Answers 01 · Planning feasibility — approvable
Planning feasibility analysis
Can this site be developed, and where will it get stuck?
The problem
Can this site be developed, and where will it get stuck?
Whether a site can be developed, and what it will cost to get there, is decided long before a builder is appointed. It is decided by the zone, by the overlays sitting across the title, and by which assessment pathway those two things push the application onto.
Most planning checks stop at naming the overlays. A name is not a consequence. Bushfire, flooding, a regulated tree, a heritage listing — each one implies a specific referral body, a specific report to commission, and a specific risk of being pushed off the Deemed-to-Satisfy pathway into a discretionary judgement that varies by council.
Knowing that before you buy, and knowing it after you have settled, are two different projects.
How it is produced
How this report is produced
We translate every overlay on your site into its practical consequences — which referral agency, which report, whether it pushes you off the Deemed-to-Satisfy pathway, whether it triggers public notification.
Read the title and the zone
We establish what the current Planning & Design Code permits on this parcel, and which of the zone's policies actually bite on a proposal of your type.
Translate every overlay into a consequence
Overlay by overlay: which referral agency it brings in, which technical report it demands, whether it forces a Performance Assessed pathway, and whether it triggers public notification.
Derive the pathway and the notification category
The pathway and the notification category are conclusions, not inputs. We show the reasoning that produced them so you can test it with your own planner.
Register what the site itself shows
Site photographs, categorised and dated, alongside the opportunities, constraints, actions and assumptions the visit produced.
What arrives
Inside the report
Zone and overlay consequence analysis
One entry per overlay on your title, each carrying its risk level, its practical effect on the application, and the evidence it will demand.
Assessment pathway and notification category
The derived pathway, the notification category it implies, and the reasoning behind both.
Referral agencies and document checklist
Who has to be consulted, and what has to exist before lodgement is worth attempting.
Site evidence register
Photographs with category, date and note — the record that makes a later discussion with the assessing authority checkable.
Development prompts
Opportunities, constraints, actions and assumptions, each weighted, so the next decision is obvious.
What it will not claim
The boundary, stated
Overlays outside our verified catalogue are marked “not derived” — we never invent an interpretation.
Who needs it
When this report earns its keep
Looking at a site
Know what it can do before you buy — the wrong site is the most expensive mistake.
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Before you enquire
Questions we get asked about this report
Is this the same as a council pre-lodgement meeting?
No, and it is best done before one. A pre-lodgement conversation is more productive when you already know which overlays matter, which referrals are coming, and which questions are worth the meeting's time.
What happens if an overlay is not in your catalogue?
It is marked “not derived” and named as an open question. We would rather hand you a gap you can close than an interpretation we invented.
Can this report get my application approved?
No report can. This is a professional assessment of the pathway and the risks under the current Code; consent is the planning authority's decision.
Enquire about the planning feasibility analysis
Every report is scoped to your site. Tell us the address and what you are deciding, and we will confirm scope and fees before anything starts — including if a different report should come first.