Release notes

Building Notification – inspection comment

When indicating Yes or No to inspect a building notification a ‘comment’ can now be added.

The comment can be viewed from the Building Notification Details, Inspections 'Pending' table (Yes to inspect) and the 'Completed' Inspection record (No to inspect).

Request for information - updates

Layout updates to the Further Information Request table, includes:

• column order change now reads as Consent, Requested By, Requested Date, Due Date, Response Date (new), Request Document and Action(s)
• Expiry Date now reads as Due Date.
• new Response Date field will show (pending) when awaiting evaluation of the response and remain showing, until all requested information has been provided.

new action View Decision History will provide a history of the RFI requests and the evaluation response.

Certificate of Occupancy (CoO) for 1A is not required until 1 January 2024

New ’31 December 2023‘ date has been updated within the Building or Building Work question ’If the building is completed after 31 December 2023, who will the Certificate of Occupancy be issued by?’ – this only applies for Class 1A building or building work.

New data range '16 December 2021 and 31 December 2023' has been updated in the information box located in the Create Certificate of Occupancy page.

The Application & Consent page banner now includes the location address. For example:

• Single location show: Planning Consent - 22000001 - 50 Flinders Street, Adelaide
• Multiple locations show: Building Consent - 22000001 - 50 Flinders Street, Adelaide / 51 Flinders Street, Adelaide + 2 more locations

Variation - Not a minor variation letter

Improvements to the letter template, includes:

• Revised attention heading now reads ‘Application – Variation Request – New application required’
• Inclusion of the variation request ‘details’ provided by the applicant
• Inclusion of the proposed development (i.e. Nature of Development).

The ‘Application – Variation Request – New application required’ letter is now attached to the Variation Request Denied email notification.

The following contact types are now selectable options from the Contact Type field drop-down within the Edit Contact page.

• Building Certifier
• Building Owner
• Owner’s Agent
• Registered Building Work Supervisor
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Updates made to the Request for Information screen, includes:

• RFI Expiry Date label updated to now read 'RFI Due Date'.
• RFI Due Date now shows the next working day, when falls on a weekend or public holiday.
• Update the Information pane to now read as "Requests for information must have a minimum due date of 60 business days and up to one calendar year, as prescribed in section 119 of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016."

Building Notification –Statement of Compliance Part A and Part B

On the first building/building work commencement building notification, a prompt will now request the following:

• Who is proposed to sign the statement of compliance?
• who is signing Part A (Main building work contractor, or Registered building work supervisor, or Building certifier)and Part B (Owner, or Owner's agent)?

Certificate of Occupancy - Statement of Compliance Part A and Part B

The Certificate validation checklist will show who was nominated from the first building/building work commencement building notification.

This occurs once when a Statement of Compliance (SOC) has been received the signed by Part A (Main building work contractor, or Registered building work supervisor, or Building certifier)and Part B (Owner, or Owner's agent).

Planning and/or Land Division Consent - new referral prompt

During Planning and Land Division Consent and Land Division Consent, any document/s uploaded in the category 'Plans', will trigger the below pop-up message:

"Plans have been uploaded during the Assessment of this consent, please consider if these plans are amended and therefore require any new referrals for consideration".

Additional Documents Upload

Improvements to the Additional Documents page include:

• a 'description' column for document types
• a column showing who uploaded the document and when it occurred
• a column with the decision outcome and the decision date.

Request Application Withdrawal

The following changes have been made to the Request Application Withdrawal page:

• Field Notes to Relevant Authority is now mandatory, the character limit has been changed to 100 from 500.
• Field Document Upload updated to read as Document Upload (Optional)
• The ‘reason for withdrawal’ is now included in the email notification to the applicant, relevant authority and referral bodies.
• An event record is now created for the withdrawal submission and decision.

Determine Additional Fees – Compliance

The following updates have been to the Compliance fees descriptions:

• Class 1 Building (previously read: Class 1)
• Class 10 >$10,000 except for swimming pools (previously read: Class 10 > $10,000)
• Classes 2-9 Buildings (previously read: Classes 2-9)

Determine Additional Fees – Compliance

The following compliance fees are now available within the Determine Additional Fees screen for accredited professionals (building certifiers):

• 'Class 1 Building',
• 'Class 10 > $10,000 except for swimming pools
• 'Classes 2-9 Buildings'.

Building Fee Calculation

New functionality now enables the building assessment – class fees to be calculated on development cost per planning element and build classification rather than the Total Development Cost.

