Release notes

Invoice update

Two enhancements implemented:

1. On the top right of the invoice, the 'For enquiries, please contact' section will now display the contact details of the Relevant Authority that is assessing the Consent/Development Approval.
2. 'Pay in Person' option will no longer appear on the invoice when the Relevant Authority is an Accredited Professional.

Updated the Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes

The following improvements have been made to the Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes:

• The Property address now shows under the Certificate Title
• The following questions now include a link to the State Heritage Places Database Search tool:
  • 'Is the land situated in a State Heritage Place/Area'?
  • 'Is the land designated as a Local Heritage Place'?
• The below question now includes a link to the online Planning and Design Code:
  • 'Is there a tree or stand of trees declared to be a significant tree/trees in the Planning and Design Code'?

The Code Amendments section is removed and now included in the Property Interest Report.

DA Awaiting Payment Report

Improvements made to the ‘DA Awaiting Payment’ report features a new look for payment details and new additions, including:

• New additional filters:
  • 'Application Status'
  • 'Fee Advice Created Date'
  • 'Fees Raised at'
  • 'Allocated Assessor'
• Location: address of the proposed development
• Invoice contact: name and details
• Allocated assessor: name of the team member allocated to assess the consent/grant development approval
• Fees raised at: to identify the consent or 'at development' approval
• Consent and status: for the identification of the consent or application status related to the ‘Fees raised at’
• Fee Categories: to identify what fees are outstanding, including:
  • Lodgement
  • Planning Consent
  • Land Division Consent
  • Building Consent
  • Development Approval (compliance fees)
  • Referral Body
• Fee Advice created date: the date the invoice is generated and sent to the invoice contact (also used to calculate the 'days since distribution'
• Days since distribution (business days): includes traffic light colours to visually identify outstanding fee advice(s) for:
  • 1 – 10 days (green)
  • 11 – 20 days (amber)
  • 21+ days (red)
• Total: all outstanding fee advices

To identify the fee breakdown and the nature of development, export the underlying data.

Active Allocations Report

Improvements made to the Workload Analysis Council - Active Allocations report include:

• New multi-selection filters:
  • Application Status
  • Relevant Authority/Allocated Assessor
• Update to the Consent Status filter now includes both 'Consent’ and ‘DA Status'
• The bar graph key now lists the name of the consent or development approval; e.g. 'BC' is now Building
• Allocation bar graph now shows the team member's total allocation
• Renamed the following fields, with no change to the data reported:
  • DA Status to 'Application Status'
  • DA Lodge Date to 'Lodgement Date'
  • Allocation Type to 'Decision Type'
  • Allocation Expiry to 'Clock Expiry'

Updated Consent status to 'Consent/DA Status' (now includes the application status).

Public notification position of the sign on land

The View Details option within the Public Notification page now shows 'No instructions entered’ when:

• the relevant authority is nominated to place the sign on land
• the applicant is placing the sign on land and the relevant authority has provided no placement instructions, or
• the sign on land is not required.

Public Notification Consultation

As part of the Department’s ongoing commitment to improve the state’s planning system with enhancements, a new redesigned Public Notification solution within the PlanSA ePlanning system was released on 26 August 2021.

The redesign of this end-to-end solution was in response to insightful and valuable feedback received from working in close collaboration with the system's end-users and key stakeholders and delivers a range of benefits to councils, applicants and the community where they are notified of development.

The following step-by-step guides are available from: PlanSA – Support Library – Assess an application consent > Public Notification.

Improvement to the ‘Your Application –for Your Action’ tab

• Now shows the Action details and clock with the number of days remaining to complete the action.
• The Days clock has been updated to show the days remaining for verification, assessment or development approval.
• The Days clock now shows a ‘paused’ icon with days remaining at the time the clock was paused.

Improvement to the ‘Your Application  - Under Assessment’ tab

• Updated the Status to show the consent applicable, i.e. Planning and Land Division Consent, Planning Consent, and Building Consent. For example: Assessment in progress (Planning Consent).
• Status now shows as ‘Verification in Progress’ instead of 'Assessment in Progress’ when an application’s subsequent consent is going through verification.
• The Days clock has been updated to show the days remaining for verification, assessment or development approval.
• The Days clock now shows a ‘paused’ icon with days remaining as at the time the clock was paused.
• An application showing a grey Days clock with a dash ‘–‘ indicates an action must be completed by the applicant, e.g. make payment of the verification lodgement fees, to start the assessment clock for (planning, planning and land division, and building)

Improvements to the Current notified developments register and submission

• A new search field to find a notified development by property address, council name or application identification number.
• New capability to sort tables to show the current notified developments in order of Application ID, Applicant name, Property Address, Nature of Development and Close Date.
• The new solution on public notification has been updated with a new look and feel, which will only show for public notification applications initiated in the new public notification solution and will include the following new features:
  • map viewer showing the property location and the ability to open the South Australian Property and Planning Atlas (SAPPA) to view zoning and other layers for this location
  • link to the current policies that apply to the notified property location
  • link to view more application details from the development application register
  • 3-step submission form: step 1: contact details, step 2: submission details, and step 3: supporting documents.

