Release notes 2022

Reserved Matters – Resolve Reserved Matter(s) Tasks and Actions

The following functionality improvement have bene made to the Resolve Reserved Matters process:

• Creation of a task for the applicant to respond to reserved matter(s)
• Ability for the Relevant Authority for Planning Consent to mark an applicant’s response to a reserved matter as ‘Not Met’, add a comment, and send back to the applicant for further action.

Introduction of notification emails to the applicant and Relevant Authority when a reserved matter(s) has been responded to or has been considered.

Power BI Council Area Report - Enhancements

The following enhancements have been made to the Council Area Report:

• SPC filter added to Authority Type Hierarchy.
• All relevant Allocated Assessors now show for the Relevant Authority (as default).
• A definition for ‘decided’ on the application Metrics (Applications Dashboard) has been added.
• The third ‘export option’ (disused) has been removed.

Development Cost at the Consent Level (underlying data) has been added.

Archived Report

The following reports have been archived from PowerBI:

• DAP Dashboard

The information that was available in this report can now be accessed in the annual Performance Indicators Report.

PowerBI Report Navigation Update

PowerBI reports are segmented into the following sections for ease of use:

• Dashboard
• Relevant Authority Reports (Information in these report(s) relate only to the Relevant Authority)
• Council Area Reports (Information in these report(s) relate to the Council Area regardless as to which Relevant Authority assessed the consent)
• Other Reports

New fee - Review of Assessment Manager Decision

A new Review of Assessment Manager Decision invoice fee is now available.

This fee can be charged by the Council on a Consent while the assessment is in progress via ‘Determine Additional Fees’ or after a decision via ‘Determine Additional Fees Post Decision’.

New DAP Report - Payment Summary Report

The Payment Summary Report is a new report available to Volume Applicant Organisations and Private Certifiers.

This report provides a summary of the payment information and invoice details for the development applications which the organisation has submitted into the PlanSA system, and includes the following fields:

• Application Id
• Payment Description
• Invoice Status
• Date of Payment
• Mode of Payment

Users can filter data in the report by invoice status, payment date and mode of payment, and the report can also be exported as an Excel document.

Within the Internal Referral Assigned report, the tickbox which previously appeared as "Response: Is Null" has been replaced with a tickbox which reads: "Show referral requests with no response".

When this tickbox is selected, internal referrals which have not been responded to, will also appear on the report.

Event Audit Record - Swimming Pool or Swimming Pool Safety Features or Farm Building or Farm Shed inspections

The following improvements have been made to the Event Audit records created for inspection options 'Swimming Pool or Swimming Pool Safety Features' or 'Farm Building or Farm Shed' which are added or changed during building assessment and development approval:

• The action Building Notification Submitted, now reads: Council_Building_Work_Inspection
• The description ‘Building notifications have been submitted’, now reads 'Swimming pool or safety features inspection' or 'Farm building or farm shed inspection'
• Details now include 'was' and 'now', e.g. Swimming pool or swimming pool safety features inspection was required - now not required for the applicable building work name.

Council Area Report

The Development Trends Report has been renamed to the Council Area Report.

The following updates to the report have been implemented:

• A new dashboard has been added including information related to ‘Consents’ within the Council Area
• A filter has been included providing the option to include or exclude ‘transitional’ applications / consents for analysis
• Definitions have been updated accordingly.

Archived – Council Numbers

The existing Council Report ‘Numbers’ has been archived, and the information can now be accessed via the abovementioned ‘Council Area Report’.

DAP Report – Further Information Requests (RFIs)

The Further Information Requests (RFIs) report now includes an ‘Allocated Assessor’ column.

When an RFI is issued by a relevant authority, the report will show the user allocated to the consent.

When a referral body issues an RFI, the ‘Allocated Assessor’ column in the report will show the user allocated to the referral.

Section 7 Data Extract – Building Indemnity Insurance

Further refinements have been made to the formatting of Section 7 data extracts, in relation to Building Indemnity Insurance information.