Includes new functions:

• Applicants can now enter an estimated development cost per planning element in the ‘What do you want to do?’ page in the Development Application section.
• The ‘Nature of Development’ page is now called the ‘Nature and Cost of Development’.
• A new Development Cost breakdown table has been added within the Nature and Cost of Development page, during Planning and Building Verification - for the council relevant authority.
• A new editable field ‘Total Development Cost’ has been added within the Nature and Cost of Development page, during Planning and Building Verification – for both councils and accredited professional relevant authorities.
• A new Development Cost section has been added within the Fees page for all consents and development approval, and shows either the 'Development Cost' breakdown table or the 'Total Development Cost' field – determined by the assessing or development approval relevant authority.

Organisation Message

The organisation message functionality now allows councils to communicate key messages that may prompt an application’s contact to visit the council office and/or co-located community facilities.

It includes two additional fields within the Organisation Details page:

• Organisation Message a 200 character field to enter a message
• Message Reference Link field to enter a web-link.

When set-up, the message will populate within pre-defined types of communication including emails, fee advice and tax invoices, and public notification letters.

Mandatory Building Notifications – Update building contact details

New look and feel for the Submit Mandatory Building Notifications screen, which includes the ability to:

• indicate who is submitting the notification; i.e., licensed building work contract or Building Owner
• select the Licensed building work contract/Building owner from the application contacts list
• add a new Licensed building work contract/Building owner and contact created and available from the application contacts list
• reflect the contact details of whoever is providing the notification; e.g. Licensed building work will show the 'Builder's Name' or a Building Owner will show the 'Building Owner's Name'

Inspection Details – Building notification activity date

The building notification 'Date of Activity' now shows in the Inspections Details screen.

Inspection Details – Edit activity date

The building notification 'Date of Activity' is now editable within the Inspection Details page.

An email is sent to the applicant and builder advising the 'Date of Activity’ change.

Once the inspection outcome is recorded the date cannot be edited.

Building Consent - Required Notifications Statement of Compliance

Updated the Required Notifications page for building or building works classed as 10A and / or 10B and includes:

• Removal of the default notification ‘Statement of compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work’.
• Added the Removed default notifications the ‘Statement of compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work’ notification.
• Hidden the 'List below any additional certificates ...' comments box.

Building Notification – Edit activity date

The building notification 'Date of Activity' is now editable prior to an inspection being completed.

An email is sent to the applicant and builder advising the 'Date of Activity’ change.

Once the inspection outcome is recorded the date cannot be edited.

The 'Verification completed' email now advises the applicant:

• on payment of the fee advice the assessment of the consent will commence and a decision issued on completion
• all consents are to be assessed and development approval granted before development can commence.

Updated online forms to allow first name and last names that include an apostrophe and/or hyphen.

• Register yourself
• Register your organisation
• Become an accredited professional
• Public feedback form
• PlanSA planning system support
• Request a change to the Code

Public Notification event record

An event record is created in the Event History tab of the development application when the Public Notification is:

• Closed by the assessor when a new round of consultation is initiated.
  Event record created: Public Consultation <dates> has been cancelled. New round of consultation initiated.
• Closed by the assessor when a new round of consultation is closed using the 'Close Consultation' option.
  Event record created: Public consultation <dates> has closed.
• Closed by the batch process.
  Event record created: Public consultation <dates> period has ended.
• Cancelled by the assessor when public notification is not required.
  Event record created: The relevant authority has determined public consultation to be unnecessary.
• Cancelled by the assessor by initiating 'Cancel Public Notification'.
  Event record created: Public consultation <dates> has been cancelled by the relevant authority.

The Essential Safety Provision (ESP) Form 3 has been updated to include the following direction statement:

“This form is an approved form for the purposes of regulations 94(11) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017.

For the purposes of the annual Form 3, its return is due within 60 business days after the end of the 2021 calendar year.

The Form 3 certificate in Schedule 16 of the repealed Development Regulations 2008 is also an approved form for the purposes of regulation 94(11) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Form 3 certificate in Schedule 16 of the repealed Development Regulations 2008 will not be an approved form for the purposes of regulation 94(11) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017 for any annual Form 3 return due more than 60 business days after the end of the 2021 calendar year.”

The building notification 'Statement of Compliance’ and other documents required at the completion of building work notification has been removed as a default notification for Class 10A building work/works.

Should you need/require to include or add the notification, it is still available in the ‘Removed default notifications’ list.

Referral Response Type

For referral requests to the Chief Executive of the Department or the Minister responsible for the administration of the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 –the following referral response type wording will now reads as:

• 9(3)(12) – Activities that would otherwise require permit under Landscape South Australia Act 2019 that may impact on water resources.
• 9(3)(13) – Activities that may give rise to water allocation issues under Landscape South Australia Act 2019 that involve the taking of water.

A maximum file size of 50MB per document applies when uploading public inspection documents when initiating a public notification (in step 1).

The maximum file size advice (‘Maximum file size 50MB per document’) is indicated in the ‘Information’ and ‘Upload’ sections within Public Notification.

