Can your block be subdivided?

Whether the planning rules allow your block to be subdivided, and into how many lots, with the lot size test and the working shown. You also see what could stop or shape it: heritage, environment, bushfire, flood, servicing, contamination and title. Then the approval pathway, indicative costs for each step and the next step to take, with every source listed.

Then the report says so, and explains which rule or constraint stands in the way. That can be the most useful answer of all, because you find out before paying for surveys, plans and applications.

All of them: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, ACT and NT. What is published online differs between states, so the report records what was searched for your property and what could not be checked.

Your report goes into production as soon as your payment is confirmed and is in your inbox as a PDF within 1–2 hours, sent to the address you give at checkout. Please check your junk folder if it has not arrived. If anything delays your report, we will contact you.

Yes, and we recommend it. You can give a copy to your professional advisers, your lender, your family and your co-owners.

The $39 Subdivision Snapshot is a preliminary assessment: the indicative subdivision potential of your block, zoning, density and minimum lot size, measured lot dimensions, and the constraints identified across planning, heritage, environment, bushfire, flood, servicing, contamination and title. The $199 Subdivision Potential Report is the full assessment: constraints and impacts on your lot, lot yield with concept subdivision layouts, alternative development options, the approval pathway, your next steps and indicative costs, plus 5% off consulting services. Start with a Snapshot and your $39 counts toward the full report if you upgrade within 30 days.

$39 for a Snapshot or $199 for the full report is the total you pay. No GST is charged.

No. The report sets out what the planning schemes, government registers and mapping show for your property, and what it means for a subdivision. It is not legal, planning, surveying, financial or valuation advice, and it is not an approval. Think of it as the groundwork before you engage a professional: it helps you decide whether your idea is worth taking further, and tells you what to ask.

Our system was designed by an experienced consultant in heritage, environmental and planning due diligence, around the checks a consultant makes at the start of a subdivision job. For your address it searches the government registers, planning schemes and mapping, works through the rules that apply to your lot, and assembles the findings. A verification step then re-checks the findings against their sources, and a report that fails is held rather than sent. Reports are produced automatically and are not reviewed by a licensed town planner, surveyor or lawyer, which is why every source is listed so the findings can be confirmed.

The report does not include a formal title search or a review of the documents registered on your title (it checks the title matters the registers show, such as native title, and flags what to confirm on your certificate of title), a survey or surveyed measurements of the land, a site inspection, a paid contaminated sites search certificate (the report checks the contaminated sites registers, but does not order the formal search) or an environmental site assessment, a bushfire attack level assessment or flood level, confirmation of servicing from a provider, a council certificate or enquiry, a valuation, or lodging any application. Where you would need one of these, the report names it.