• The heading “Associated Building Indemnity Information” will now show under all Building Consents – except where the consent is shown to be ‘Still Required’.
• The heading will now also be displayed in the instance that building indemnity insurance is ‘Not yet Provided’ or ‘Not Applicable’.

Workload Management Report

The following updates have been implemented into the Workload Management report:

• A new page has been added to the Workload Management Report – ‘Assessment Timeframe’ for consents.
• Regional Assessment Panel (RAP) users can now access information in the report, when the RAP is the relevant authority. · Development Approval Timeframes can now be filtered by Suburb & Element.

Workload Management Report

Consents which are assessed by the State Planning Commission will now show in the report.

The Underlying Data for Consents has been updated, to ensure the correct applications are shown within a selected date range.

Archived Reports

The following reports have been archived from PowerBI:

• Elements
• Zones
• Accessibility

The information which was available in these reports can now be accessed via the Development Trends Report.

DAP Report – Further information requests (RFIs)

The Further Information Requests (RFIs) report enables relevant authorities (including referral bodies) to manage In-Progress, Pending-Review and Expired requests for information.

Consent decision - Request for Information expiry

A decision for an application consent is now allowed for an expired Request for Information (RFI) where no response has been made by the applicant.

External Referral - enable Request for Information

A referral body with multiple referral requests with different response types can now initiate a ‘Request for Information ‘on each request.

Request for Information - consent and referral body assessment clocks

The referral body's assessment clock will now remain 'active' when the relevant authority initiates a Request for Information.

The relevant authority assessment clock will be 'paused' when there is 'active' Request for Information initiated by a single or multiple referral body. Only when all 'active' referral bodies requests for information are completed (i.e., the RFI response evaluated, performed and confirmed with the required information provided) will the relevant authorities assessment clock become 'active'; unless the relevant authority has their own 'active' Request for Information, in which case  the assessment clock will remain 'paused.

NEW - Section 7 data extract report - Revised Development Application and Conditions format

A revised format for data extracts has been introduced. The following changes have been made:

• Conditions are now listed under the related Development Application number, nature of development and applicant details.
• Conditions are ordered by Consent and reflect the order on the Decision Notification Form.
• Development Authorisations that have been applied for but not granted are identified as “Still Required”.
• Building Indemnity Insurance details are listed by application.
• General formatting changes.

DAP Report - active variations

The Allocated Assessor field is 'blank' when the consent being varied was not issued by the relevant authority running the Active Variations report, e.g. accredited professional, State Planning Commission.

The Allocated Assessor field shows 'Unallocated' or the 'Assessor's name' when the consent being varied was issued by the relevant authority running the report.

DALite - advanced search updates

The following statuses are now available from the 'By Consent Status' advanced search filter:

• Awaiting Payment
• On hold (Reg 45 Referral to Commission (Building committee))
• Awaiting Further Information

DALite

The Filter by Document Type field and now includes document types:

1. Fee Advice
2. Tax Invoice
3. Invoice Receipt
4. Refund Advice
5. Combined Representations
6. Final Sign on land
7. Public Notification Document
8. Request for Information
9. Verification Outcome

PowerBI Development Trends Report

The following changes have been implemented into the Development Trends Report:

• Added Application Dashboard
• Transitional Filter (Include or Exclude Transitional Applications for Analysis)
• Report Optimization
• Increased Top trends from 50 to 100

PowerBI Workload Management Report

The Workload Management Report has been optimised and updated. It now includes a new page for Assessment Timeframes, an additional tile on the Consent Pages for ‘total verifications', and an additional tile on the Workload Analysis Page for ‘decisions out of time’ (including drill down).

It also includes branding updates to the Report template in line with move from Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) to Department of Trade and Investment (DTI).

Consent Internal Referrals

Internal referral functionality has been enabled for consents which are in the 'Awaiting Payment' status after verification.

Required Building Notifications at Development Approval - Delete Building Notification Audit Record

An audit event will be created within the Application - Event Audit History, when during development approval a required building notification/s (predefined and ad hoc) which had previously been added during building consent by a council assessor, is deleted.

Building Notification Email Address

Councils can now specify a Building Notification email address within the Organisation Details page. The email address specified will be the email recipient for submitted building notifications, when an assessor is not allocated to a building consent.