Public inspection documents exceeding the file size limit will be highlighted with a message showing the file size has been exceeded.

The ‘Local Government Agency (Council/Authority)’ field label has been changed to 'Local Government Area' (Council/Authority)’.

It can be found in the ‘Cannot find the council land or water development location’ section of the ‘Locations’ pages within the ‘Map Search’ option in the application.

Appeals documents

In addition to the existing document types 'Court Decision' and 'S126 Notice to ERDC' the following document types are available from the 'Appeals' document category:

• Application to assessment panel
• Application to State Planning Commission
• Legal Correspondence
• Correspondence – General
• Internal Correspondence
• Panel Agenda Item
• Minutes from the assessment panel
• Decision Notification Form

Location on council land and water developments

A new option to add a development location on council land (e.g. street signs and trees) and on/over water development (e.g. jetty and pontoon) is now available.

Application location search options

The Location Identification Record has been removed from the Locations page of the development application.

Email notifications

Improvements have been made to the system generated notifications, and includes:

• the applicant(s) name and the location address in the email body banner. Noting, for multiple location addresses only one address is shown, followed by 3 dots ‘…’ to indicate there is more than one address.
• a ‘single’ location address in the ‘subject’ name of the email notification.

Certificate of Occupancy issuing decision

The message before a decision can be granted for a ‘satisfactory inspection outcome’ now reads: “There must be an inspection for the Completion of Building work with a satisfactory outcome”.

Note: this message appears on the Decision page within the Certificate of Occupancy screen, which lists the items that must be actioned before a decision can be granted.

Representation Form – Major development

A validation of the Name field within the Contacts section of the Representation form is now in-place. The error message reads:

‘Name must start with an alpha character. Special characters allowed are hyphen (-) and apostrophe (').'

Mobile – submit a representation

Resolved iPhone X iOS 15.0.2 & Safari submitting a representation initiated by scanning a QR Code.

Insurance tab added to Development approval

The ‘Development Approval’ screen now features an Insurance tab, which houses the ‘Building’ or ‘Building Work’ insurance details.

Conditions and Notes

The ‘Include in DNF’ checkbox is now enabled for conditions and advisory notes added by a referral body.

Minor Variation - additional document types

The document category ‘Variation Outcome’ has replaced ‘General Correspondence’ within the New Documents section of the Review Variation Request screen. This update includes the following new document types – ‘Internal Correspondence’, ‘Stamped Plans – Minor Variation’, and ‘Variation Outcome’.

Building Notification - Activity Date warning message

A warning message (see below) now shows when the ‘building notification activity date’has passed or is outside of the notification’s required timeframe.

“You are receiving this notification because an activity date has now passed and/or because it is outside of the allocated timeframe. This may make you liable to a council expiation fee ($750).”

Inspections - inspected elements

The Inspections record now includes a ‘swimming pool safety features’ checkbox within the ‘Elements Inspected’ listing.

New document type - internal correspondence

A new document type ‘Internal Correspondence’ is now available from the document category 'General Correspondence' and is only visible to the relevant authority that uploaded the documentation; i.e. the applicant, referral body, or other relevant authority (accredited professional) cannot see this document type.

Document store – new document filters

Public Notification - representation error

If/when exceeding the maximum number of characters while entering details for the fields ‘nominated speaker’ or ‘The specific reason I believe that planning consent should be granted/refused’ – an error message with the number of characters entered will show, with the prompt to meet the set character limits, before submission (i.e. 255 characters for ‘nominated speaker’ and 4,000 for the ‘the specific reason I believe that planning consent should be granted/refused’).

Upload documents - Other Documents collapsed

The ‘Other Documents’ display now defaults to a collapsed view within the Upload Document screen.

The below message prompt will now display within the ‘Submit Mandatory Building Notifications’ screen on commencing building work notification, when:

• ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is entered as the response for if a building works contract in place
• ‘no’ is entered as the response for if building indemnity insurance has not been issued

“A copy of the certificate of the building indemnity insurance is still outstanding for this development - this must be provided prior to commencement.”

Current Notified Developments - search bar improvements

The search bar within the ‘Current Notified Developments’ page now returns matches with or without a special character. Example: O'Connell now returns results with or without the apostrophe.

PlanSA mobile view

The ‘Login’ and ‘Registrations’ options now show under the ‘News’ menu.

Upload documents after development approval

Documents for development applications, consent, or development approval can now be uploaded into the Document store after development approval.

New Building Indemnity Insurance document type

A new Document Type—‘Building Indemnity Insurance’—is now available from the Document Category ‘Building Consent Documents’ and is only available from the Building Consent ‘Insurance’ tab and the ‘commencement’ building notification section.

Building indemnity insurance question

Updated ‘building or building work’ question Has Home owners warranty insurance been issued? replacing ‘Home Owners Warranty’ with ‘Building Indemnity’ and now reads as: Has Building Indemnity Insurance been issued?