Reporting now shows Nature of Development

The Nature of Development now shows in the following reports.

Council

• Planning Consent
• Building Consent
• Land Division Consent
• Planning and Land division C

Workload Analysis

• End of operative period
• Public Notification signage
• Home builder DA
• Active allocations

Inspections Council

• Inspection register
• Practice Direction 8
• Practice Direction 9

Building Team

• Building team
• Builder

Report name updated

The following Council report names now read as follows:

• DA report is now Development Applications.
• Planning C is now Planning Consent.
• Building C is now Building Consent.

Land Division C is now Land Division Consent.

Update Public Notification indicator

The ‘Public Notification’ indicator has been changed to Yes or No within the Council – Planning Consent report.

Location available

A 'Location' column now shows under the consent table within the Council – Planning and Land Division report and Council – Land Division Consent report.

Nature of Development and Development cost available

Include the ‘Nature of Development’ and ‘Development cost’ within the Council – Zones Report.

Legend added to reports with a Map

A Legend now shows for map visuals within the Council – Development Application report and Consents Report.

Council development number and location available

‘Development Number’ for transitional development applications and ‘Location’ of the development within the Council – Development Application Report have been included.

Update the Council report order

The order of the Council reports has been changed to show the Accessibility report after the Land Division Consent report.

Filter by consent and assessor

The ability to filter by one or multiple ‘Consent Type/s’ and filter by one or multiple ‘Allocated Assessor/s’ is now available within the Council – Consents report.

Filter by multiple data types

The ability to filter by one or many options is now available across all reports.

Updated source of the estimated development cost

The Council – Numbers report estimated development cost is now derived from the estimated development cost at decision not submission.

Spelling correction

Spelling correction of the counter label 'Total Estimated development cost’ within the Council – Numbers report.

Filter defaults to lodged

The Application Stage filter now defaults to 'Lodged' for the following reports.

Council Report

• Development applications
• Performance DA
• Performance RA/Consents
• Elements
• Zones
• Accessibility

Report moved

The Council – Statistics report data can has been moved the suite of Council reports.

Location address available

In the report table and visualisations (e.g. graphs and dials) the exportable underlying Data now includes the Location addresses – with the exception of the following reports.

Council

• Performance RA/Consents
• Zones
• Planning Consent
• Building consent
• Planning and Land Division Consent

Indicator

• Fee report
• Consents Granted vs refused
• Planning consents
• Building Consents
• Planning and Land Division Consents
• Land Division Consents

Workload Analysis

• Relevant Authority Reason

Filter by consent stage and date

A Consent Stage filter has been added to enable filtering by Awaiting Verification, Granted, In verification, or under assessment within the following reports.

Council Report

• Planning Consent
• Building Consent
• Planning and Land Division Consent
• Land Division Consent

Important! If a Planning or Building Consent verification is in 'draft' then the 'Swimming Pool' fee is shown under the Compliance tab of the Fee Request screen.

• The 'Business Name' field is now above the 'Street Address' fields, and is a mandatory field.
• The wording ‘Please provide a work or home address' has been removed.
• The wording 'This address will appear on the Accredited Professionals Public Register' is now above the Business Name field.

Noting, downloading multiple documents is currently not available within the Verify Documentation page during verification.

1. The notification ‘required on’ now uses radio buttons for options ‘Commencement’ and ‘Completion’.
2. New ‘Building Work’ notification with ‘Notification required on’ set to default as ‘Completion’. ‘Business days’ notification’ set to default as 1.
3. The notification 'Statement of Compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work' now defaults from ‘Notification required on’ to 'Completion'.
4. ‘Installation of a designated building product on a designated building’ has been removed and now appears under ‘Removed Default Notifications’ with an ‘include’ option for adding the notification.

‘Provision of a completed supervisor’s checklist relating to the installation of the designated building product’ has been removed and now appears under ‘Removed Default Notifications’ with an ‘include’ option for adding the notification.