Standard Building Notifications - Edit Group Improvements

The following improvements have been made to the Edit Building Notifications Group page:

• Look and feel changes, the ‘Include Notifications’ and ‘Current Notifications’ sections are now shown side-by-side.
• Notifications included now show in the Current Notifications.
• Ability to sort the current notification display order.
• Ability to remove a current notification and submit.

Required Building Notifications at Building Consent

The following improvements have been made to the Required Building Notifications page:

• Notifications included from the Predefined Notifications now remain in the table, and the INCLUDE button is disabled. INCLUDE is enabled when the notification is removed as a required building notification.
• Where notifications are included from the Notifications Group/s, a 'duplicate item' message is shown to indicate notifications within the group already exist within the Required Notifications table. To enable the group, delete the duplicate notifications from the Required Notifications table.

Public Notification - Cancellation

Public Notifications that are pending commencement or in-progress can now be cancelled. Users can create a subsequent round of public notification without having to wait for the existing round to be completed. Cancelled public notifications will be taken off the 'Have your say' page of the website within one hour.

Public Notification - New

A new public notification cannot be scheduled to begin any sooner than the next business day after the scheduled end date of a current Public Notification.

Assessment Report - Edit Online

Once a consent decision has been made, the ‘Assessment Report’ / ‘Panel Assessment Report’ documents for the consent will no longer be editable online.

Assessment Reports - Technical and Numerical Variations

The ‘Assessment Report’ and the ‘Panel Assessment Report’ will now populate with Technical and Numerical Variations (TNV) related to the location, under the zones and overlays information.

Consent Reassignment

When reassigning a Planning and Land Division Consent from a council to the State Planning Commission, the consent will now be reassigned as one consent (as it is originally) and not split into two - Planning Consent and Land Division Consent.

Reusable Building Notifications - Delete reusable notification

A blank record which was showing in a notification group/s when a reusable notification was removed, has been resolved.

Building Notifications - Standardised individual and group building notifications

Please note: This functionality is now available from Tuesday 4 October 2022.

The Your Organisation menu has a new option called 'Saved Building Notifications', offering the ability to create individual and groups of 'standard' building notifications (currently only available to councils and councils within a Regional Assessment Panel).

The Required Notifications page for a building consent and development approval now includes the option to add predefined building notifications and predefined building notification groups (currently only available to councils and councils within a Regional Assessment Panel).

A building notification added with the ‘+ Add New Notification’ button can now be edited or deleted during development approval, when the precursor building consent was granted by an accredited professional relevant authority. This excludes editing the 'description' of predefined building notifications; changes to the description must be made from the Saved Building Notifications by an Organisation Administrator.

Referral Bodies Report

The Referral Bodies report has been updated to include two additional columns:

• Nature of Development RA.
• Referral Response.

Building Consent - Relevant Authority Reasons

The following relevant authority reasons have been disabled, as building consent is issued by the Council or Accredited Professional as per s99 of the PDI Act.

For Councils and Regional Assessment Panels the following reasons have been disabled and ‘Council - Section 98’ remains as the default relevant authority reason:

• Assessment Manager - Section 96
• Referred to Council - Section 99.

For Accredited Professionals:

• Referred to Accredited Professional - Section 99.

Updated Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes

The Code Amendment section has been removed from the Data extract.

Information relating to Code Amendments that are either on consultation or where consultation has been finalised, is available via the Property Interest Report, through Land Services SA.

DALite – Record External Payment

After a Fee Advice Payment is recorded in DALite, a confirmation message will appear to advise “Payment Recorded Successfully”.