Building Consent Assessment Info page

For the applicable Building or Building work the ‘Insurance Certificate’ can now be uploaded in both the Assessment Info and Insurance tabs.

New insurance tab for building consent

A new Insurance tab containing the Building or Building work insurance details is now available and can be edited by the applicant and relevant authority within the Building Consent screen.

New document upload for insurance certificate for building notification

The ‘insurance certification for building indemnity insurance’ can be uploaded on submission of the first building notification confirming ‘commencement of building work’.

Urban Tree Canopy off-set fee

The ‘Urban Tree Canopy off-set fee’ now displays a default amount of $300 in the Actual amount field when the fee is selected within the Fees screen.

Note: The fee is to be calculated manually and the Actual amount is to be updated based on the calculation per tree:

• Small tree (4 metre mature height) $300
• Medium tree (6 metre mature height) $600
• Large tree (12 metre mature height) $1200

For more information visit Urban tree canopy off-set scheme.

Referral body user assignment

When a referral is assigned to a user the allocation is saved and available within the ‘For Your Action’ table for the allocated user.

Recognised equivalent schemes UI Expression error

Resolved the UI Expression error when applying for accreditation and answered ‘Yes’ to question Recognised equivalent schemes and professional body membership.

Recognised professional body

The ‘AIBS - Australian Institute of Building Surveyors’ has been removed as a recognised professional body of the Accredited Professionals Scheme as per Chief Executive approved changes on 15 October 2021.

Accreditation renewal email

Resolved the email notification ‘Linked Accredited Professional is no longer registered’ from being sent on accreditation renewal.

Registration fee calculation

The Accredited Professional Scheme registration fee payment now only reduces for those professional bodies recognised as an equivalent scheme (as set-out on pages 8 and 9 of the amended ‘Accredited Professionals Guide’).

Search improvements within the documents store

Improved search capability within the Documents store includes ability to:

• perform a Document Search by name, type or category (New)
• indicate ‘Where was the document uploaded?’at the application, planning consent, building consent or development approval stage(s)
• refined search using Additional document filters or Other to show superseded documentation.

Documents store default view

The default documentation shown within the Documents store is now specific to the application and consent being assessed or development approval, and includes the option to hide or view superseded documents by turning the 'Superseded' Other search option on/off.

New document description

A new free text field named 'Description' with the Selected Document details is located beneath the Document Type. A description is visible to each consenting relevant authority, the documents are visible to an applicant and a referral body.

New Document Category

A new document Category 'Building Consent Documents' now contains the following document Types:

• BAL Assessment Report (New)
• Building Services Consultants Documents (New)
• CITB Payment Reference
• Construction Details (New)
• Energy Efficiency Documents (New)
• Engineering Civil (New)
• Engineering Footing Design
• Engineering Structural
• Environmental Consultants Report (New)
• Fire Services Consultant Documents (New)
• Floor Trusses
• Home Warranty Indemnity Insurance
• Other building Documents
• Roof Trusses
• Specifications
• Timber Framing (New)

Ability to edit transitional consents details

An addition of Transitional Consent Details within the Submission details section of the Development Application now features a Summary tab, including an 'edit' capability (available only after an application submission, and during building verification or assessment).

When edits are made to the transitional consent details, the application’s 'primary contact' is notified of the updates by email or post.

Record an Inspection Form

A new 'Not Inspected' option is available from the Inspection Outcomes drop-down field within the 'Record an Inspection' page.

Updates to edit Essential Safety Provisions page

Updates to the ‘add Essential Safety Provisions’ page includes:

• an updated 'View all Ministerial Building Standards' hyperlink now reads as View MBS 002 - Maintaining the performance of ESPs
• the question ‘Do Essential Safety Provisions Apply? now reads as ‘Do new Essential Safety Provisions Apply?’
• the question ‘Is Form 1 Required?’ has been removed. There are no impacts to development applications currently under assessment or with decision(s) issued.

a new question: ‘Is Form 3 annual return required?’

Updates to add Essential Safety Provisions page

Updates to the ‘add Essential Safety Provisions’ page includes:

• an updated 'View all Ministerial Building Standards' hyperlink now reads as View MBS 002 - Maintaining the performance of ESPs
• replaced 'title' with 'Schedule' in the ESP Title field, to now read as ESP Schedule.

Select and add a building owner - Essential Safety Provisions

Enhanced the Building Owner field to enable the selection of existing owner 'contacts' on the application and the ability to 'add' a new building owner. Either selection (i.e. existing or new) will create a Building Owner contact that is accessible from the development application – summary page.

Removal of Referral Body

Removed 'South East Australia Gas Pty Ltd' as a referral body.

