Once the Certificate of Final Inspection or Occupancy Permit has been issued by the relevant building surveyor and all works, including landscaping, are complete on the site you can apply for return of the bond.
Council officers will undertake a final inspection to determine if any Council assets were damaged during your building works.
If there is no additional damage, or if any new damage identified has been rectified to Council’s satisfaction, the bond will be returned. The bond can only be returned to the person or company who made payment.
If there is new or additional damage to Council assets, the permit holder is responsible for repair of the damage, according to Council standards and specifications. The repairs must be reinstated within 28 days. It is an offence not to reinstate the damage to the standards and within the timeframes specified by Council.
If Council needs to undertake the rectification works, the costs will be deducted from the bond and the remainder refunded. If the rectification costs exceed the bond amount, Council will invoice the permit holder to recover the additional amount.
Bond return checklist
Please ensure the following items are completed before contacting Council to request the final inspection:
- Have any temporary fences been removed?
- Has all landscaping and fence construction been completed?
- If any Council assets, including the road, footpath, kerb and channel, vehicle crossings or stormwater pit lids, were damaged during the building works, have they been reinstated to Council specifications?
- Is the footpath, vehicle crossing and kerb and channel clean and the nature strip free of any rubble, relevelled with topsoil and seed?
- Are all service authority connections in the footpath, road or nature strip reinstated to Council specifications?
- If any service authority pit lids were damaged, have they now been reinstated? Please note it is the applicant’s responsibility to contact the relevant authority to arrange repair.
Apply for return of bond
To request a final inspection by Council please email assetprotection@maroondah.vic.gov.au and provide the following information:
- property address
- Asset Protection Permit number
- name and email address of the person who has paid the Asset Protection Permit bond.
Please use the following as the email subject: 'Request for final inspection and return of Asset Protection Bond - (insert property address)'