LayeredGeo for town planners

Built for planning workflows

LayeredGeo Property Reports are designed around how town planners actually work - fast first checks across multiple addresses, concise constraint summaries for clients, and documented data sources suitable for DA submissions and planning reports. All overlay data is sourced directly from council ArcGIS services, the NSW ePlanning Portal and Vicmap Planning, and the report includes full data source references for every overlay group.

Common planning-stage uses

• Pre-lodgement site check - identify all applicable overlays before preparing a development application
• Site due diligence - overlay summary for acquisition advice or feasibility assessments
• DA submissions - attach a documented constraint summary as supporting material
• Portfolio review - check multiple sites consistently without manual council portal searches
• Client briefing - plain-language overlay summaries with development implications for each group
• Identifying technical consultants - terrain, geology, and groundwater context helps flag where a geotechnical or environmental engineer is warranted

Overlay groups covered

Each Property Report covers the planning overlay groups, including planning zone (land use category and assessment pathway), flood overlays (risk mapping, overland flow, coastal inundation, and historical extents), bushfire hazard (category and AS 3959 BAL implications), heritage (local heritage, character areas, and State Heritage Register), transport noise corridors (road and rail), vegetation overlays (native vegetation, waterway and wetland buffers, urban canopy), and environmental overlays (biodiversity, koala habitat, MSES/MLES, ecological corridors), ground hazards including acid sulfate soils, airport controls, easements, setbacks and reservations, and other state and council controls. Plus distance to the nearest bus stop and train station. Which groups are available depends on what each state publishes - see supported coverage below.

Supported coverage

QLD: Brisbane City Council, Gold Coast, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Toowoomba, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, Redland, Mackay, Townsville, Cassowary Coast, Gympie, and Mount Isa - plus state-wide QLD datasets.
NSW: State-wide via the NSW ePlanning Portal.
VIC: State-wide via Vicmap Planning, covering every Victorian planning scheme.
SA: State-wide via the Planning and Design Code, including zoning and subzones, flood, bushfire, noise, heritage and character overlays.
TAS: State-wide via the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, including zoning, flood and coastal inundation, bushfire and heritage. Bus stop and ferry terminal distances come from the state-wide Tasmanian Government timetable feed (Tasmania has no passenger rail). Transport noise corridors are not published state-wide and are not included.
ACT: Territory-wide via the ACT Territory Plan, including zoning, bushfire, aircraft noise zones, heritage and public transport. Flood overlays are not published territory-wide and are not included.

Data currency

Overlays are updated periodically from source services - typically monthly to quarterly for most councils. Each report includes the data retrieval date. Users should verify current overlay status with the relevant council or competent authority before preparing formal planning advice or lodging a development application.

Important limitation

The Property Report is a desktop review of published mapping, drawn from government-published spatial datasets. It does not replace planning judgement, statutory review, site-specific engineering advice, or formal legal interpretation of planning scheme provisions. Overlay boundaries are subject to change through planning instrument amendments.