Test it before you buy. Deliver it after.
Test a site in Properties before you commit, get the planning pack ready, award contractors in Marketplace, then deliver in Project Management.
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A site either stacks up or it does not, and you want that answer before you commit, not after. Properties reads the address and gives you the zone, what the council allows, every overlay over the site and the likely approval pathway, in plain English rather than planning codes. If it stacks, Planning assembles the pack; you lodge it on the NSW Planning Portal yourself, because Urban Pulse does not lodge and does not promise an approval. Then Marketplace is where you invite contractors and award the work, and Project Management carries the programme, variations, defects and the record.
Urban Pulse is an Australian construction platform: site intelligence, town planning, contractor marketplace, Send & Sign, and project management in one workspace.
Test the site before you commit
Feasibility falls over on the things nobody checked. Properties reads the address against live state planning services and gives you the zone and zone name, what the council allows there, every overlay sitting over the site, and the likely approval pathway, read at the time you ask rather than from a cached copy.
An address we cannot match to a property comes back empty: no zone, no default figure standing in for one. Where the address matches but your council's own controls are not mapped, the numbers are the state scheme's default and carry that label rather than your council's schedule. Any overlay layer we did not read is listed as Not checked, and a site with Not checked against it has not been cleared.
Where the controls are mapped you get the envelope to test against: 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 scheme into a full DA. Where a board or a financier wants that in writing, a Preliminary Planning Investigation is the written read of the site.
It is site intelligence rather than a feasibility: no price estimate and no return figure, and none of it is planning advice.
Get the pack ready, and lodge it yourself
Planning assembles the development application pack from what you and your consultants supply and returns it as a ready-to-lodge PDF. Lodgement stays with you: you lodge on the NSW Planning Portal, record the lodgement and mark it as lodged in Urban Pulse so the project carries its own status.
The platform never lodges on your behalf and never promises an approval outcome. That distinction matters on a page a financier or a joint venture partner might read, so it is stated rather than implied.
Award the work without an open bidding board
Marketplace is invitation-only. You invite the contractors you want on the project, they quote, you compare and you award. Nothing is broadcast, no open board exists, and the field is the one you chose.
Licence, insurance and ABN are recorded against each contractor's profile so procurement can read them beside the number. Recorded is not verified, so the record shortens diligence rather than substituting for it, and your own checks still stand. Free covers a stub profile, three quotes a month, and unlimited quotes on jobs you are invited to.
Run delivery on a record that holds
Once the work is awarded, Project Management carries the programme and the milestones, the variations as they are raised, the defects, the RFIs, the daily log and the status reports, on one project record.
Claims and retention are modelled here, the state of a claim, what is held, when it releases, and none of it moves money. Any release is authorised by a person.
From a hunch to a tested site
A scheme is only as good as the site it sits on and the record it is delivered against. Both live in one place.
Test a site from the address
The zone, what the council allows, the overlays we read and the likely approval pathway, read at the moment you ask.
The envelope to test against
Where the controls are mapped: maximum height and storeys, setbacks, site coverage, garden area and car parking.
A pack you lodge yourself
Planning assembles the development application pack as a ready-to-lodge PDF. You lodge it on the NSW Planning Portal and record it.
Contractors you invited
Marketplace is invitation only. You invite the contractors you want, they quote, you compare and you award.
Credentials on the record
Licence, insurance and ABN are recorded against each profile. Recorded is not verified, so procurement still does its own checks.
Delivery on one record
Programme, variations, defects, RFIs and the daily log sit on the same project record for the life of the job.
Test it, approve it, award it, deliver it
Test the address
Properties returns the zone, the overlays we read and the likely approval pathway before you commit to the site.
Take the written read
A Preliminary Planning Investigation puts the read in writing for a board or a financier. It is indicative, not an approval.
Assemble the pack
Planning produces the development application pack as a ready-to-lodge PDF from what you and your consultants supply.
Lodge and record it
You lodge on the NSW Planning Portal, then record the lodgement so the project carries its own status.
Award and deliver
Invite contractors in Marketplace, award the work, and run delivery on one project record in Project Management.
The same scheme, on facts you can show a board
A feasibility built on a zone somebody remembered.
The zone, the overlays we read and the likely pathway, from live state planning data.
An open tender that brings in a field you did not choose.
Invitations only, so the field is the contractors you asked.
A programme in one tool, variations in a chat and defects in a spreadsheet.
One project record carrying the programme, the variations, the defects and the RFIs.
What developers ask
Can I check a site before I buy it?
Yes. Enter the address in Properties and you get the zone and zone name, what the council allows there, the overlays we read and the likely approval pathway. An address we cannot match to a property comes back empty: no zone, and no default figure standing in for one, so no assumed zone ever reaches your numbers.
How far does the site read go?
Where the controls are mapped it runs to the envelope: height, storeys, setbacks, site coverage, garden area and parking, with Path Advisor naming the likely route and what would push it to a full DA. Where your council's controls are not mapped, the figures are the state default and labelled as that.
Which states can I test a site in?
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 is the only state where the mapped overlays are pulled for you. Queensland sites come back against the councils' own rules. The Northern Territory is not live.
Does Urban Pulse lodge with the council?
No. Planning assembles the development application pack and gives it to you as a ready-to-lodge PDF. You lodge it on the NSW Planning Portal, record the lodgement and mark it as lodged, so the project carries its own status. No approval outcome is promised at any point.
How do contractors get engaged?
Through Marketplace, by invitation: you invite the contractors you want, they quote, you compare and you award. Nothing goes to an open board. Licence, insurance and ABN are recorded against each profile so procurement can read them beside the number, and your own diligence still applies.
People also ask
How do you check whether a site stacks up before buying it?
Urban Pulse reads the address in Properties and returns the zone and zone name, what the council allows, the overlays it read and the likely approval pathway, plus the envelope where the controls are mapped: height, storeys, setbacks, site coverage, garden area and parking. It is site intelligence, not a valuation: no price estimate and no return figure.
Does Urban Pulse value a property?
No. Urban Pulse does not value property and produces no price estimate and no return figure. What it produces is the site's published planning position in plain English, a development application pack the customer lodges, invited quoting through Marketplace, and the delivery record in Project Management. Valuation stays with a valuer.
What happens after a development application pack is assembled?
The customer downloads the ready-to-lodge pack as a PDF, lodges it on the NSW Planning Portal and records the lodgement in Urban Pulse. From there, contractors are invited to quote in Marketplace and the awarded job is run in Project Management. Urban Pulse never lodges and never promises an approval.
Test it first. Then deliver it.
One work email is all we take. No account is created and no plan is started, and we will let you know when you can test a site, get the pack ready and award the work.
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