Property planning report. Know before you buy
A Section 32 and a building inspection tell you a lot about a property. What you can build on it is a different question.
RD Building Design's property planning report gives home buyers a complete written analysis of a property's planning controls and title restrictions before you commit.
What your Section 32 won't tell you
Your conveyancer will review the Section 32 carefully. They'll check the certificate of title, identify registered easements, and work through the vendor's statutory obligations. What a conveyancer is not trained to do is interpret what those planning controls mean for what you want to build.
A building inspection covers the structural condition of the property as it stands. Planning analysis and development potential are outside its scope entirely.
Between the two, a surprisingly large question goes unanswered: what can you actually do with this land?
Report by a building designer, not generated by a database
Free government tools show you a zone and flag an overlay. They don't tell you what that combination means when you want to add a second dwelling, extend toward the boundary, or find out whether a heritage overlay requires a permit before you change the façade.
Our property report is written by a building designer who interprets planning controls the same way they would before lodging a permit application. When you read it, you're reading the kind of analysis that usually only happens after you've already bought the property and started designing.
What the report covers
Our planning property report starts with a land registry search and property title search, then produces a written analysis covering everything that shapes what you can build, extend, or develop. By the time you read the report, you'll know exactly where you stand.
- Zoning and what it permits on your block
- Overlay controls, including any heritage overlay designations
- Easements registered on the title and their practical effect on construction
- Restrictive covenants and what they prevent you from building
- Setback and height limits
- Second dwelling and subdivision potential
You receive a plain-language document written by a building designer who reads and interprets planning schemes as part of their regular work. Not a printout of registered data, but a genuine interpretation of what applies to your property and what it means for your plans.
Get your property planning report before you sign
Most buyers wish they'd had this before settlement. Order yours while you still have time to use it.
$220 inc GST
This includes:
- Planning report
- Dial Before You Dig Report
- Copy of Title search
- Plan of Subdivision search
- Covenant search (up to 2 covenants per property if they exist)
- Basic description of the site
- Feasibility/Permits required (dependant on requested works).
What comes after your assessment
If your property stacks up, RDBD works with you from design through to permit and construction.
For backyard offices, studios, and secondary dwellings, we also supply Boxed Buildings, a kit system built from structural SIP panels that assembles in roughly half the time of a conventional build.