Editorial policy

What Insights is for

Insights covers projects and industry news that touch Australian property work: planning approvals, government budgets, interest rates and costs, and housing targets. Each article answers a real question with original, sourced facts. Every page exists for the reader, and each carries facts unique to its subject.

Sources

• Facts come from official records: the NSW Planning Portal and ePlanning, government releases, budget papers and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
• Every fact shows the date of its record and links to it. Every article ends with its list of sources.
• We state what the record says and stay on the facts: no allegations, no motives, no claims about named people.
• If an article relies on a news outlet's reporting, it names the outlet in the text.
• We link out only to official sources, and every link is editorial, never paid or swapped.

How articles are written

• Articles are written like news. The first paragraph says who, what, where and when, taken from the record. The detail follows, each fact attributed to the document it comes from, with that document's date.
• The language is plain Australian English in short sentences, and every number comes from the record.
• Articles report from documents. If an article relies on anything else, such as an interview or a site visit, it says so in the text.
• Opinions, allegations and motives stay out. The "what it means" part is framed as considerations for nearby owners, builders and trades.

What locals are saying

Some articles carry a short section of local comment. We use only public posts that a person on our team has supplied by link. Each quote is 25 words or fewer and is attributed to the platform and the page or handle. Quotes carry no private individual's full name, come from public pages only (never scraped or behind a login), and are never turned into a factual claim.

How AI assistance is used and checked

• We may use AI tools to help draft text. An AI tool is never an author and never the source of a fact.
• Before an article is published, a person checks every sentence and figure line by line against the official record it cites.
• A figure that cannot be confirmed against the official record stays out. A draft that carries an unconfirmed item says so and is not published until it is resolved.
• The "what it means" part of an article is general consideration. It adds no figure of its own and makes no forecast.

Authors, approval and dates

• Bylines are real people who agree to be named. An article without a named author and reviewer is not published.
• Michael Guy Burford, Founder, Urban Pulse, is the editor and the reviewer of Insights. Every article carries his name as author and as reviewer, and he approves each article before it goes live.
• Drafts are never public: they are not served, not in the feed or the sitemap, and not linked.
• The published date and the updated date are real. The updated date changes only when the content changes.

Corrections

If you think something is wrong, tell us through the contact page or email support@urbanpulse.com.au, and say which article and which line. We check it against the official record. If it is wrong we fix it, say on the article what changed and when, and move the updated date.

Using these articles

Articles give general information drawn from official records. For a decision about a particular project or loan, speak to a qualified professional. Applications are lodged by the applicant or their planner on the NSW Planning Portal. Read the Insights hub for published articles.