Pool builders, individuals and service-based businesses providing design, approval and building advice or expertise to clients are providing a ‘Professional Service’. I’m deeply passionate about the pool industry and providing a professional service to our clients, so I decided to write this blog as a reminder to the pool industry and other professional service providers of their obligations providing these professional services.

In Australia, every new construction project involving swimming pools requires approval. The approval requirements vary by State/Territory and Local Government Area. We will focus on the requirements, specifically in NSW, for lodging a Swimming Pool Approval.

We are well into an age where we have become reliant on technology. There has been a huge transformation over the past three centuries starting with the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)…