DAP Report – ‘Internal Referral Assigned’

The Internal Referral Assigned DAP report can now be exported to Excel. Three new filters have also been added:

• Consent type
• Application Status
• Consent Status

Consent Relevant Authority - Relevant Authority Reason

The 'reason' for being the appropriate relevant authority is now refined to show reasons only applicable to the relevant authority assessing the consent. This includes:

• Planning consent reason Relevant Authority (Accepted Development) label to now read: 'Accepted Development - Section 104’.
• Removal of reason 'SPC - Other' for all relevant authorities.
• Removal of the following planning consent reasons; 'SPC - Section 110 - Restricted', SPC
• Section 94 - Schedule 7, and 'Minister - Section 95 - Impact' for all relevant authorities.
• Removal of planning and building consent reason 'Accredited Professional - Section 97' for councils and RAPs.
• Removal of building consent reason 'Assessment Panel - Section 93' for all relevant authorities.
• Additional building consent reasons 'Council - Section 98', 'Referred to Council - Section 99' and 'Referral to Accredited Professional - Section 99' added for councils, RAPs and accredited professionals.

The reasons available to each relevant authority type are now as follows:

Council and RAPs

Planning and Land Division

• Accepted Development - Section 104
• Assessment Manager - Section 96 - DTS
• Assessment Manager - Section 96 - Performance Assessed
• Assessment Panel - Section 93
• Relevant Authority (Exempt)
• Relevant Authority (Home Builder DA)

Building

• Assessment Manager - Section 96
• Council - Section 98
• Referred to Council - Section 99

Accredited Professionals

Planning

• Accepted Development - Section 104
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Building Level 1 - DTS
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Land Surveyor - Land Division Planning Consent
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Level 1 Surveyor - DTS
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Level 3 - DTS
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Level 3 - DTS with minor variations
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Level 4 - DTS
• Relevant Authority (Exempt)
• Relevant Authority (Home Builder DA)

Building

• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Building Level 1
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Building Level 2
• Accredited Professional - Section 97 - Building Level 3
• Referred to Accredited Professional - Section 99

State Planning Commission

Planning

• Accepted Development - Section 104
• Designated by Code - Section 94(1)(a)(i)
• Designated by Regs - Section 94(1)(a)(ii)
• Minister - Section 95 - Impact
• Minister appointed (call-in) - Section 94(1)(h)
• Minister appointed SPC - Section 94(1)(g)
• Multiple Authorities - Section 94(1)(d), (e) & (f)
• Out of Council - Section 94(1)(c)
• Relevant Authority (Exempt)
• Relevant Authority (Home Builder DA)
• Restricted - Section 94(1)(b)
• SPC - Other

Building

• Relevant Authority (Building Consent Not Required)

Building Verification - Consent Stages

The following improvements have been made to the Building Verification - Nature and Cost of Development page:

• Ability to indicate building consent is to be assessed in multiple stages.
• Ability to add another stage.

Updated Data Extract for Section 7 search purposes

The Code Amendment section has been reintroduced to the Data Extract and will now include the following questions/information:

• Is there a current amendment to the Planning and Design Code released for public consultation by a designated entity, on which consultation is continuing or on which consultation has ended but whose proposed amendment has not yet come into operation?
• The state-wide Code Amendment "Miscellaneous Technical Enhancements Code Amendment" as static text.
• Inclusion of "Council input required" text to indicate other relevant Code Amendments are to be included.

Consent Related Actions – Additional Fees Post Decision

A new Related Actions option to 'Determine Additional Fees Post Decision' is now available within the Consent (Planning, Planning and Land Division and Land Division Consents).

• Relevant authorities can now invoice a Building Envelope Plan Fee and/or Publishing of Building Envelope Fee.
• State Planning Commission (SPC) can now invoice a Restricted Development Review Fee.

Building Rectification Notification - Builder/Building Owner Contact Details

• When adding a new licensed building work contractor contact or new building owner, the Edit Contact page now defaults with Contact Type 'Builder' or 'Building Owner'.
• The application land owner(s) are now a selectable option from the Building Owner field.
• The 'building owner' contact information now shows 'building owner', e.g. Building Owner Name, Building Owner Address, etc.

PowerBI - Development Trends Report

A new Development Trends Report has been developed to allow councils to identify the top development trends within their Council Area and extract the underlying data.

The report utilises the following dynamic filters:

• Consent Type
• Consent Status
• Category of Development
• Suburb
• Zone
• Subzone
• Overlay
• Refined Element
• Submission/Lodgement/Decision Application Dates
• Number of Development Trends displayed (1- 50, Default 25).

