NSW Application-Grade Planning Report

No. The Application-Grade Planning Report is a B2B tool for qualified town planners, architects with in-house planning, and conveyancers managing complex commercial transactions. We do not sell it to homeowners or owner-builders lodging their own DA. Consumers should use our Tier 2 Planning Insight ($39) or, for serious due diligence, the Tier 3 DA Feasibility Report ($499).

The report does in 30 minutes what would typically take a NSW town planner 8–12 hours to draft from scratch — full LEP/DCP/SEPP analysis, Cl 4.6 framework, comparable NSWLEC decisions, heritage analysis where applicable. At a typical planner rate of $200–$350/hour, the time saving is $1,600–$4,200 per report. $990 reflects the value of that time, not the marginal compute cost.

Three things, primarily. (1) Professional judgment — review the AI analysis, confirm the framework matches what the planner would actually argue, refine the conclusions. (2) Clause 4.6 narrative — the AI structures the Wehbe framework; the planner writes the substantive public benefit and environmental planning grounds argument. (3) Sign-off — the report is signed off by the qualified planner who's professionally accountable.

Yes. White-label PDF output is included — your firm name, logo, contact details on the cover and footer. The report reads as your firm's work product, because after your review and refinement, it is.

AI generation: ~30 minutes. Delivery: typically within 1 business day. Your review and refinement: depends on the proposal complexity and your firm's process — typical reports we hear about take a planner 1–2 hours of refinement vs 8–12 hours of fresh drafting.

The AI extracts directly from the official LEP, DCP and SEPP texts current at the date of generation. Every cited clause is hyperlinked to its source. Where the proposal involves a recent amendment, draft amendment, or planning proposal in exhibition, that's flagged for the planner's review. The AI is good at exhaustive extraction; the planner provides the qualitative judgment the AI can't.

It builds the framework. The Wehbe five-question structure, the quantum and percentage variation, the comparable precedents from NSWLEC, the public benefit framing prompts. It does not write the substantive professional argument — that's the planner's work product and remains so. We've structured it deliberately this way: the AI scaffold + the planner's narrative is the right division of labour.

The report is designed for DA lodgement, not for appeal evidence. For an LEC Class 1 merit appeal, a qualified town planner needs to prepare a statement of evidence in chief, expert reports, and a joint expert report under the LEC's Practice Note. Use the Application-Grade Report as the analytical foundation, but the appeal documentation is professional work requiring direct engagement.

No — it accelerates them. The AI does the documentary scaffolding (which is the time-consuming, undifferentiated part of planning work) and frees the planner to focus on the professional judgment, the design strategy, and the council engagement (which is the high-value part). Firms that have started using AI for the scaffolding part are processing 3–4× more DAs with the same headcount.

The DA Feasibility Report is a pre-lodgement analysis for the project owner — what's buildable, what would need to change, what the DA pathway looks like. The Application-Grade Planning Report is the document the planner uses to actually lodge the DA — SEE-shaped, professional opinion, sign-off ready. Many clients commission the Feasibility at pre-purchase / pre-design, then upgrade to Application-Grade at lodgement. We carry the analysis forward so you don't pay twice for the same research.