Start Designing with a Clear Planning Brief
You know how to read a planning scheme. But your time is better spent designing than researching every zone schedule, overlay requirement, and ResCode standard for a new site. Let us do the planning legwork so you can focus on the architecture.
Planning research and analysis tailored to your client's project brief.
Everything You Need Before You Start Drawing
Our assessments give you a comprehensive planning brief — not a data dump you need to interpret yourself
Zone Analysis
What the zone allows for your client's proposal. Use rights, building height, setbacks, site coverage, permeability — the parameters that shape your design.
Overlay Requirements
Which overlays apply and what they actually require for this project. Heritage controls, design guidelines, vegetation protection, flooding — assessed against the brief.
ResCode Assessment
Key Clause 54/55/56 standards for the site: setbacks, overlooking, overshadowing, private open space, car parking. The numbers you need to start sketching.
Title Restrictions
Easements, covenants, restrictions, and Section 173 agreements that affect the building envelope. Full title search included in professional assessments.
Particular Provisions
Car parking rates (Cl 52.06), native vegetation (Cl 52.17), land adjacent to a Transport Zone, licensed premises, signage — the provisions that often catch projects out.
Design Recommendations
Where the planning scheme gives you room to move, where it doesn't, and what council is likely to focus on in their assessment.
Why Not Just Look It Up Yourself?
You could. But consider the time cost:
DIY Planning Research
- -Download the planning scheme from Planning Schemes Online
- -Read through the zone schedule (10+ pages)
- -Check every overlay and read each schedule
- -Order and review the certificate of title
- -Review registered covenants and restrictions
- -Check particular provisions for car parking, signage, etc.
- -Cross-reference everything against the project brief
2-4 hours of your time per site
Our Planning Assessment
- Tell us the address and the project brief
- We do the research and interpretation
- Receive a comprehensive planning brief
- Every control assessed against your specific project
- Title search included
- Professional planner reviewed
- Ready to brief your design team
From $399 — less than an hour of your billable time
Just Need a Quick Check?
Our AI Planning Report ($39) gives you an automated analysis of zones, overlays, and key controls in minutes. Not as comprehensive as a professional assessment, but perfect for initial feasibility or when you need a fast answer.
Spend Your Time Designing, Not Researching
We handle the planning analysis. You handle the architecture. A $399 assessment covers everything you need to start designing with confidence.
Order a Planning Assessment