Three steps between you and ready to submit
Built by an event organiser who has been through it, on each council's own published requirements, and verified against real issued permits. No jargon you have to decode alone.
Start with your event →Answer plain questions
How many people, what is happening, where and when. If a question needs council-speak, we explain it in one line. That is the whole job on your side.
Get your checklist and deadlines
Every requirement that applies to your event, and none that do not, each with a due date counted back from event day. A 300-person market gets 19 items. A major festival gets 42.
Generate the documents
Risk, emergency, noise, waste and alcohol plans, notification letters and more, pre-filled from your answers in the council's own format. Review, download as Word, upload to the portal.
The whole journey, not just the council form
Event permits do not stop at the council. Sorted Permits tracks the statutory bodies most organisers only discover late: liquor licensing, EPA noise, coastal land consent, building permits for big marquees, WorkSafe for fireworks, and public transport notices with their 120-day lead times.
Councils digitised their side of the counter. We are the organiser's side.
Booking portals like Bookable and Greenlight receive applications. Nobody was preparing the person filling one out. Sorted Permits gets you ready to make a complete submission. Together, the counter works.
Receives the application
Intake portals, workflow, referral to internal teams and statutory bodies, assessment and approval. Digitised, and working well, once a complete application arrives.
Gets the organiser ready
Works out every requirement, sets honest deadlines, drafts each document in the council's format, and lines up suppliers, so the submission lands complete the first time.
The enemy was never the council. It was the maze.
The back and forth, gone
The paperwork is not what burns the weeks. It is the ping-pong: waiting on replies, being told something is missing, ringing around for quotes. Every one of these loops disappears.
Weeks of elapsed waiting becomes one afternoon of answers, then a review.
Proven on a 9,500-person festival
The gap between the council's guide and what compliance actually requires is exactly what this solves. We built the rules from our own real permits, then tested them.
Event Director, Sorrento Solstice Festival 2026
- ✓40 requirements identified, matching the real permit trail across three authorities
- ✓Caught the Parks Victoria track: its own event plan, fees and 30-day deadlines
- ✓Knew the local law liquor permit is separate from the VGCCC licence
- ✓Flagged the 48-hour foreshore rule from bump-in dates automatically
- ✓Every lead time verified against issued permits and covered by automated tests
The whole counter, both sides of it
Complete submissions, first time
Tools like Bookable digitise your side. Sorted Permits prepares the organiser's side, so applications arrive complete, in your template formats, with statutory notices already made. Fewer referral cycles, fewer last-minute crises, safer community events. Ask us about a pilot for your Shire.
Talk to us about a pilot →Be there at the moment of need
When an organiser learns they must have a traffic management plan by a fixed date, they need a provider now. Sorted Permits puts local suppliers in front of them at exactly that moment: traffic, security, first aid, toilets, staging, pyrotechnics and more. Founding listings are free for the first year.
Claim a founding listing →Planning a 2026-27 event? Join the pilot.
We are onboarding a small group of Mornington Peninsula organisers for the coming season. You get the tool free and a direct line to us. We get your feedback. Everyone gets sorted.
No credit card. No lock-in. Free for community organisers during the pilot.