1. Building stage ‘Building Work’ with Notification required on ‘Completion’ defaults to 1 day.
2. Building stage ‘Statement of Compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work’ with Notification required on ‘Completion’ defaults to 1 day.
3. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Commencement’ defaults to 1 day within metropolitan Adelaide and 2 days outside metropolitan Adelaide.
4. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Completion’ show 1 business day irrespective of the development location (i.e. within or outside of metropolitan Adelaide).

Additional building stage/s notifications added by an Accredited Professional (as the relevant authority) defaults to 1 day irrespective of the development location (i.e. within or outside of metropolitan Adelaide).

1. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Commencement’ defaults to 1 day within metropolitan Adelaide and 2 days outside metropolitan Adelaide.
2. Additional building stage/s that require notification on ‘Completion’ show 1 business day irrespective of the development location, i.e. within or outside of metropolitan Adelaide.
3. Additional building stage/s notifications added by an Accredited Professional as the relevant authority defaults to 1 day irrespective of the development location, i.e. within or outside metropolitan Adelaide.

1. New Transitional Consent column showing ‘Yes’ or ‘No’
2. New Transitional Consent filter with a ‘No’ default
3. Addition of the ‘Assessment Panel’ type to the Assessor filter
4. New Development Category column

Relevant Authority column now shows Assessment Manager at <council name>, Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel> or Regional Assessment Panel at <RAP>.

The Relevant Authority filter and the table column 'Relevant Authority' within the Council Report - Planning C report now shows the relevant authority:

• Assessment Manager at <council name>
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel>
• Regional Assessment Panel at <RAP>.

1. Click on the ‘Pay with credit card’ link below to pay by credit card through BPOINT. The link will open in a new tab.
2. Please keep both tabs open until the payment has completed.
3. Once the payment is complete, return to this tab and click Done.

• Renamed the 'Section 7' screen name to Section 7 Data Service.
• Renamed the Download Section 7 Data Extract to Download Data Extract for Section 7.
• Renamed the download file name from Section 7 to Data extract for Section 7.

• Renamed the Section 7 Report to now read 'Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes'.
• Removed the Zone Overlay codes; e.g. O0306 Affordable Housing now reads as Affordable Housing..
• Removed the Zones codes; e.g. Z4201 N Neighbourhood now reads as Neighbourhood.
• Removed PID reference from the GIS Dataset section.
• Renamed Associated Building Insurance heading to Associated Building Indemnity Insurance.

• Edit application contacts (applicant, primary contact, land owner or invoice contact).
• Add contacts for applicant, land owner or builder.
• An applicant and/or land owner contact can only be deleted when multiple contacts exist; except when the contact is a builder then the delete option is available regardless of the number of contacts.
• Any additions, edits or updates are recorded in the ‘Event History’ of the Development application and the contact is notified via the preferred method (email or post).

“As public notification is required, the Relevant Authority has been updated to the Assessment Panel at <council name> or <Regional Assessment Panel name>”.

Noting, if the answer is changed to ‘No’ the Relevant Authority is not automatically updated to 'Assessment Manager at <council name> or <Regional Assessment Panel name>".

To update the appropriate Relevant Authority from rom within the Summary tab for the Planning Consent, update the Relevant Authority Reason to 'Assessment Manager - Section 96 - Performance Assessed'.

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

• Assessment Manager at <council name> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - DTS shows
• Assessment Manager at <council name> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - performance assessed
• Assessment Panel at <council name> when reason is Assessment Panel - Section 93
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - DTS
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel> when reason is Assessment Manager - Section 96 - Performance Assessed
• Regional Assessment Panel at <Regional Assessment Panel> when reason is Assessment Panel - Section 93

• Assessment Manager at <council name>
• Assessment Panel at <council name>
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel>
• Regional Assessment Panel at <Regional Assessment Panel>.

• Assessment Manager at <council name>
• Assessment Panel at <council name>
• Assessment Manager at <Regional Assessment Panel>
• Regional Assessment Panel at <Regional Assessment Panel>.

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

• Class 1
• Swimming Pools
• Class 10 > $10,000
• Class 10 < $10,000
• Classes 2-9
• Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Fee
• Urban Tree Fund Fee

"The Electronic Lodgement fee should only be charged once, and must be charged on the first consent to be issued through the Portal. Please review the payment history beforehand to ensure the Electronic Lodgement fee is not charged twice."

• The ability to record the applicant's decision to pay into the Urban Tree Canopy Off-set Scheme or opt-in to retain existing trees/plant new trees.
• The ability to record the soil type.

• Building Envelope Plan (BEP) Fee – is calculated with a base rate of $175 plus $16 for each allotment defined under the BEP Fee and is distributed to the Land Division Consent Authority
• Publication of Building Envelope Plan Fee – is standardised to $200 and is distributed to the Chief Executive (same as the Electronic Lodgement Fee).

