Running an event on council land means ten or more documents, six authorities, and deadlines that start five months out. Answer plain questions about your event once. Sorted Permits works out exactly what applies, when it is due, and writes the documents with you.
Free for organisers during the pilot. Built from real issued permits, not scraped from a website.
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 →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.
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 15 items. A major festival gets 40.
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.
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.
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.
Intake portals, workflow, referral to internal teams and statutory bodies, assessment and approval. Digitised, and working well, once a complete application arrives.
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 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.
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.
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 →When an organiser learns they must have a traffic management plan by a fixed date, they need a provider now. Sorted Permits recommends credentialed local suppliers 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 →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.