The planning controls for any NSW site, cited to the clause
Type an address and get the zone, height limit, floor space ratio, minimum lot size, setbacks, heritage, flood and bushfire controls that apply — each cited to the clause it came from. It is the desktop-analysis step you would otherwise do by opening the LEP and the DCP and reading.
Free for students. No account, no password, nothing to install.
Site analysis for a feasibility
The controls that bound what can be built — zone, height, FSR, minimum lot size, setbacks — for a real address, in one place.
Every number has a citation
Each control names the instrument and clause it came from, so you can follow it to the source and cite the source in your own work.
Hazard and overlay layers
Flood, bushfire, heritage and the other mapped overlays that apply to the site, read from the published layers.
Comparing sites quickly
Running several candidate addresses takes minutes rather than an afternoon, which is where most of the time goes in a site-selection exercise.
What it has not been checked against
Stated here rather than buried, because you are being asked to test it and because some of you will put a number from it into marked work.
- Roughly one citation in thirteen does not resolve to a clause. Some name a whole instrument and no more. They now say so, but they still do not take you anywhere.
- Coverage is uneven. 28 councils have numeric controls extracted. Outside those you will get considerably less, and that is a gap rather than a fault.
- Wingecarribee controls are read from the Bowral town plan and served across the whole shire. The numbers are identical in the Mittagong and Moss Vale plans — that has been checked — but table numbers differ between them, so a citation may not match the plan you open.
- Nothing here has been tested against a council’s own determination. It reads the published instruments. It does not know what a council would actually approve.
None of it is planning advice, and none of it replaces reading the instrument. If you use a number in assessable work, check it against the source and cite the source — not this tool.
I am a student
If your lecturer gave you a link with a class code in it, use that one — it groups your feedback with your class. Otherwise start here.
Open Site ControlsI teach a class
Free access for your cohort for the teaching period, and a guest session if it is useful. You get a link carrying your own class code, so feedback comes back grouped. No cost and nothing to sign.
Get a class linkWhat is actually wanted back
Not “it looks good” — that cannot be acted on. Two things are worth more than everything else combined, and the feedback button already knows which address you were looking at.
“This control is missing.”
You know from the DCP that a control applies to your site and it is not shown. Send the address, which control, and where you found it.
“This number is wrong.”
The tool says one thing and the DCP says another. Send the address, both numbers, and the clause. This is the single most useful thing you can send.
A use nobody designed for is worth more than a bug. If you find yourself wanting it for something it was not built to do, say so.