Disclaimer
Planning Insights is a comprehensive representation of planning zone and overlay information applicable to land parcels and addresses across Australia. Planning Insights aims to provide insights to enable a greater understanding of how land can be developed and to inform about limitations and specific characteristics of planning sites.
Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Planning Insights product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).
This document provides a description of the issues, changes, features, updates and statistics relating to the applicable Planning Insights release. This document should be read in conjunction with the current Planning Insights Product Guide.
Planning Insights Product Guide Version 1.0 Geoscape Data ( www.geoscape.com.au/data/planning-insights/ )
This product was released to customers on 12 January 2024 with data extracted on 10 January 2024.
This release is a full national data population for Version 1.0 of the Planning Insights product, described by the Planning Insights Product Guide v1.0.
Any issues that have been identified for this release are described in the Issues section.
Geoscape intends to introduce two new attributes called zone_colour and zone_source to the planning_insights_zoning table for the March 2024 release.
Zone Colour will provide a colour for each planning zone in hexadecimal format (e.g. ‘#A88484’), assigned on a scheme by scheme basis. Please be aware that this colour information is not consistent between planning schemes. For example, SA Commercial zones may have a different colour to NSW Commercial zones.
To assist in differentiating the planning schemas that provide the planning zone information, a Zone Source attribute will also be provided that will provide the name of the zone source.
This change will result in a minor increment to the product versioning from v1.0 to v1.1.
From November 2023, Geoscape will be progressively moving product descriptions, guides and reports online to https://docs.geoscape.com.au
Commencing with the May 2024 release, data packages will no longer include the Documents folder.
For the December 2023 Release, it has been observed that a large number of additional primary relationships to cadastre have been included in the planning_insights tables for VIC and WA that were provided as secondary relationships in the previous release.
For example, in the September 2023 release at a high-rise site, only a single Lot parcel with base_cadastre_pid of ‘cadc67070d7457c’ had a primary link. Using this base_cadastre_pid, a secondary link could be made to the the 20 Strata parcels that also exist at the site and were assigned with the same base_cadastre_pid (these parcels would have different cadastre_pid values).
cadastre_polygon_pid |
cadastre_pid |
parcel_type |
base_cadastre_pid |
|---|---|---|---|
cp7c9e018f9cb79 |
cadc67070d7457c |
Lot |
cadc67070d7457c |
cpfd079c5f5bb7e |
cad76750d10765f |
Strata |
cadc67070d7457c |
cp0de474848c212 |
cad5ff87ede7db0 |
Strata |
cadc67070d7457c |
cp192340188efeb |
cad7eb56c73e382 |
Strata |
cadc67070d7457c |
cpf63a91ad4de0b |
cad788a5e7d606c |
Strata |
cadc67070d7457c |
cp533db1741120c |
cadfa24a66d3cb7 |
Strata |
cadc67070d7457c |
However, in the December 2023 release, all 21 of these parcel cadastre_pid values are assigned as a base_cadastre_pid meaning that each of these parcels has a primary link.
cadastre_polygon_pid |
cadastre_pid |
parcel_type |
base_cadastre_pid |
|---|---|---|---|
cp7c9e018f9cb79 |
cadc67070d7457c |
Lot |
cadc67070d7457c |
cp23fea247c8458 |
cad7b53848b9e45 |
Strata |
cad7b53848b9e45 |
This change is especially evident in the planning_insights_address table count changes which have increased by over 900,000 for VIC and WA. Where an address had a primary link to a single Lot parcel in the past, it can now link to many (can be 50+ in high-rise locations) Strata parcels in addition to the Lot parcel.
We are investigating this change with our data supplier and intend to resolve this issue for the March 2023 release.
For the December 2023 Release, it has been observed that cadastre with a source value of ‘Geoscape Australia’ have been incorrectly assigned a primary link in Planning Insights. These parcels are created by Geoscape and should not be linked to in Planning Insights through either a primary or secondary link. This affects 202 Geoscape Australia cadastre in WA and 21,841 in VIC.
We are investigating this change with our data supplier and intend to resolve this issue for the March 2023 release.
NSW bushfire overlay information was found to have been incorrectly omitted from the September 2023 release of Planning Insights. These bushfire overlays have been included in the December 2023 release.
There are approximately 22,000 text strings within the planning_insights tables that contain non-breaking spaces (NBSP) within the permitted, permitted_with_controls and prohibited attribute values. We are investigating these values and will look to replace them with ASCII equivalents in a future release.
There are approximately 1,200,000 text strings within the planning_insights tables that contain HTML entities such as non-ASCII right apostrophes within the permitted, permitted_with_controls and prohibited attribute values. We are investigating these values and will look to replace them with ASCII equivalents in a future release.
There are <13,000 Lot parcels in NT that have a poor secondary linkage to Planning Insights. These parcels mostly relate to remote communities. This occurs as there are large base Lot parcels that have a primary link to the Planning Insights data that contain smaller block-sized parcels that inherit a secondary relationship through the larger parcel. The secondary link is likely to produce an incorrect result in these locations, as the larger parcel’s relationship to zoning and overlays does not necessarily translate to the smaller scale. An example of this can be seen at 130.635580,-11.763371, with the secondary linkage Lot parcels (blue) contained within the south-eastern corner of the larger base Lot parcel (red) that has a primary linkage to Planning Insights.
This section outlines enhancements or changes under consideration, but not planned into a specific release. For further details on future initiatives, please contact Geoscape Support.
We are currently investigating with our data provider the option of consolidating the current overlay groups within the planning_insights_overlays table. Currently there are over 1,000 distinct overlay groups and we believe that these can be consolidated without affecting the information imparted. This change will not affect the overlay_label or overlay_value attributes.
The planning_insights table currently provides a pi_zone_code attribute that provides a single zone code for a cadastre. Where a cadastre relates to multiple zones, a single zone code is consistently selected for the pi_zone_code.
We are investigating with our data provider the option of increasing the intelligence around this attribute so that it represents the planning zone with the largest area of overlap with the cadastre.
Additional, retired and total Planning Insights counts and the percent change to the previous release have been listed in the table below.
TABLE |
SUB_CATEGORY |
ACT |
NSW |
NT |
OT |
QLD |
SA |
TAS |
VIC |
WA |
TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
planning_insights |
Additional |
221 |
7,762 |
80 |
0 |
6,624 |
3,493 |
5,541 |
76,998 |
41,742 |
142,461 |
Retired |
60 |
3,196 |
53 |
0 |
1,840 |
986 |
380 |
3,099 |
529 |
10,143 |
|
Updated |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
135,079 |
3,298,784 |
65,537 |
0 |
2,077,026 |
951,003 |
302,081 |
3,137,496 |
1,219,860 |
11,186,866 |
|
% Change to Previous Release |
0.12% |
0.14% |
0.04% |
0.00% |
0.23% |
0.26% |
1.74% |
2.41% |
3.50% |
1.20% |
|
planning_insights_overlays |
Total |
603,911 |
20,017,162 |
658 |
0 |
9,917,867 |
7,902,974 |
381,955 |
6,060,818 |
2,083,900 |
46,969,245 |
planning_insights_zoning |
Total |
139,086 |
3,332,527 |
60,873 |
0 |
1,771,414 |
958,439 |
304,542 |
3,167,161 |
1,951,608 |
11,685,650 |
planning_insights_address |
Total |
256,074 |
4,628,887 |
353,005 |
0 |
4,369,846 |
1,055,167 |
345,749 |
5,282,268 |
2,419,695 |
18,710,691 |