Building consent - Owner Builder

Within the Building / Building Work section in the Assessment Info page for Class 1 and Class 10 building works the question: 'Has the applicant entered into a domestic building works contract?' now includes a new option – 'Owner Builder'.

Removal of no action required message

Removed the message 'There is currently no action required from you' from the ‘This application currently requires an action from you’ within the Summary page of the Development application.

Additional information on Close of consultation completion

Once a public notification consultation concludes, the Close Consultation window now provides additional information with a 'what happens next' section and the approximate 1 hour processing time for the 'combined representations' document.

Inclusion of representations produced by a Apple Mac device

Public Notice 'representations' including an attached PDF file procedure generated from an Apple Mac device are now included in the combined representation PDF generated on close of consultation.

Reportable data Inspections Council Report

Inspections with an outcome of  ‘Not inspected' with an inspection status of ‘completed’ and 'not inspected reason’ are now not included in the following inspection reports:

• Inspection Compliance
• Inspections Register
• Inspection Location
• Practice Direction 8
• Practice Direction 9

Building Team Report

Inclusion of a ‘Is Form Three Required’ column with a 'Yes' or 'No' indicator has been added to the right of the Form One Required column.

Invoice update

Two enhancements implemented:

1. On the top right of the invoice, the 'For enquiries, please contact' section will now display the contact details of the Relevant Authority that is assessing the Consent/Development Approval.
2. 'Pay in Person' option will no longer appear on the invoice when the Relevant Authority is an Accredited Professional.

Updated the Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes

The following improvements have been made to the Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes:

• The Property address now shows under the Certificate Title
• The following questions now include a link to the State Heritage Places Database Search tool:
  • 'Is the land situated in a State Heritage Place/Area'?
  • 'Is the land designated as a Local Heritage Place'?
• The below question now includes a link to the online Planning and Design Code:
  • 'Is there a tree or stand of trees declared to be a significant tree/trees in the Planning and Design Code'?

The Code Amendments section is removed and now included in the Property Interest Report.

DA Awaiting Payment Report

Improvements made to the ‘DA Awaiting Payment’ report features a new look for payment details and new additions, including:

• New additional filters:
  • 'Application Status'
  • 'Fee Advice Created Date'
  • 'Fees Raised at'
  • 'Allocated Assessor'
• Location: address of the proposed development
• Invoice contact: name and details
• Allocated assessor: name of the team member allocated to assess the consent/grant development approval
• Fees raised at: to identify the consent or 'at development' approval
• Consent and status: for the identification of the consent or application status related to the ‘Fees raised at’
• Fee Categories: to identify what fees are outstanding, including:
  • Lodgement
  • Planning Consent
  • Land Division Consent
  • Building Consent
  • Development Approval (compliance fees)
  • Referral Body
• Fee Advice created date: the date the invoice is generated and sent to the invoice contact (also used to calculate the 'days since distribution'
• Days since distribution (business days): includes traffic light colours to visually identify outstanding fee advice(s) for:
  • 1 – 10 days (green)
  • 11 – 20 days (amber)
  • 21+ days (red)
• Total: all outstanding fee advices

To identify the fee breakdown and the nature of development, export the underlying data.

Active Allocations Report

Improvements made to the Workload Analysis Council - Active Allocations report include:

• New multi-selection filters:
  • Application Status
  • Relevant Authority/Allocated Assessor
• Update to the Consent Status filter now includes both 'Consent’ and ‘DA Status'
• The bar graph key now lists the name of the consent or development approval; e.g. 'BC' is now Building
• Allocation bar graph now shows the team member's total allocation
• Renamed the following fields, with no change to the data reported:
  • DA Status to 'Application Status'
  • DA Lodge Date to 'Lodgement Date'
  • Allocation Type to 'Decision Type'
  • Allocation Expiry to 'Clock Expiry'

Updated Consent status to 'Consent/DA Status' (now includes the application status).

Public notification position of the sign on land

The View Details option within the Public Notification page now shows 'No instructions entered’ when:

• the relevant authority is nominated to place the sign on land
• the applicant is placing the sign on land and the relevant authority has provided no placement instructions, or
• the sign on land is not required.

Public Notification Consultation

As part of the Department’s ongoing commitment to improve the state’s planning system with enhancements, a new redesigned Public Notification solution within the PlanSA ePlanning system was released on 26 August 2021.

The redesign of this end-to-end solution was in response to insightful and valuable feedback received from working in close collaboration with the system's end-users and key stakeholders and delivers a range of benefits to councils, applicants and the community where they are notified of development.

The following step-by-step guides are available from: PlanSA – Support Library – Assess an application consent > Public Notification.

Improvement to the ‘Your Application –for Your Action’ tab

• Now shows the Action details and clock with the number of days remaining to complete the action.
• The Days clock has been updated to show the days remaining for verification, assessment or development approval.
• The Days clock now shows a ‘paused’ icon with days remaining at the time the clock was paused.

