NSW DA Feasibility Report

Planning Insight is the Tier 2 AI product — instant, $39, gives you the planning controls on a property in plain English with chatbot Q&A. The DA Feasibility Report is the Tier 3 professional report — $499+, deeper analysis with a full DCP compliance table, Cl 4.6 framework, comparable NSWLEC decisions, BASIX/contributions/heritage flags, and a planner's pre-lodgement opinion. Use Insight for an instant read; use the Feasibility Report when you're committing serious money to a project.

Property address. A description of the proposal (single dwelling, dual occ, RFB, mixed-use, change of use). Where you have them, the architectural plans (we work from concept drawings; you don't need full DA-grade plans). Where the property is heritage-listed or in a Heritage Conservation Area, the heritage inventory sheet helps but isn't essential — we pull it.

Not on its own — the DA Feasibility Report is a pre-lodgement planning analysis, not the Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE) or the Application-Grade Planning Report. It's the document you take to your architect, your planner, or your council pre-DA meeting to set the design envelope and the DA strategy. The Application-Grade Planning Report ($990) is the submittable document — see /nsw/planning-report-pro.

Most reports are delivered within 3–5 business days. Complex Cl 4.6 variations, large RFB proposals with multiple SEPPs, or HCA sites with heritage layers can take up to 7 business days. We confirm a timeline when you request a quote.

Yes. The report uses the LEP and DCP for the relevant council. Where a council has a draft amendment in exhibition or recently adopted that may bear on the proposal (e.g. a recent C-amendment to a heritage study), we flag it — particularly relevant under the s.4.15 'seriously entertained' framework.

It provides the framework — the five Wehbe questions structured, the public benefit / environmental planning grounds identified, and the variation quantum calculated. It does not draft the Cl 4.6 written submission itself — that's a separate piece of work, usually by the planner managing the DA. Some clients commission it as an add-on alongside the Application-Grade Planning Report.

Both are covered. For a heritage item (Schedule 5 listing on the LEP), the report includes the statement of significance, the contributory features identified, and an impact assessment framework. For HCA sites, the Helou v Strathfield six-question test is structured into the report — particularly important for demolition or substantial alteration of a contributory item, after 26 Salisbury Pty Ltd [2024] NSWLEC 1119.

Yes. The DA Feasibility Report is designed as a pre-lodgement tool; the Application-Grade Planning Report ($990) is the submittable Statement of Environmental Effects-style document for lodgement with a DA. Customers who buy the Feasibility Report and then commission the Application-Grade Report get the analysis carried forward — saves the rework.

Recent (last 3-4 years) Class 1 merit appeal decisions from the Land and Environment Court of NSW, filtered for the same suburb, same zone, same proposal type. Each cited decision gets a one-paragraph synthesis: the killer issue, the determinative finding, and the URL on lec.nsw.gov.au or austlii.edu.au. The selection isn't legal advice; it's case-study research a planner would normally do manually before a serious DA strategy session.

A pre-lodgement planning analysis from a NSW consultancy typically costs $2,000–$5,000 depending on site complexity. The DA Feasibility Report covers the same scope of analysis at $499 because it's AI-generated and structured. For high-value sites where the design strategy needs to be defended at a council pre-DA meeting or against a refusal recommendation, the Application-Grade Planning Report ($990) is the next step — still a fraction of consultancy cost.