Cladding register

The EP&A Regulation requires building owners with external combustible cladding to register their building. This release enables them to register online.

Complying Development Certificate (CDC)

This release provided enhancements to the Online CDC service and was made available to an additional four councils.

Free Tree Initiative

Claim a Free Tree tool to encourage the expansion of green canopy in greenfield areas of Western Sydney. Free trees are available to certain CDC approved developments.

Development Application (DA)

The Online Development Application (DA)service enables the submission, tracking and determination of DAs via the NSW Planning Portal. Initial release to 12 councils.

Complying Development Certificate (CDC)

This release provided enhancements to the Online CDC service and was made available to an additional four councils.

Concurrence and Referral

The Online Concurrence and Referral (C&R) service enables councils to seek State agency advice on DAs via the NSW Planning Portal. Initial nine councils and 24 State agencies.

Development Application (DA) Integration

Integration of the Online DA service with the Online Concurrence and Referral service. It enables councils using both to request State agency advice from one dashboard.

Independent Planning Comission (IPC)

The integration of the IPC with the NSW Planning Portal enabled the ability for councils and the Department to remain in the Portal and refer planning approvals within the digital service.  Documents from the original case are automatically made available to the IPC for assessment.

Single Sign-on with Service NSW​

The ability was initiated for users to log into the NSW Planning Portal using their ServiceNSW credentials.  

This increased the convenience of accessing and the population served of the NSW Planning Portal.

State Planning Agreements Service

Provides work flow and new register for State Planning Agreements (SVPA).

Subdivision Certificates

End to end building approval solution and digital work flow for Subdivision Certificates (SC).

Development Applications (DA)

Integration of the Online DA service with the Online Concurrence and Referral service. It enables councils using both to request State agency advice from one dashboard.

Planning Panels

An enhanced and more simplified Planning Panels Secretariat work flow was released. This includes the creation of a new Planning Panel website and enables all councils to register DAs with the Panel.

Rezoning Review

A new online application for applicants and councils to submit rezoning reviews via the NSW Planning Portal.

Construction Certificates

End to end building approval solution and digital work flow for Construction Certificates (CC)

Occupation Certificates

End to end building approval solution we are creating digital work flow for Occupation Certificates(OC).

Special Infrastructure Contributions

Provides a work flow for Special Infrastructure Contributions (SIC) assessments

Planning Proposals

Customer and council application process for Planning Proposals

Roads Act

An online service made available for Section 68, 125 and 138 applications on the NSW Planning Portal.

Planning Certificates

A new online service for Planning Certificates that enable customers to use their online 10.7 application to start either a Development Application (DA) or a Complying Development Certificate (CDC) Application. 

Part 5 – Review of Environmental Factors

Release of the Part 5 application on the NSW Planning Portal. 

eConstruction

The Department and the Office of the Building Commissioner collaborated to implement digital workflows to comply with regulatory requirements of the Design and Building Practitioner Act 2020. These changes affect building works on Class 2 residential buildings in NSW and impact the Online Complying Development Certificate Service and Online Construction Certificate Service.

Building Information Certificate

As a new digital service, the first release of this project provides a digital workflow for an applicant to be able to submit a Building Information Certificate to council for assessment and determination through the NSW Planning Portal.

Major Projects

A significant enhancement to this existing digital service included additional KPI specific data for planners and proponents; a new standalone engagement workflow to allow compliance officers to create record of meetings; and the ability to add days to the review of certain modifications.

State Design Review Panel (SDRP)

The new State Design Review Panel (SDRP) digital service will relieve the team of labour intensive administrative tasks and digitally transform their business processes.

Project Remediate

Built in collaboration with the Office of the Building Commissioner, Project Remediate is a new digital service. It enables developers who have registered for removal of combustible cladding from Class 2 buildings, either through a DCO or DA/CDC to initiate a case in the NSW Planning Portal, upload their compliance documents and declare and lodge required documentation to receive their Remedial Assurance Certificate.

Planning Proposals

Key enhancements to this digital service include a workflow to facilitate Rezoning Reviews (RR); traffic light indicators (red, amber, green) have been designed to visually indicate compliance to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs), the Active Management Plan has been enabled to ensure that case manager can modify the key dates associated with timeframe reduction KPIs; and the embedding of the NSW Spatial Viewer to identify the location of the site.

Infrastructure Contributions

A workflow to allow Councils to submit their Infrastructure Contributions to the department and made publicly available on the NSW Planning Portal site

Digital Planning Services Enhancements​

In response to customer feedback and input a number of enhancements were made to the digital services including updates to notifications for

• Post-Consent Certificate (PCC) and Complying Development Certificate (CDC);
• increasing character limitations for Construction Certificate (CC) submissions;
• the addition of notifications for voluntary provisioning information in Certificate Registrations and Development Application (DA) State;
• amending ‘request for additional information’ notifications for applicants within Roads Act, DA State and Building Information Certificate (BIC);
• and the addition of a local action option called ‘notice of critical stage inspection’ for applicants to be notified within the Portal for PCC.

Planning Proposals

A new digital service for Section 3.22 planning proposals was released providing a simple process to initiate and finalise these housekeeping amendments.

Section 122 and Section 144 Permits – Roads Act

A new digital services to enable submission of applications for Section 122 (Temporary regulation of traffic) and Section 144 (Permits for road events) of Roads Act 1993 and routing these applications to respective councils and agencies was released. Councils and State agencies will have the ability to process and determine these applications using the NSW Planning Portal.

This release also provides the ability to decouple Roads Act services (sections 125, 138, 144 and 122), ability to apply to multiple Roads Act sections in the same submission and enablement of City of Sydney spatial layers where Place Management NSW and Infrastructure NSW agencies are the road authority.

Conditions of Consent

Release of additional functionality in preparation for the regulations mandate to commence 1 August 2022, for all Councils. This release enhances the functionality available to standardise letters for Approval, Concept Approval, Deferred Approval, Modification, Refusal and Review Letter stages

This release also includes a number of refinements to support the use of standard conditions during modification of DA applications and allows Councils to incorporate their own logo in Notice of Determination correspondence.

Pre-Development Assessment (Pre-DA) Assist Tool

The Pre-DA Assist Tool pilot program provides applicants, certifiers and designers with an opportunity to check if their development designs are compliant with the housing code before lodging their application.

The tool will generate a report which will be available to certifiers when they assess the CDC application. The program is being piloted for up to 12 months and is applicable to all dwelling house applications within Georges River and Parramatta council areas.

Quarterly Enhancement - February

Enhancements to digital services in response to stakeholder feedback will be released. 

• Integration to the Automatic Mutual Recognition Scheme (AMR) for the eConstruction program which allows specific workers from other states to work in NSW.
• API updates