Improvement to the ‘Your Application  - Under Assessment’ tab

• Updated the Status to show the consent applicable, i.e. Planning and Land Division Consent, Planning Consent, and Building Consent. For example: Assessment in progress (Planning Consent).
• Status now shows as ‘Verification in Progress’ instead of 'Assessment in Progress’ when an application’s subsequent consent is going through verification.
• The Days clock has been updated to show the days remaining for verification, assessment or development approval.
• The Days clock now shows a ‘paused’ icon with days remaining as at the time the clock was paused.
• An application showing a grey Days clock with a dash ‘–‘ indicates an action must be completed by the applicant, e.g. make payment of the verification lodgement fees, to start the assessment clock for (planning, planning and land division, and building)

Improvements to the Current notified developments register and submission

• A new search field to find a notified development by property address, council name or application identification number.
• New capability to sort tables to show the current notified developments in order of Application ID, Applicant name, Property Address, Nature of Development and Close Date.
• The new solution on public notification has been updated with a new look and feel, which will only show for public notification applications initiated in the new public notification solution and will include the following new features:
  • map viewer showing the property location and the ability to open the South Australian Property and Planning Atlas (SAPPA) to view zoning and other layers for this location
  • link to the current policies that apply to the notified property location
  • link to view more application details from the development application register
  • 3-step submission form: step 1: contact details, step 2: submission details, and step 3: supporting documents.

Reporting now shows Nature of Development

The Nature of Development now shows in the following reports.

Council

• Planning Consent
• Building Consent
• Land Division Consent
• Planning and Land division C

Workload Analysis

• End of operative period
• Public Notification signage
• Home builder DA
• Active allocations

Inspections Council

• Inspection register
• Practice Direction 8
• Practice Direction 9

Building Team

• Building team
• Builder

Report name updated

The following Council report names now read as follows:

• DA report is now Development Applications.
• Planning C is now Planning Consent.
• Building C is now Building Consent.

Land Division C is now Land Division Consent.

Update Public Notification indicator

The ‘Public Notification’ indicator has been changed to Yes or No within the Council – Planning Consent report.

Location available

A 'Location' column now shows under the consent table within the Council – Planning and Land Division report and Council – Land Division Consent report.

Nature of Development and Development cost available

Include the ‘Nature of Development’ and ‘Development cost’ within the Council – Zones Report.

Legend added to reports with a Map

A Legend now shows for map visuals within the Council – Development Application report and Consents Report.

Council development number and location available

‘Development Number’ for transitional development applications and ‘Location’ of the development within the Council – Development Application Report have been included.

Update the Council report order

The order of the Council reports has been changed to show the Accessibility report after the Land Division Consent report.

Filter by consent and assessor

The ability to filter by one or multiple ‘Consent Type/s’ and filter by one or multiple ‘Allocated Assessor/s’ is now available within the Council – Consents report.

Filter by multiple data types

The ability to filter by one or many options is now available across all reports.

Updated source of the estimated development cost

The Council – Numbers report estimated development cost is now derived from the estimated development cost at decision not submission.

Spelling correction

Spelling correction of the counter label 'Total Estimated development cost’ within the Council – Numbers report.

Filter defaults to lodged

The Application Stage filter now defaults to 'Lodged' for the following reports.

Council Report

• Development applications
• Performance DA
• Performance RA/Consents
• Elements
• Zones
• Accessibility

Report moved

The Council – Statistics report data can has been moved the suite of Council reports.

Location address available

In the report table and visualisations (e.g. graphs and dials) the exportable underlying Data now includes the Location addresses – with the exception of the following reports.

Council

• Performance RA/Consents
• Zones
• Planning Consent
• Building consent
• Planning and Land Division Consent

Indicator

• Fee report
• Consents Granted vs refused
• Planning consents
• Building Consents
• Planning and Land Division Consents
• Land Division Consents

Workload Analysis

• Relevant Authority Reason

Filter by consent stage and date

A Consent Stage filter has been added to enable filtering by Awaiting Verification, Granted, In verification, or under assessment within the following reports.

Council Report

• Planning Consent
• Building Consent
• Planning and Land Division Consent
• Land Division Consent

Important! If a Planning or Building Consent verification is in 'draft' then the 'Swimming Pool' fee is shown under the Compliance tab of the Fee Request screen.

• The 'Business Name' field is now above the 'Street Address' fields, and is a mandatory field.
• The wording ‘Please provide a work or home address' has been removed.
• The wording 'This address will appear on the Accredited Professionals Public Register' is now above the Business Name field.

Noting, downloading multiple documents is currently not available within the Verify Documentation page during verification.

