A Wollongong planning certificate costs $185.00 with the extra information, and land stability is listed only if the council holds any

What the council sells

A planning certificate is a council document about a piece of land. Wollongong's page says the main type is the 10.7 (1) and (5) certificate, which is the basic certificate combined with extra information about your property if it is available. The council's fee for it is $185.00 per parcel of land, and its fees portal shows that figure under a 2026/27 heading with no GST added on top.

You can apply for the basic certificate alone. Applying for the extra information is a second request on the same application, and the page says it will give you the extra information if it is available.

What the extra information may include

The council's list runs to proposed draft development control plans, land stability, flood and drainage, and acid sulfate soils, among other items. A list of what the council may add is not a statement about any lot. The page does not say which properties have a land stability entry, or what an entry says when there is one.

What the certificate cannot tell you

Read literally, the page promises nothing about land stability on any particular block. If the council holds nothing for a parcel, the certificate will be silent, and silence is not the same as a clear result. If it does hold something, the page does not describe it. So the certificate is a way to find out what the council will put in writing about your land, and it is not a hazard assessment.

Where this meets a footing repair

CSIRO's footing guide says cracking caused by local shear or erosion usually keeps developing until its cause is remedied. That is a reason to understand your ground before you sign for work, and a document about the land is one place to begin. It is useful whether or not the job needs consent, which is a question the council's plan does not settle for underpinning as such.

The questions it prompts are ordinary ones. Has the provider seen the certificate? Does anything in it, such as a flood or acid sulfate entry, change the method or the order of work? And who will act on it if it does? This site cannot answer them, because it does none of the work.

What could change

The fee is the council's 2026/27 figure as read on 24 September 2026, and the council's page was last modified on 20 July 2026. Fees are reset each year, and the council's own page is the place to check before you apply.