out modifications or other building work related to the premises within a certain period
  • regularly maintain the premises
  • provide and maintain facilities, furniture and equipment
  • regularly clean the premises
  • regularly provide clean linen and towels, if relevant to your accommodation
  • provide services of specific kinds for the persons using your accommodation
  • reside or have a council or local authority approved representative reside on the premises
  • keep specified records.

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All -

Additional fees may apply, please contact your council for information on fees to be submitted.
Apply Application All $594.00

Fit-out application. Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All $343.50

New owner application. Fees for 2025-26
Renew Renewal All $321.50

Fees for 2025-26

Forms

Application process

Apply

You will need to include the following items with your application:

  • a plan of the premises
  • details of any shared accommodation facilities
  • other information and materials required by the council or local authority.

Administering agency

Townsville City Council

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.