DALite - Fee Advice

The Fee Advice record now shows a GST breakdown:

• Amount (exc. GST)
• GST
• The total Amount (inc. GST).

DAP Report Inspection Status

The following updates have been made to the DAP Inspection Status report:

• Builder's Name updated to read 'Notification Provided By' and now shows the name of the builder or building owner who submitted the building notification.
• Notification for building rectification notifications now shows 'Rectification of' followed by the rectification details (e.g. issues, breaches, or faults).
• Data activity for building rectification notifications now shows NA (not applicable).

New column 'Rectification Required' indicating Yes or No for an unsatisfactory inspection.

Building Rectification Notifications

The ‘Submit Building Rectification Notifications’ and ‘Rectification Notifications’ was previously known as ‘Submit Mandatory Re-inspection Notification’ and ‘Reinspection Notifications.’

Enhancements have been made and includes:

• ability for builders/owner builders to provide a comment and upload documents when responding to a rectification notification.
• new ‘Building Rectifications’ section within the Notifications & Inspections page for applicants and Notifications page for relevant authorities.
• updated notification descriptions for Rectification inspections now shows the rectification details, e.g., Rectification of the location of fire extinguishers.

Decision Notification Form – Content Updates

Updates to the DNF includes:

• removal of the hard-coded advisory notes
• an additional location description field
• an update to the building advisory notes to reflect date changes to the certificate of occupancy requirements for Class 1a buildings.

PlanSA Accredited Professionals Register

With the inclusion of Automatic Mutual Recognition (AMR) for SA professionals from 1 July 2022, the Accredited Professionals Register has been updated to include:

• The ability to search the register using an AMR notification number
• The addition of 'Notification' to the ‘Registration Number’ column, so that it now reads ‘Registration / Notification Number’
• An Accreditation Anniversary Date

Webpage links to search the applicable State or Territory register for viewing qualifications, level(s), conditions, plus experience and skills.

Building Notification – inspection comment

When indicating Yes or No to inspect a building notification a ‘comment’ can now be added.

The comment can be viewed from the Building Notification Details, Inspections 'Pending' table (Yes to inspect) and the 'Completed' Inspection record (No to inspect).

Request for information - updates

Layout updates to the Further Information Request table, includes:

• column order change now reads as Consent, Requested By, Requested Date, Due Date, Response Date (new), Request Document and Action(s)
• Expiry Date now reads as Due Date.
• new Response Date field will show (pending) when awaiting evaluation of the response and remain showing, until all requested information has been provided.

new action View Decision History will provide a history of the RFI requests and the evaluation response.

Certificate of Occupancy (CoO) for 1A is not required until 1 January 2024

New ’31 December 2023‘ date has been updated within the Building or Building Work question ’If the building is completed after 31 December 2023, who will the Certificate of Occupancy be issued by?’ – this only applies for Class 1A building or building work.

New data range '16 December 2021 and 31 December 2023' has been updated in the information box located in the Create Certificate of Occupancy page.

The Application & Consent page banner now includes the location address. For example:

• Single location show: Planning Consent - 22000001 - 50 Flinders Street, Adelaide
• Multiple locations show: Building Consent - 22000001 - 50 Flinders Street, Adelaide / 51 Flinders Street, Adelaide + 2 more locations

Variation - Not a minor variation letter

Improvements to the letter template, includes:

• Revised attention heading now reads ‘Application – Variation Request – New application required’
• Inclusion of the variation request ‘details’ provided by the applicant
• Inclusion of the proposed development (i.e. Nature of Development).

The ‘Application – Variation Request – New application required’ letter is now attached to the Variation Request Denied email notification.

The following contact types are now selectable options from the Contact Type field drop-down within the Edit Contact page.

• Building Certifier
• Building Owner
• Owner’s Agent
• Registered Building Work Supervisor
•  

Updates made to the Request for Information screen, includes:

• RFI Expiry Date label updated to now read 'RFI Due Date'.
• RFI Due Date now shows the next working day, when falls on a weekend or public holiday.
• Update the Information pane to now read as "Requests for information must have a minimum due date of 60 business days and up to one calendar year, as prescribed in section 119 of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016."

