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 product was released to customers on 27 March 2024 with data extracted on 26 March 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.
In previous releases of Planning Insights, fire and flood overlays in Tasmania have represented areas where historical fire and flood events have occurred. This does not align with our implementation of flood and fire overlays in other states, where these overlays are representative of fire and flood risk. For the March 2024 release new logic has been implemented to represent flood and fire risk within the Tasmanian overlays, rather than historical events. This has resulted in count increases for fire and flood overlays in TAS for the March 2024 release.
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.
We have noticed 216 records in the QLD planning_insights_zoning table relating to 8 zone_label2 values that exceed the 120 character limit for this field. These values have been truncated to 120 characters for this release and will be investigated with our data supplier. The zone_label2 values provided by our supplier that exceed the 120 character limit are:
SA31 - Special Opportunity - Riverview - Kenneth Street, Riverview Road, Station Road, Brisbane-ipswich Rail Line & the confluence of the Brisbane & Bremer Rivers - Including Salv
SA34 - Special Opportunity - Gooda - Bounded by Brisbane-Ipswich rail line & Railway Terrace to the North of the Ipswich Motorway
SU10RV - Special Uses - Place of Worship - including an Auditorium, Administration, Cafe, Meeting House & Caretaker’s Residence
SU54 - Special Uses - Plant propagation and production, wholesale plant nursery and ancillary buildings, structures and access
SU73 - Special Uses - Highway Oriented Uses, Business Uses, Service Trades Uses and Light Engineering/Metal Fabrication Works
SU81 - Special Uses - Highway Service Centre comprising Service station, Automatic/Manual Carwash, Shop not exceeding 100m2 GFA, Restaurants, Fast Food Stores, Accommodatio
TCP - Town Centre - Town Centre Primary Business Area, including land situated at 3, 5, 11, 13-15 and 17 John Street and land situated between John, Railway, Albert and
TCS - Town Centre - Town Centre Secondary Business Area, including alnd situated between Church Lane, Skinner, Albert and William Streets and fronting the eastern side of
We have noticed an increase of ~25,000 in Strata cadastre parcels with a primary link to the planning_insights table in WA. This is much larger than the 1,171 new WA Strata parcels present in the February 2024 Cadastre product. This means that Strata parcels are being assigned primary links where they were assigned a secondary link in the past. These sites will still provide a primary link to the Lot parcel at the site. This change has contributed to a record count increase of 577,921 within the WA planning_insights_address table, as more cadastre have a primary link to the planning_insights table and are linked to an address.
On discussion with our data supplier, they are also aware of this issue where Strata and Lot parcels at a site are now given a primary link where only the Lot was assigned a primary link in the past. They have advised us that they will look into resolving this issue.
Geoscape has become aware of an error in the assignment of infrastructure, industry and environment flags within the planning_insights table for the December 2023 release where the values have been set to ‘true’ when there is no overlay of the required type relating to the cadastre. This issue did not affect the overlay records within the planning_insights_overlays table, with infrastructure, industry and environment overlays represented correctly. This issue has been resolved for the March 2024 release with these flags correctly implemented.
Our data supplier has become aware of a number of incorrectly assigned VIC bushfire overlays in the December 2024 release. The issue involved older bushfire overlays being spatially related to cadastre even though they should have been superseded by a newer bushfire overlay that could potentially have a different overlay_value and geometry. This meant that both the old and the new bushfire overlays were related to the cadastre which resulted in an inflation of the counts for bushfire overlays.
This issue has been resolved for the March 2024 release, with only active bushfire overlays included in the relationship with cadastre in VIC. This has resulted in legitimate reductions in the bushfire flags and overlays in VIC for the March 2024 release.
In the December 2023 Release, an issue was noted that additional cadastre with a source value of ‘Geoscape Australia’ were incorrectly assigned a primary link in Planning Insights. On investigation with our data supplier we have found that these additional primary links to Geoscape Australia parcels were intentional, so these links have been retained in the product.
In 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 a future 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.
Geoscape is investigating the inclusion of two new attributes called zone_colour and zone_source in the planning_insights_zoning table.
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 included 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.
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 |
ACT |
NSW |
NT |
OT |
QLD |
SA |
TAS |
VIC |
WA |
TOTAL |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
planning_insights |
Additional |
436 |
7,476 |
179 |
0 |
5,194 |
4,944 |
2,457 |
13,108 |
27,412 |
61,206 |
Retired |
49 |
3,072 |
17 |
0 |
1,582 |
1,411 |
372 |
2,636 |
420 |
9,559 |
|
Updated |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
135,466 |
3,303,188 |
65,699 |
0 |
2,080,638 |
954,536 |
304,166 |
3,147,968 |
1,246,852 |
11,238,513 |
|
% Change |
0.29% |
0.13% |
0.25% |
0.00% |
0.17% |
0.37% |
0.69% |
0.33% |
2.21% |
0.46% |
|
planning_insights_overlays |
Total |
603,170 |
19,992,261 |
658 |
0 |
9,910,675 |
7,894,229 |
501,845 |
5,874,774 |
2,036,283 |
46,813,895 |
planning_insights_zoning |
Total |
134,545 |
3,328,355 |
60,856 |
0 |
1,771,512 |
956,351 |
304,220 |
6,328,852 |
1,951,053 |
14,835,744 |
planning_insights_address |
Total |
256,711 |
4,643,804 |
354,537 |
0 |
4,381,688 |
1,060,592 |
350,294 |
5,303,681 |
2,997,616 |
19,348,923 |