Note: GST is not applicable to these fees.

• New Reason: ‘Relevant Authority (Home Builder DA)’ is selectable for the question ‘Are you an appropriate Relevant Authority for this planning consent’.
• New error message: ‘Home Builder DA application can only be made for New Housing or Dwelling alteration or addition elements. Any other elements needs to be assessed under a separate application.’
• The error message shows when the development application has elements selected outside of ‘New Housing’ and ‘Dwelling Alteration or Addition’, e.g. veranda, carport or garage.
• New Category of Development (Home Builder DA) is selectable only for elements – ‘Dwelling alteration or addition’ and ‘New Housing’.

Note: The Building Consent and Development Approval functionality is unchanged.

• Conditions and Notes within each Consent (Planning, Planning and Land Division, Land Division, building)
• Saved Conditions and Notes page within the Your Organisation dashboard.

• email address for notifications
• checkbox option for users to opt in for 'use same as organisation email'.

Postal address as an additional address option.

• accordions now close when changing sections
• functionality now anchors to the relevant section within a selected accordion.

• 'Did you mean' search functionality, if the spelling input within the search bar is incorrect.
• The word ‘help’ now provides the system support page as the first search result.
• Entering in an application number and/or address will bring up a separate search and take the user to the  Development Application Register.

• Building works with one or more Class 1s and associated inspections is reflected in 'Building Class 1' chart.
• Building works with one or more - Class 2-9s or multiple Class 1s and Class 2-9s - and the associated inspections is reflected in the 'Building Class 2-9' chart.

• 'street address' where an applicant can view the application documentation in person
• details of the relevant authority that assessed the application (email address and postal address). When the development location is within a Regional Assessment Panel (RAP) the details of the council associated with the development location will display.

• display the name and street address of the council associated with the development location when a Regional Assessment Panel (RAP) is assessing the application
• display the name and street address of the relevant authority assessing the application.

• Inpsections Compliance dashboard to track the number of inspections completed versus the percentage required in Practice Direction 8 and 9.
• Inspections Register shows a listing of completed and pending inspections, including infographics for Inspection status, Inspection Status of building notifications, Number of inspections by building classification and Inspection outcome.
• Adhoc Inspections shows a listing of completed and pending inspections, including infographics for Inspection status, Number of inspections by building classification and Inspection outcome.
• Inspection Location graphically showcases the location of completed and pending inspections, number of inspections performed by an inspector, and a percentage breakdown by inspection outcome i.e. not recorded, unsatisfactory, satisfactory.

• who undertook the inspection (inspected by)
• inspection date and time
• elements inspected
• breaches, issues or faults
• rectification required (only displays when Inspection outcome is unsatisfactory)
• requirements for re-inspection (only displays when Inspection outcome is unsatisfactory and Rectification Required checked (i.e. tick box)).

• search for pending or completed inspections
• view pending inspections
• record inspection outcomes.

1. Council Report (New)
2. Work Load Analysis Reports
   • Relevant Authority Reason Report
   • End of Operative Date Report
   • Mandatory Building Notifications Report

• Numbers shows council’s year to date development application statistics.
• DA shows on a map and table the Development Applications lodged.
• Consents shows on a map and table the number of consents.
• Accessibility shows applicant lodging applications behaviour; what days of the week and time of day.
• Performance DAs shows number of days to make a decision.
• Performance Consents shows average days taken by consent type.
• Elements shows on a map and graph the elements assessed.
• Zones shows a types of applications, i.e. Crown, Essential Infrastructure, Exempt, Impact Assessed, Code Assessed and Accepted broken down by zones.
• Planning Consents shows total number of planning consents.
• Building Consents shows total number of building consents.
• Land Division Consents shows total number of land division consents.
• Planning and Land Division Consents shows total number of planning and land division consents.
• Statistics shows development application statistics and responses for further information.

DAP Log-in

When you login to the PlanSA portal you will now see four login options that are applicable to what you want to do in the portal. They are:

• I want to lodge, manage or track my application
• I work as a Relevant Authority
• I work for a Referral Agency
• I want to review my Accredited Professional status

Workload Analysis Report

Workload Analysis Report for Relevant Authorities containing three reporting tabs:

Relevant Authority Reason Report displays a list of consents currently under assessment by Relevant Authority.

End of Operative Period Report displays a list of applications with consents that have reached the end of their operative period.

Mandatory Building Notifications Report displays a list of building notifications grouped by stage and then building / building work requiring an inspection.

Building Class 7 now split into two class categories:

• Class 7a: Carpark
• Class 7b: Building that is used for storage or display of goods or for wholesale produce.