Planning

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Overview

Planning provides detailed planning zone codes and descriptions for parcels of land across Australia. By representing the detailed planning classification for each cadastral parcel, as well as links to the relevant planning scheme/instrument, Planning provides a simple lookup for the classification on sites nationally.

Planning is created by combining Geoscape Australia’s Cadastre product with planning zones defined by a state, territory or local governments and is released on a quarterly schedule against the latest Cadastre data, with planning zone source data updated bi-annually.

Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Planning product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website (www.geoscape.com.au).

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 20 December 2023 with data extracted on 23 November 2023.

  • This release is a full national data population for Version 1.2 of the Planning product, described by the Planning Product Guide v1.2.

Any issues that have been identified for this release are described in the Issues section.

Change Notifications

ESRI Shapefile width increase

Commencing with the February 2024 release, the width of numeric fields within Esri Shapefiles will increase by one. This is due to a bug fix in our packaging application. This change only impacts Shapefile metadata, the values and precision remain unchanged.

Removal of the ‘Documents’ folder from data packages

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.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues.

Known Issues

Queensland state-sourced data is not current

The state-sourced data for Queensland is from 2010 and is no longer maintained. Geoscape Australia has sourced local government data for 15 local councils with significant populations to remedy these currency issues, although the state-sourced data is still used for other areas of the state. We are continuing to look at expanding our supplies to include more current source data for Queensland into the future.

Commonwealth maintained areas not necessarily covered

Planning information may not be available for land held by the Commonwealth Government, as this land is not managed by state or local government authorities. For example, planning data is not available for the Jervis Bay Territory as the territory is maintained by the Commonwealth.

Cocos (Keeling) Islands data missing a cadastral polygon

Cocos (Keeling) Islands within the Other Territories data has a missing relationship between the cadastral polygon and planning data. This has occurred due to the cadastral centroid falling outside a planning zone boundary. This is a unique scenario as the cadastral parcel is much larger than the available planning boundaries in this area. This has caused the cadastral centroid to fall within a gap between planning zones and has resulted in no planning zone information being related to the parcel. Elsewhere across the country the cadastral parcels generally are the same size or smaller than the planning zones and do not experience this issue.

Truncated secondary_zone_description value in NSW

The updated planning zone data for NSW includes seven records that have a zone value of 'MOUNT PENANG PARKLANDS BULKY GOODS PREMISES; BUSINESS PREMISES (OTHER THAN MEDICAL CENTRES); CHILD CARE CENTRES; COMMUNITY FACILITIES; EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS; FUNCTION CENTRES; HELIPORTS; KIOSKS; LANDSCAPE AND GARDENING SUPPLIES; MARKET; OFFICES; RECREATION FACILITIES; RETAIL PREMISES; RESTAURANTS; TOURIST AND VISITOR ACCOMMODATION'.

Due to the field length of the secondary_zone_description attribute being limited to 100 characters, this value is truncated to 'MOUNT PENANG PARKLANDS BULKY GOODS PREMISES; BUSINESS PREMISES (OTHER THAN MEDICAL CENTRES); CHILD C'.

Geoscape intends to increase the field length of the secondary_zone_description attribute to 350 to allow for this value. This change is planned for a future release of the Planning product.

Future Considerations

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.

Legacy ‘CAD’ naming

The planning table contains fields of ‘cad_pid’ and ‘cad_polygon_pid’, while the new Cadastre product has attributes of ‘cadastre_pid’ and ‘cadastre_polygon_pid’. We have input the new ‘cadastre_pid’ and ‘cadastre_polygon_pid’ values into the ‘cad_pid’ and ‘cad_polygon_pid’ fields respectively to not affect customer processes with attribute name changes. There is no current plan to change these field names in Planning.

Annex A – Release Counts

Additional, retired and total Localities 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

Additional

4,620

30,868

215

46

21,221

10,579

3,797

393,123

49,543

514,012

Retired

4,586

20,835

142

47

13,656

8,337

2,760

379,630

46,000

475,993

Total

159,937

4,719,338

91,217

1,222

2,995,678

1,150,113

390,881

4,316,448

1,542,357

15,367,191

% Change

0.02%

0.21%

0.08%

-0.08%

0.25%

0.20%

0.27%

0.31%

0.23%

0.25%