The agencies get your official notification. The street gets a letter in the box. NoticeRadius handles the second part: every address around the firing site, a notice for each one and a report you can hand to the venue or council.
In NSW the official fireworks display notification goes to SafeWork NSW, the local council, police and fire services, each with its own lead time. SafeWork’s guidance doesn’t list residents among the parties you must notify.
Plenty of approvals add them anyway. Councils, venues and land owners often make resident notification a condition of using their ground, and they set their own distance and timing. Read the conditions on your approval before you choose a radius. Other states have their own regulators and rules.
Even when nobody asks, it’s worth doing. People with dogs, horses or livestock need a few days’ warning to bring animals in or plan around the night. A letter a week out turns a likely complaint into someone watching from the front yard.
SafeWork NSW: at least seven working days before the display. Local council: at least seven working days. Police and fire services: at least two working days.
Find your display on the NSW fireworks display register and open the tool with the pin already on the site. Firing in Queensland? Use the QLD fireworks display register.
Search the venue, or open your display from the NSW register and the pin is already placed.
Use the distance in your approval if there is one. If not, think about shell size, terrain, wind and any horse properties nearby.
Print the fireworks notice, deliver it a week out if you can, and record the drop in your report.
Every address around the firing point, grouped by street and in walking order. Download it as a spreadsheet or as Avery labels.
Display details, approval reference, a map and the street list with a signed declaration. Handy when a venue or council asks for proof.
Date, start time and duration, a plain warning about pets, horses and livestock, your licence details and a contact number. Colour or black and white.
Each notice and report carries a code that opens a verify page, so residents and councils can check it came from you.
A venue on the fringe of a regional town books a short display for a Saturday night. The council’s approval to fire from the reserve next door asks for written notice to residents within 500 metres.
Pin the reserve, set 500 metres and you’ll see the houses on the estate plus the two rural properties on the ridge, which are the ones with horses. The notice goes out the Saturday before with a line asking owners to bring horses in early. On the night the venue has the report, and nobody rings the council.
If you fire most weekends, a yearly plan covers every display. Running several crews over New Year? Business gives the whole team access.
For operators with regular displays through the year.
a year
For companies with several crews and a busy season.
a year
Firing one display this year? A job pass covers it with no subscription. Compare every plan on the pricing page.
SafeWork NSW’s guidance lists SafeWork, the council, police and fire services, not residents. Your council, venue or land owner may still require resident notice as a condition, so check your approval.
Use the distance in your conditions. Where none is set, consider the shell size, the terrain, the wind and anyone nearby with horses, livestock or a boarding kennel.
The agencies have fixed lead times. For residents, about a week ahead gives pet and horse owners time to plan, and it’s easy once the list is ready.
Yes. The tool covers every Australian state and territory. There are display registers for NSW and Queensland, each built from that state’s own notification data.
Yes. It includes the map, the address list, your approval reference and a signed declaration, plus a QR code they can scan to check it.
Need the wording as well as the addresses? Our free fireworks notice template covers what neighbours want to know, with tips that head off complaints. See all neighbour notice templates.
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