Know what the site will take before you tie up the money.
Read the zone, the overlays and the likely approval path for each site on your list. When one's worth it, a paid plan lets you bring in the planner and the engineer, compare what they quote, and award the work straight into a project.
Check the overlays before you pay for a survey. Put the address in first and you get the zone, what the council allows, the overlays to check and the likely approval pathway. It's read from live state planning data at the moment you ask. Do it for every site on the list, keep the ones that survive, and spend the consultant money on those.
Find the constraint before the survey does
The read names the likely route, exempt, complying development or a development application, so you know early which sites need the long road. In New South Wales the mapped overlays come with it, so a heritage, bushfire or flood flag shows up before the survey does.
Where a council's controls aren't fully mapped yet, the read tells you so, and any overlay layer still to review is marked Not checked. Nothing assumed reaches your numbers.
Run the same read on each site you're weighing up. Every address gets its own page, so the board, the financier and your planner all start from the same read.
How a site moves into delivery
Read it
Zone, overlays and the likely pathway, from the address.
Bring people in
On a paid plan, post the scope on Marketplace for the planner, architect or engineer you need.
Compare
Line the quotes up, and ask each contractor for the licence, insurance and ABN recorded on their profile.
Lodge
On Planning Pro, Planning builds your planning pack for you to review and lodge, including a list of the documents to attach, shaped by the mapped overlays on the site (for NSW, separate lists for a development application and a complying development certificate), naming any layer we could not check and marking each document attached or not started. You lodge it, or bring in a town planner through Marketplace to help.
Award and deliver
Award the contractor and the work is set up in Project Management, ready for the programme and the first claim.
The right people, and quotes you can compare
On any paid plan, post the scope on Marketplace and consultants and contractors quote on it. Compare the bids side by side, then award. Each business records its licence, insurance and ABN on its profile. Urban Pulse doesn’t check them with the issuer yet, so ask for them and check them before you award.
Move into delivery on the same project
Awarding a quote sets the work up in Project Management. From there the programme, the milestones, variations as they're raised, defects, RFIs, the daily log and status reports sit on the project for the life of the job. When the financier or a JV partner asks how it's going, the record is already there.
Claims and retention are tracked there too: the state of each claim, and every retention release with the person who approved it.
The same scheme, on facts you can show a board
A survey paid for on a site nobody had read.
The zone, the overlays and the likely pathway read before you commit.
Consultant fees compared across five email threads.
Quotes lined up on the job, and you ask each contractor for their licence, insurance and ABN before you award.
A delivery record rebuilt from inboxes for the financier.
The programme, claims and variations on the project as they happen.
What developers ask
Can I check a site before I buy it?
Yes. Put the address in and you get the zone and zone name, what the council allows there, the overlays to check and the likely approval pathway, free and with no account.
Does every state read the same way?
Seven: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT. A New South Wales site gives the fullest read, since it's the only state where the mapped overlays are pulled for you. Queensland sites come back against the councils' own rules, with zoning covered for five Queensland councils.
Who lodges the planning application?
You lodge it, and you stay the applicant. On Planning Pro, Planning builds your planning pack for you to review and lodge, including a list of the documents to attach, shaped by the mapped overlays on the site (for NSW, separate lists for a development application and a complying development certificate), naming any layer we could not check and marking each document attached or not started. If you'd like help, bring in a town planner through Marketplace.
How do contractors get engaged?
On a paid plan, post the scope on Marketplace. Consultants and trades set their service areas and the work they take on. Compare the bids, ask the contractor you like for their licence, insurance and ABN and check them, then award, and the work is set up in Project Management.
Read the next site first.
Zone, overlays and the likely pathway on every site on your list, before the consultant money goes out. Test a site free now, and leave your work email to hear when you can join.
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Urban Pulse is an Australian construction platform: check what a site allows, build the planning pack, get quotes from trades, send contracts and reports for signing, and run the build. Payments & Finance is coming soon.