Part of Our Service
Development Feasibility Reports
Feasibility reporting is the first stage of our development management service. Each report answers one of the three questions every project must clear — what the Code allows, what the market rewards, whether the numbers hold — with its sources stated. Start with the report; continue with CPM when you are ready to proceed.
Choose your report
Four reports, three questions — ordered the way a project should ask them. Each is scoped to your site and goals: preview a demo, then send an enquiry and we will confirm scope and fees with you directly.
Planning feasibility analysis
The first question: what will the Code let this land carry? Zone, overlays and pathway read for your parcel — and what the register around you actually approves.
What's Included
- Planning pathway notes
- Controls/overlays summary
- High-level constraints & risks
- Submission checklist outline
Development layout & build analysis
The second question: what should be built here? Layout, yield and massing options tested against the zone and the budget — choose the tier that matches the depth you need.
What's Included
- Site summary
- Indicative layout option
- Key build assumptions
- High-level feasibility notes
Project design concept report
Design direction once the scheme is worth drawing: concept diagrams, massing and character, anchored to the configuration the market rewards.
What's Included
- Concept-level design diagrams
- Space planning notes
- Indicative massing options
- High-level materials/character notes
- Key assumptions
Property investment analysis report
The third question: does it stack up? Costs, returns and sensitivity in the shape a lender asks for — before you commit capital.
What's Included
- Market snapshot
- Income/expense assumptions
- Indicative returns summary
- Sensitivity notes
- Key risks
The Evidence Base
Our timing assumptions are not guesses
The approval durations in a CPM feasibility report are grounded in research we co-authored: an analysis of 20,000+ South Australian planning consent applications identifying which workflow triggers actually extend a timeline. The paper's own advice to developers is to price the downside rather than the median — which is how we build these reports.
SA planning consent applications analysed
Residential subdivision consent applications lodged through PlanSA between January 2022 and June 2025.
Adelaide metropolitan councils covered
Proportionally sampled across all 18 metropolitan councils, so council-level variation is measurable.
Typical land division, lodgement to new titles
The council decision itself takes only 30–60 business days of that; conditions, works and title clearances take the rest. Sequenced in parallel, a division lands at the short end. Range per Land Services SA and SA industry guidance.
Source: Australian Residential Construction Institute (RESI), Australia Housing Market White Paper 2026. Chapter 2 draws on original research by Percy Zhang, Dr Ruidong Chang, Dr Joy Fang, Dr William Jiang — “Unlocking the Building Pipeline in a Housing Crisis: Data Mining South Australia’s Planning Approval Processes” — recipient of the Best Paper Award, 48th AUBEA International Conference. Used with permission.