1. The notification ‘required on’ now uses radio buttons for options ‘Commencement’ and ‘Completion’.
2. New ‘Building Work’ notification with ‘Notification required on’ set to default as ‘Completion’. ‘Business days’ notification’ set to default as 1.
3. The notification 'Statement of Compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work' now defaults from ‘Notification required on’ to 'Completion'.
4. ‘Installation of a designated building product on a designated building’ has been removed and now appears under ‘Removed Default Notifications’ with an ‘include’ option for adding the notification.

‘Provision of a completed supervisor’s checklist relating to the installation of the designated building product’ has been removed and now appears under ‘Removed Default Notifications’ with an ‘include’ option for adding the notification.

1. Building stage ‘Building Work’ with Notification required on ‘Completion’ defaults to 1 day.
2. Building stage ‘Statement of Compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work’ with Notification required on ‘Completion’ defaults to 1 day.
3. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Commencement’ defaults to 1 day within metropolitan Adelaide and 2 days outside metropolitan Adelaide.
4. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Completion’ show 1 business day irrespective of the development location (i.e. within or outside of metropolitan Adelaide).

Additional building stage/s notifications added by an Accredited Professional (as the relevant authority) defaults to 1 day irrespective of the development location (i.e. within or outside of metropolitan Adelaide).

1. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Commencement’ defaults to 1 day within metropolitan Adelaide and 2 days outside metropolitan Adelaide.
2. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Completion’ show 1 business day irrespective of the development location, i.e. within or outside of metropolitan Adelaide.
3. Additional building stage/s notifications added by an Accredited Professional as the relevant authority defaults to 1 day irrespective of the development location, i.e. within or outside metropolitan Adelaide.

1. New Transitional Consent column showing ‘Yes’ or ‘No’
2. New Transitional Consent filter with a ‘No’ default
3. Addition of the ‘Assessment Panel’ type to the Assessor filter
4. New Development Category column

Relevant Authority column now shows Assessment Manager at <council name>, Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel> or Regional Assessment Panel at <RAP>.

The Relevant Authority filter and the table column 'Relevant Authority' within the Council Report - Planning C report now shows the relevant authority:

• Assessment Manager at <council name>
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel>
• Regional Assessment Panel at <RAP>.

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• Renamed the 'Section 7' screen name to Section 7 Data Service.
• Renamed the Download Section 7 Data Extract to Download Data Extract for Section 7.
• Renamed the download file name from Section 7 to Data extract for Section 7.

• Renamed the Section 7 Report to now read 'Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes'.
• Removed the Zone Overlay codes; e.g. O0306 Affordable Housing now reads as Affordable Housing..
• Removed the Zones codes; e.g. Z4201 N Neighbourhood now reads as Neighbourhood.
• Removed PID reference from the GIS Dataset section.
• Renamed Associated Building Insurance heading to Associated Building Indemnity Insurance.

• Edit application contacts (applicant, primary contact, land owner or invoice contact).
• Add contacts for applicant, land owner or builder.
• An applicant and/or land owner contact can only be deleted when multiple contacts exist; except when the contact is a builder then the delete option is available regardless of the number of contacts.
• Any additions, edits or updates are recorded in the ‘Event History’ of the Development application and the contact is notified via the preferred method (email or post).

“As public notification is required, the Relevant Authority has been updated to the Assessment Panel at <council name> or <Regional Assessment Panel name>”.

Noting, if the answer is changed to ‘No’ the Relevant Authority is not automatically updated to 'Assessment Manager at <council name> or <Regional Assessment Panel name>".

To update the appropriate Relevant Authority from rom within the Summary tab for the Planning Consent, update the Relevant Authority Reason to 'Assessment Manager - Section 96 - Performance Assessed'.

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

• Assessment Manager at <council name> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - DTS shows
• Assessment Manager at <council name> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - performance assessed
• Assessment Panel at <council name> when reason is Assessment Panel - Section 93
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - DTS
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - Performance Assessed
• Regional Assessment Panel at <Regional Assessment Panel> when reason is Assessment Panel - Section 93

• Assessment Manager at <council name>
• Assessment Panel at <council name>
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel>
• Regional Assessment Panel at <Regional Assessment Panel>.

• Assessment Manager at <council name>
• Assessment Panel at <council name>
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel>
• Regional Assessment Panel at <Regional Assessment Panel>.

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

"The Electronic Lodgement fee should only be charged once, and must be charged on the first consent to be issued through the Portal. Please review the payment history beforehand to ensure the Electronic Lodgement fee is not charged twice."

• The ability to record the applicant's decision to pay into the Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Scheme or opt-in to retain existing trees/plant new trees.
• The ability to record the soil type.