Building Notification –Statement of Compliance Part A and Part B

On the first building/building work commencement building notification, a prompt will now request the following:

• Who is proposed to sign the statement of compliance?
• who is signing Part A (Main building work contractor, or Registered building work supervisor, or Building certifier)and Part B (Owner, or Owner's agent)?

Certificate of Occupancy - Statement of Compliance Part A and Part B

The Certificate validation checklist will show who was nominated from the first building/building work commencement building notification.

This occurs once when a Statement of Compliance (SOC) has been received the signed by Part A (Main building work contractor, or Registered building work supervisor, or Building certifier)and Part B (Owner, or Owner's agent).

Planning and/or Land Division Consent - new referral prompt

During Planning and Land Division Consent and Land Division Consent, any document/s uploaded in the category 'Plans', will trigger the below pop-up message:

"Plans have been uploaded during the Assessment of this consent, please consider if these plans are amended and therefore require any new referrals for consideration".

Additional Documents Upload

Improvements to the Additional Documents page include:

• a 'description' column for document types
• a column showing who uploaded the document and when it occurred
• a column with the decision outcome and the decision date.

Request Application Withdrawal

The following changes have been made to the Request Application Withdrawal page:

• Field Notes to Relevant Authority is now mandatory, the character limit has been changed to 100 from 500.
• Field Document Upload updated to read as Document Upload (Optional)
• The ‘reason for withdrawal’ is now included in the email notification to the applicant, relevant authority and referral bodies.
• An event record is now created for the withdrawal submission and decision.

Determine Additional Fees – Compliance

The following updates have been to the Compliance fees descriptions:

• Class 1 Building (previously read: Class 1)
• Class 10 >$10,000 except for swimming pools (previously read: Class 10 > $10,000)
• Classes 2-9 Buildings (previously read: Classes 2-9)

Determine Additional Fees – Compliance

The following compliance fees are now available within the Determine Additional Fees screen for accredited professionals (building certifiers):

• 'Class 1 Building',
• 'Class 10 > $10,000 except for swimming pools
• 'Classes 2-9 Buildings'.

Building Fee Calculation

New functionality now enables the building assessment – class fees to be calculated on development cost per planning element and build classification rather than the Total Development Cost.

Includes new functions:

• Applicants can now enter an estimated development cost per planning element in the ‘What do you want to do?’ page in the Development Application section.
• The ‘Nature of Development’ page is now called the ‘Nature and Cost of Development’.
• A new Development Cost breakdown table has been added within the Nature and Cost of Development page, during Planning and Building Verification - for the council relevant authority.
• A new editable field ‘Total Development Cost’ has been added within the Nature and Cost of Development page, during Planning and Building Verification – for both councils and accredited professional relevant authorities.
• A new Development Cost section has been added within the Fees page for all consents and development approval, and shows either the 'Development Cost' breakdown table or the 'Total Development Cost' field – determined by the assessing or development approval relevant authority.

Organisation Message

The organisation message functionality now allows councils to communicate key messages that may prompt an application’s contact to visit the council office and/or co-located community facilities.

It includes two additional fields within the Organisation Details page:

• Organisation Message a 200 character field to enter a message
• Message Reference Link field to enter a web-link.

When set-up, the message will populate within pre-defined types of communication including emails, fee advice and tax invoices, and public notification letters.

Mandatory Building Notifications – Update building contact details

New look and feel for the Submit Mandatory Building Notifications screen, which includes the ability to:

• indicate who is submitting the notification; i.e., licensed building work contract or Building Owner
• select the Licensed building work contract/Building owner from the application contacts list
• add a new Licensed building work contract/Building owner and contact created and available from the application contacts list
• reflect the contact details of whoever is providing the notification; e.g. Licensed building work will show the 'Builder's Name' or a Building Owner will show the 'Building Owner's Name'

Inspection Details – Building notification activity date

The building notification 'Date of Activity' now shows in the Inspections Details screen.

