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 30 September 2024 with data extracted on 17 September 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.
An additional section attribute has been added to the cadastre table that is included alongside Planning Insights. A section can be populated for cadastre in subdivisions where the plan is divided into parts (called sections). Sections enable a lot number to be repeated on a plan unique to each section. This generally occurs when a development relating to a plan is occurring in stages. This attribute will be populated for states and territories with a ‘section’ value within their data model, where a ‘section’ value has been identified for a particular cadastre parcel. For more information on this attribute, please see the Cadastre product guide ( `https://docs.geoscape.com.au/projects/cadastre_guide/en/stable/`_ ).
No new issues.
In the June 2024 release we became aware of source data errors that resulted in a reduction in TAS Flood overlays from ~90,000 in the March 2024 release to ~30,000 in the June 2024 release. The earlier 90,000 assignment was found to be incorrect due to flood source layer issues. We believe that the current representation which covers 35,791 flood related cadastre in TAS is accurate.
In the June 2024 release we became aware of a reduction in NT Heritage overlays from ~600 in the March 2024 release to ~100 in the June 2024 release. Looking into this issue, it was the result of one large lot parcel (base_cadastre_pid = ‘cad6cb3c653bcb0’) in Kakadu National Park that contained ~500 smaller lot parcels. In the March 2024 release all of these ~500 parcels were linked to Planning Insights with a primary linkage, but in the June 2024 release only the container lot parcel was linked, leading to a decrease in the number of lots linked with a primary link to the heritage overlay. On review of this it is not an error and the new representation is correct and provides coverage of heritage across the area.
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
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 |
25 |
9,500 |
80 |
0 |
5,676 |
2,371 |
920 |
13,848 |
2,838 |
35,258 |
Retired |
16 |
3,996 |
25 |
0 |
1,771 |
970 |
448 |
3,296 |
513 |
11,035 |
|
Updated |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
135,361 |
3,297,188 |
63,971 |
0 |
2,071,020 |
951,993 |
297,679 |
3,075,832 |
1,177,762 |
11,070,806 |
|
% Change |
0.01% |
0.17% |
0.09% |
0.00% |
0.19% |
0.15% |
0.16% |
0.34% |
0.2% |
0.22% |
|
planning_insights_overlays |
Total |
606,136 |
19,871,689 |
101 |
0 |
9,838,051 |
7,857,396 |
390,981 |
5,799,775 |
1,996,219 |
46,360,348 |
planning_insights_zoning |
Total |
134,729 |
3,356,765 |
59,360 |
0 |
1,771,720 |
956,371 |
299,743 |
3,189,108 |
1,884,782 |
11,652,578 |
planning_insights_address |
Total |
244,499 |
4,664,273 |
108,690 |
0 |
3,147,782 |
1,050,283 |
336,044 |
4,030,231 |
1,517,513 |
15,099,315 |