• Building Envelope Plan (BEP) Fee – is calculated with a base rate of $175 plus $16 for each allotment defined under the BEP Fee and is distributed to the Land Division Consent Authority
• Publication of Building Envelope Plan Fee – is standardised to $200 and is distributed to the Chief Executive (same as the Electronic Lodgement Fee).

Note: GST is not applicable to these fees.

• New Reason: ‘Relevant Authority (Home Builder DA)’ is selectable for the question ‘Are you an appropriate Relevant Authority for this planning consent’.
• New error message: ‘Home Builder DA application can only be made for New Housing or Dwelling alteration or addition elements. Any other elements needs to be assessed under a separate application.’
• The error message shows when the development application has elements selected outside of ‘New Housing’ and ‘Dwelling Alteration or Addition’, e.g. veranda, carport or garage.
• New Category of Development (Home Builder DA) is selectable only for elements – ‘Dwelling alteration or addition’ and ‘New Housing’.

Note: The Building Consent and Development Approval functionality is unchanged.

• Conditions and Notes within each Consent (Planning, Planning and Land Division, Land Division, building)
• Saved Conditions and Notes page within the Your Organisation dashboard.

• email address for notifications
• checkbox option for users to opt in for 'use same as organisation email'.

Postal address as an additional address option.

• accordions now close when changing sections
• functionality now anchors to the relevant section within a selected accordion.

• 'Did you mean' search functionality, if the spelling input within the search bar is incorrect.
• The word ‘help’ now provides the system support page as the first search result.
• Entering in an application number and/or address will bring up a separate search and take the user to the  Development Application Register.

• Building works with one or more Class 1s and associated inspections is reflected in 'Building Class 1' chart.
• Building works with one or more - Class 2-9s or multiple Class 1s and Class 2-9s - and the associated inspections is reflected in the 'Building Class 2-9' chart.

• 'street address' where an applicant can view the application documentation in person
• details of the relevant authority that assessed the application (email address and postal address). When the development location is within a Regional Assessment Panel (RAP) the details of the council associated with the development location will display.

• display the name and street address of the council associated with the development location when a Regional Assessment Panel (RAP) is assessing the application
• display the name and street address of the relevant authority assessing the application.

• Inpsections Compliance dashboard to track the number of inspections completed versus the percentage required in Practice Direction 8 and 9.
• Inspections Register shows a listing of completed and pending inspections, including infographics for Inspection status, Inspection Status of building notifications, Number of inspections by building classification and Inspection outcome.
• Adhoc Inspections shows a listing of completed and pending inspections, including infographics for Inspection status, Number of inspections by building classification and Inspection outcome.
• Inspection Location graphically showcases the location of completed and pending inspections, number of inspections performed by an inspector, and a percentage breakdown by inspection outcome i.e. not recorded, unsatisfactory, satisfactory.

• who undertook the inspection (inspected by)
• inspection date and time
• elements inspected
• breaches, issues or faults
• rectification required (only displays when Inspection outcome is unsatisfactory)
• requirements for re-inspection (only displays when Inspection outcome is unsatisfactory and Rectification Required checked (i.e. tick box)).

• search for pending or completed inspections
• view pending inspections
• record inspection outcomes.

1. Council Report (New)
2. Work Load Analysis Reports
   • Relevant Authority Reason Report
   • End of Operative Date Report
   • Mandatory Building Notifications Report

• Numbers shows council’s year to date development application statistics.
• DA shows on a map and table the Development Applications lodged.
• Consents shows on a map and table the number of consents.
• Accessibility shows applicant lodging applications behaviour; what days of the week and time of day.
• Performance DAs shows number of days to make a decision.
• Performance Consents shows average days taken by consent type.
• Elements shows on a map and graph the elements assessed.
• Zones shows a types of applications, i.e. Crown, Essential Infrastructure, Exempt, Impact Assessed, Code Assessed and Accepted broken down by zones.
• Planning Consents shows total number of planning consents.
• Building Consents shows total number of building consents.
• Land Division Consents shows total number of land division consents.
• Planning and Land Division Consents shows total number of planning and land division consents.
• Statistics shows development application statistics and responses for further information.

DAP Log-in

When you login to the PlanSA portal you will now see four login options that are applicable to what you want to do in the portal. They are:

• I want to lodge, manage or track my application
• I work as a Relevant Authority
• I work for a Referral Agency
• I want to review my Accredited Professional status

Workload Analysis Report

Workload Analysis Report for Relevant Authorities containing three reporting tabs:

Relevant Authority Reason Report displays a list of consents currently under assessment by Relevant Authority.

End of Operative Period Report displays a list of applications with consents that have reached the end of their operative period.

Mandatory Building Notifications Report displays a list of building notifications grouped by stage and then building / building work requiring an inspection.

Building Class 7 now split into two class categories:

• Class 7a: Carpark
• Class 7b: Building that is used for storage or display of goods or for wholesale produce.