Inspection Details – Edit activity date

The building notification 'Date of Activity' is now editable within the Inspection Details page.

An email is sent to the applicant and builder advising the 'Date of Activity’ change.

Once the inspection outcome is recorded the date cannot be edited.

Building Consent - Required Notifications Statement of Compliance

Updated the Required Notifications page for building or building works classed as 10A and / or 10B and includes:

• Removal of the default notification ‘Statement of compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work’.
• Added the Removed default notifications the ‘Statement of compliance and other documents required to be provided at the completion of building work’ notification.
• Hidden the 'List below any additional certificates ...' comments box.

Building Notification – Edit activity date

The building notification 'Date of Activity' is now editable prior to an inspection being completed.

An email is sent to the applicant and builder advising the 'Date of Activity’ change.

Once the inspection outcome is recorded the date cannot be edited.

The 'Verification completed' email now advises the applicant:

• on payment of the fee advice the assessment of the consent will commence and a decision issued on completion
• all consents are to be assessed and development approval granted before development can commence.

Updated online forms to allow first name and last names that include an apostrophe and/or hyphen.

• Register yourself
• Register your organisation
• Become an accredited professional
• Public feedback form
• PlanSA planning system support
• Request a change to the Code

Public Notification event record

An event record is created in the Event History tab of the development application when the Public Notification is:

• Closed by the assessor when a new round of consultation is initiated.
  Event record created: Public Consultation <dates> has been cancelled. New round of consultation initiated.
• Closed by the assessor when a new round of consultation is closed using the 'Close Consultation' option.
  Event record created: Public consultation <dates> has closed.
• Closed by the batch process.
  Event record created: Public consultation <dates> period has ended.
• Cancelled by the assessor when public notification is not required.
  Event record created: The relevant authority has determined public consultation to be unnecessary.
• Cancelled by the assessor by initiating 'Cancel Public Notification'.
  Event record created: Public consultation <dates> has been cancelled by the relevant authority.

The Essential Safety Provision (ESP) Form 3 has been updated to include the following direction statement:

“This form is an approved form for the purposes of regulations 94(11) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017.

For the purposes of the annual Form 3, its return is due within 60 business days after the end of the 2021 calendar year.

The Form 3 certificate in Schedule 16 of the repealed Development Regulations 2008 is also an approved form for the purposes of regulation 94(11) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Form 3 certificate in Schedule 16 of the repealed Development Regulations 2008 will not be an approved form for the purposes of regulation 94(11) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017 for any annual Form 3 return due more than 60 business days after the end of the 2021 calendar year.”

The building notification 'Statement of Compliance’ and other documents required at the completion of building work notification has been removed as a default notification for Class 10A building work/works.

Should you need/require to include or add the notification, it is still available in the ‘Removed default notifications’ list.

Referral Response Type

For referral requests to the Chief Executive of the Department or the Minister responsible for the administration of the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 –the following referral response type wording will now reads as:

• 9(3)(12) – Activities that would otherwise require permit under Landscape South Australia Act 2019 that may impact on water resources.
• 9(3)(13) – Activities that may give rise to water allocation issues under Landscape South Australia Act 2019 that involve the taking of water.

A maximum file size of 50MB per document applies when uploading public inspection documents when initiating a public notification (in step 1).

The maximum file size advice (‘Maximum file size 50MB per document’) is indicated in the ‘Information’ and ‘Upload’ sections within Public Notification.

Public inspection documents exceeding the file size limit will be highlighted with a message showing the file size has been exceeded.

The ‘Local Government Agency (Council/Authority)’ field label has been changed to 'Local Government Area' (Council/Authority)’.

It can be found in the ‘Cannot find the council land or water development location’ section of the ‘Locations’ pages within the ‘Map Search’ option in the application.

Appeals documents

In addition to the existing document types 'Court Decision' and 'S126 Notice to ERDC' the following document types are available from the 'Appeals' document category:

• Application to assessment panel
• Application to State Planning Commission
• Legal Correspondence
• Correspondence – General
• Internal Correspondence
• Panel Agenda Item
• Minutes from the assessment panel
• Decision Notification Form