For NSW council planning teams

It reads, checks and drafts. The officer decides.

PlanOS is a workbench for development assessment. It reads each application, checks it against your council's planning rules, and drafts the report, the letters and the notice. Every judgment is left to the officer.

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  • It never decides
  • Public information only
  • Hosted in Australia
Illustration. The mapped controls on one lot, each with the share of the lot it covers.
36mapped layers read for every site
154 of 154drawing values agreed in validation
37planning principles of the Land and Environment Court on file
0connections into council systems

Every conclusion has a basis, every unresolved question stays visible, and the system helps the right person resolve it.

What it does

It does three things.

01

Reads

The applications lodged with council, the documents published with them, and the public planning maps for the site.

02

Checks

Each application against your council's planning rules. The same rule gives the same result every time.

03

Drafts

A first version of the assessment report, the request for information and the determination notice. Wherever a judgment is needed, the draft is left blank for the officer.

What it does not know

Unknown is a result. It is never quietly cleared.

When PlanOS cannot establish something, it says so. The system is designed so that an unknown carries through to everything that depends on it. It does not default in the applicant's favour.

It then turns what is unknown into a short list of questions, most useful first.

  • Meets
  • Does not meet
  • Unknown
  • Not published
  • Officer judgment
Illustration with invented figures

5 checks are waiting on 1 question

Open question

What is the site area on the registered survey?

    Evidence

    Every conclusion shows its basis.

    Each value the AI reads carries the document, the page and the quote it came from, so an officer can check it against the drawing. The AI reads and quotes. The officer concludes.

    154 of 154

    In our validation against eight council officer reports, all 154 drawing values that could be cross-checked agreed. None was fabricated.

    For each application it works out

    1. The site and the instruments that apply
    2. Whether the use is permissible
    3. Whether the lodgement is complete
    4. Standards and DCP controls on the stated figures
    5. Referrals, with their statutory clocks
    6. Notification
    7. The determination pathway and panel triggers
    8. Contributions
    9. Support from similar variations
    10. Court and policy prompts
    11. Whether the stated cost is plausible
    12. Precedent and benchmarks

    Sources

    Four public sources. Nothing from inside council.

    Everything PlanOS reads is information anyone could already look up on a government website. It never connects into the council network.

    Applications

    NSW Planning Portal

    The state register of applications.

    Documents

    The council's public DA tracker

    The documents lodged with each application, as published.

    Maps

    NSW mapping services

    Boundaries, zoning, height, floor space ratio, heritage, flood, bushfire and the other mapped layers.

    Law

    Legislation and court websites

    Planning law, the Court's planning principles and current planning circulars.

    In use

    What an officer sees.

    1. 01

      Sign in

      From any current web browser.

    2. 02

      Look up a property

      Any address, with every mapped control on the lot.

    3. 03

      Review the lodgement

      Is the application complete enough to assess?

    4. 04

      Run the assessment

      Each planning rule against what was lodged.

    5. 05

      Edit the drafts

      Report, request for information and notice, exported to Word.

    It also drafts section 4.55 modification reports and keeps a list of Land and Environment Court appeals.

    For IT

    Questions an IT team asks.

    Short answers. A briefing covers each of them in detail, and anything we cannot answer on the day comes back in writing.

    Is there anything to install?

    No. PlanOS is a website. It needs a current web browser and nothing else.

    Does it connect to our systems?

    No. It reads public sources only. Nothing connects into the council network.

    Where is it hosted?

    PlanOS is hosted in Australia.

    Who can see what?

    Officers see only their own council's applications.

    Does the AI decide anything?

    No. It reads and quotes, and only when an officer asks. Every judgment is the officer's.

    Is our data used to train AI?

    No. Nothing PlanOS sends to the AI model is used to train it.

    Next step

    A three month trial on live applications.

    Month one

    Set up

    A small team of 10 to 20 officers is set up and signed in.

    Month two

    Live work

    The team uses it on live applications. Real work, not samples.

    Month three

    Review

    We review together and agree what worked and what needs fixing.

    • Council nominates one power user who can raise a request at any time.
    • Every request is acknowledged within 30 minutes.
    • Improvements are released every week.

    Briefing

    Request a briefing.

    A walkthrough of the product, then time for questions from your planning and IT teams.

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