You will require this permit if you intend to conduct activities in a public place. Public places include reserves, parks, marine facilities, car parks or roads. Activities include but are not limited to:
- Amusement or entertainment for financial reward;
- Erecting cairns or memorials;
- Refuelling a vessel at a marine facility;
- Assemblies, preaching or public speaking;
- Balls, and dances;
- Bands, concerts or other musical entertainment;
- Beg, solicit, induce or collect gifts, whether of money or other item, for any purpose;
- Climbing buildings, trees, shrubs or any other structures;
- Deposit refuse, waste or noxious waste;
- Driving, parking or leaving a vehicle, except on a constructed road set aside by Council;
- Dismantling, painting, washing or repairing a vehicle unless it is necessary in order to enable the vehicle to be removed from the road;
- Parking or leaving a vehicle for the purpose of offering the vehicle for sale;
- Leaving or abandoning a watercraft;
- Fairs and fetes;
- Functions, parties or receptions;
- Marking out a track or route;
- Games, pastimes and public entertainment;
- Landing or launching an aircraft in a recreation reserve;
- Consume, possess, sell or supply liquor;
- Dropping any article or thing from an aircraft onto a recreation reserve;
- Raffles or prize contests;
- Ride or lead a horse;
- Activities with animals;
- Using skates, bicycles, skateboards or similar;
- Collect wood or timber;
- Distribute advertising or promotional activities;
- Mark, write or deface Council property; or
- Organised sporting activities, contests, competition, practice or training.
Gatherings, parties or receptions of less than 100 people do not require a permit, provided that the gathering does not:
- Amount to an exclusive use of the public reserve or part thereof;
- Interfere with a prior booking or a gathering; or
- Interfere with the use of the reserve by other members of the public.
Please contact your Council for further information.
