Everything the maps say about a property, in one document.
The free Atlas check reads the NSW planning layers for an address and shows you the headline numbers. The report is the written version: every layer that applies, what each one actually means for building, and what to find out next.
There is no automated checkout yet. Requesting sends us the address; we confirm what the report will cover, the delivery date and how to pay before anything is charged or written.
Read from the official sources, not summarised from memory.
- The property itself — matched against the NSW address register, with lot and deposited plan, land area, and any easement recorded over the parcel.
- The controls that set the envelope — land use zone, maximum building height, floor space ratio and minimum lot size, with the indicative floor area those controls allow on this land area.
- Heritage — whether the land carries a heritage item or sits in a conservation area, and what that changes about the pathway.
- Land reserved for acquisition — the layer most people never check, and the one that can end a project outright.
- Hazard and protection layers — bushfire prone land, flood planning, landslide risk, acid sulfate soils, foreshore building lines, terrestrial biodiversity and riparian land. Each one named, with what it adds in consultants, reports and cost.
- Which approval pathways are worth testing — whether the property is a plausible candidate for exempt development, complying development or a development application, and the specific thresholds that decide it.
- What to find out next — the evidence a designer or certifier will ask for, in the order it is worth getting.
A report is not an approval, and nobody can sell you one.
This report reads the published planning layers for an address and explains them. It does not assess a design, and it does not tell you that a particular proposal will be approved — that decision belongs to a council or a certifier, and no consultant can make it for them.
It is not a site inspection, a survey, a contamination assessment or a structural opinion. It will tell you when one of those is likely to be needed.
You will find firms offering approval guarantees and money-back promises. We do not, because the decision is not ours to guarantee.
Three moments where $99 saves a great deal more.
You are bidding on Saturday.
The agent says you can put a granny flat on it. The zoning, the minimum lot size and the bushfire layer decide whether that is true. Worth knowing before the hammer falls, not after.
You own it and you are deciding what to do.
Renovate, extend, or knock down and rebuild. The controls set the ceiling on all three. Knowing the envelope first means you brief a designer instead of paying one to find out.
Someone has told you it cannot be done.
Sometimes that is right. Sometimes it is one hazard layer that has been read too conservatively. The report tells you which layers are actually in play.
One address, one report, $99.
Send the address and what you are thinking of doing with it. If the report will not tell you anything useful about that property, we will say so and not take the money.
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Prepared by Green Design Sydney Pty Ltd. Sources are the NSW Government planning and spatial datasets, read at the date of the report. Planning controls change; a report describes the position on the day it was produced.