Read the site before you write a word.
Read the site in Properties, assemble the planning pack your client lodges, quote the jobs you are invited to, and run defects in Project Management.
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Half a day gone before you've written a sentence. Find the LEP, find the DCP, screenshot a council map viewer that won't print properly, then start the actual assessment. Planners, engineers and surveyors can put the address into Properties instead and read the zone, what the council allows, the overlays and the likely approval pathway. Every figure lifted from the state scheme is labelled as that, so you know which ones still want the council's own schedule checked. That check is yours. The judgement too. Planning assembles the pack and your client lodges it on the NSW Planning Portal, because we don't lodge and we never promise an approval. Work reaches you by invitation, not off a lead feed.
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Start the assessment with the site already read
There's a set of facts about an address that shouldn't cost you an afternoon. Properties reads live state planning services and returns the zone and zone name, what the council allows there, the overlays that apply and the likely approval pathway. It's read at the moment you ask, not pulled from a copy somebody saved last year.
Where we can't match the address to a property, Properties returns nothing. No zone, and nothing defaulted in to fill the space. Where it matches but your council's own controls aren't mapped, the figures are the state scheme's default, labelled as that rather than as your council's schedule. An overlay layer we didn't read is listed as Not checked. Not checked is not an all-clear you can pass on to a client.
The read runs in seven states: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT. New South Wales goes furthest, because it's the only one where we pull the mapped overlays for you. In Queensland we hold the councils' own rules, so the figures are your council's rather than the state default. The Northern Territory is not live.
Where the controls are mapped, the envelope comes with it: maximum height, maximum storeys, front, side and rear setbacks, maximum site coverage, minimum garden area and car parking. Path Advisor names the likely route, complying development, a development application, or exempt, and what would push a proposal to a full DA. When a client wants that written up rather than read off a screen, it becomes a Preliminary Planning Investigation.
We don't reproduce your council's Development Control Plan. Where a setback is a state-scheme default we say so, and confirming the council's own schedule stays your call.
Quote the work a client asked you for
Marketplace has no directory to buy into and no board to watch. A customer invites you, you quote, they award. That's the whole mechanism.
Your licence, insurance and ABN sit on your profile, so a client reads them beside your fee instead of chasing them after the award. Recorded isn't verified, and they still make their own checks. Free covers a stub profile and three quotes a month, and a job you were invited to never touches that count.
Assemble the pack your client lodges
Planning takes what you and your client supply and produces the development application pack as a ready-to-lodge PDF. Lodgement stays with the customer. They lodge on the NSW Planning Portal, mark it as lodged here, and the job carries that status from then on.
Urban Pulse doesn't lodge on anyone's behalf and doesn't promise an approval outcome. That line matters more to you than it does to us. Your name is on the judgement, and the assembly is what comes off your desk.
Stay on the job after the pack goes in
Once a job's awarded, Project Management holds the defects, the RFIs, the variations as they're raised, the programme and the status reports, on one job record. Dates get written down before anybody disputes them.
Claims and retention are modelled here: the state of a claim, what's held, when it releases. None of it moves money, and any release is authorised by a person.
From an afternoon of PDFs to the facts
Judgement is what a client pays you for. The assembly around it is the part we take off your desk.
Site data before you write
Properties returns the zone, what the council allows, the overlays we read and the likely approval pathway, read at the moment you ask.
One ready-to-lodge pack
Planning assembles the development application pack from what you and your client supply, as a PDF your client lodges on the NSW Planning Portal.
Labels you can cite
A figure from the state scheme default is labelled as that, and an overlay layer we didn't read is listed as Not checked.
Work by invitation
A customer invites you to quote, you price it, they award. There is no directory to buy into and no board to watch.
Reports signed on a link
Send a report, a fee proposal or a variation. Your client opens a private link, reads it and signs on the same page.
Defects and RFIs on the record
Project Management holds the defects, the RFIs, the variations and the status reports on one job record.
Five steps, and two of them are yours
Read the site
Properties returns the zone, the overlays we read and the likely approval pathway for the address, from live state planning data.
Add the judgement
The labels on screen tell you which figures still want the council schedule checked. That check, and the advice, stay yours.
Assemble the pack
Planning produces the development application pack as a ready-to-lodge PDF from what you and your client supply.
Your client lodges
The customer lodges on the NSW Planning Portal and records the lodgement, so the job carries its status.
Stay on the job
Project Management holds the defects, the RFIs, the variations and the status reports while the build runs.
The same assessment, without the assembly
An afternoon assembling facts about an address before the assessment starts.
The zone, the overlays we read and the likely pathway in front of you at the start.
A state default quoted in a report as though it were the council schedule.
State-scheme figures labelled as state-scheme figures, so the check is yours to make.
Paying for a directory entry and chasing leads sold to five others.
Quoting only the jobs a customer invited you to price.
What consultants ask
What does Properties give me for an address?
The zone and zone name, what the council allows on the site, the overlays we read and the likely approval pathway, read at the moment you ask rather than from a stored copy. Where the controls are mapped, the envelope comes with it: height, storeys, setbacks, site coverage, garden area and parking.
Can I cite this in a planning report?
Cite it as the state's published position on the day you read it. Anything labelled as the state scheme's default wants checking against the council's own schedule before it carries your name, and any layer listed as Not checked is still yours to check. We don't reproduce the Development Control Plan.
Which states can I work across?
Seven, and they don't all read the same. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT are live. Mapped overlays are pulled for you in New South Wales only. Queensland answers come from the councils' own rules rather than the state default. The Northern Territory is not live.
Who lodges the application, me or my client?
Your client lodges, on the NSW Planning Portal, and marks it as lodged so the job carries its status. Planning assembles the pack and produces it as a ready-to-lodge PDF. Urban Pulse lodges nothing on anyone's behalf and promises no approval outcome at any point.
How does work reach me here?
By invitation. A customer invites you to quote, you price it, they award. There's no directory entry to buy and no board to watch. Your licence, insurance and ABN are recorded on your profile so a client can read them beside your fee, and they still make their own checks.
People also ask
Where does Urban Pulse get its planning data from?
Urban Pulse reads live state planning services at the moment you ask, rather than serving a stored copy, and returns the zone and zone name, what the council allows, the overlays it read and the likely approval pathway. Figures that come from the state scheme default are labelled as that, and layers it did not read are listed as Not checked.
Is Urban Pulse planning advice?
No. Urban Pulse returns site information drawn from published planning data, and Planning assembles a development application pack from what the client and their consultants supply. Judgement about what will be approved stays with the planner, the consultant and the council. A Preliminary Planning Investigation is indicative and should be confirmed with a registered planner.
Does Urban Pulse reproduce a council's Development Control Plan?
No. Urban Pulse does not reproduce a council's Development Control Plan. Where a setback or a height figure comes from the state scheme's default rather than the council's own schedule, it is labelled that way on screen, and confirming the council's schedule remains the consultant's call.
Put the address in and start there.
One work email, and that's the lot. Nothing is created at our end and no plan starts. We'll let you know when you can read a site, assemble a pack and quote the work you're invited to.
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