PlanSA's ePlanning platform is routinely updated to introduce new functionality, enhance the customer experience and address technical issues.
After each update, changes are documented as release notes and published on PlanSA.
PlanSA components
PlanSA's ePlanning platform is made up of different online components:
- PlanSA portal website
- Development Application Processing (DAP) system
- Online Planning and Design Code
- South Australian Property and Planning Atlas (SAPPA)
- Council Financial Report Service
PlanSA is committed to ensuring its ePlanning system is responsive to the needs of its customers.
To view or to check on the status of a current enhancement project, visit the PlanSA system enhancements.
System updates are made fortnightly. After each update, system enhancements are documented as Release Notes and published on PlanSA.
Requests for system enhancements can be submitted to the PlanSA service desk via PlanSA@sa.gov.au.
2024
Power BI
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| Council Area Report | |
Application Dashboard – reconfiguration | An updated version of the Power BI Council Area Report includes cosmetic changes to simplify the presentation and navigation within the report. The Application Dashboard page has been consolidated into two metrics tables, including application status and category. |
Application Dashboard – new features | The Application Dashboard includes the following new features:
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Consent Dashboard | The Consent Dashboard page has been consolidated into two metrics tables containing authority type, category of development and consent. The Consent Dashboard now includes the following new features:
Each table includes existing, proposed and additional allotment numbers and underlying data. |
Contact and Location Details page | The Contact and Location Details page now includes additional columns for the parcel identifier, valuation number and title reference (volume and folio). |
Volume and Individual Applicants (new) | A new page for ‘Volume and Individual Applicants’ includes a summary of applicants within the Council Area and is grouped by ‘volume applicant’ and ‘individual applicant’. |
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Workload Management Report – Development Approval Statistics Page and filter pane | The filter pane will now load when the user is using the Development Approval Statistics Report page. |
DAP
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Fees and charges 2024-2025 financial year | New fees and charges take effect on 1 July 2024 as published on 6 June 2024 in the South Australian Government Gazette notice. |
Land division certificate menu for council | A land division certificate menu is now available for council relevant authorities. The menu is in the menu ribbon of the Development Application Processing system, between the ‘assessments’ and ‘your applications’ menu. The new menu provides information for all land division certificate applications and the respective status within the council area. |
Withdraw application and cancel an authorisation | Enhancements to the ‘Request Application Withdrawal’ and ‘Request Authorisation Cancellation’ processes were made, including:
the following authorities are advised by email of a cancellation: authority for each consent granted, authority for development approval and referral bodies who have responded to a request. Latest version |
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Accredited Professional Assessment Fee Report(s) | Accredited Professional Assessment Fee Reports are now back online and available to provide a live count of consents assessed in the Development Application Processing (DAP) system, with the estimated cost based on their defined period. The report for individual Accredited Professionals is available from the Accredited Professional Portal, and the report for Accredited Professional organisations is available in the DAP system. |
Certificate of Occupancy – uploading documents for corresponding building work | When applying for a Certificate of Occupancy or responding to a Certificate of Occupancy 'Request for Documentation' and uploading supporting documents, users can now allocate a specific building work to ‘Statement of Compliance’ document types. This is applicable for document categories: 'Building documents’ and ‘Occupancy documents’. |
Incorrect fee description for applicable payment to the Urban Tree Fund | The information box for Urban Tree Fund replacement tree fees has been updated. The information box is now dynamic to reflect the applicable fee based on the submission date of the application. |
DAP
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Receipt page | A receipt number is now available on the receipts page when a credit card payment is successful. When a credit card payment is unsuccessful, the transaction record includes information returned by the bank. |
Additional documentation and referral consideration | When a relevant authority accepts documentation uploaded by the applicant including ‘proposed plans of division’ or ‘survey plan’ (in relation to a Planning or Planning and Land Division Consent) the system will:
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New ‘operative dates’ tab available | A new ‘operative dates’ tab has been added to development applications and is visible to relevant authorities and applicants. The operative dates tab shows all:
An extension of time request can be made from this page. |
Extension of time request | Enhancements have been made to the extension of time user interface and workflow. The extension of time request form seeks additional information from the applicant. The applicant is required to include the reason for the request and can upload supporting documentation. The applicant and relevant authorities for the application have visibility of any extension of time request and its progress status. The extension of time workflow provides greater functionality and flexibility, including the ability to:
Latest version |
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ESP Form 2 – update to regulation reference | The ESP Form 2 template has been updated to reference ‘regulation 104’ instead of ‘regulation 109’, as follows:
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Statistic information for Class 10B swimming pools | Applications containing only Class 10B development will only require building classification details on the Development Approval Statistics Page, instead of during the consent assessment (building component and supplementary information details). Latest version |
DAP
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Accredited Professional Fee Report | The Accredited Professional Fee Report (APFR) is now available at an organisational level through the ‘reporting’ page (accessible from the ‘assessments’ homepage). The APFR report includes all decisions made by all accredited professionals within the organisation and is accessible to all users in the organisation. The APFR available for individual accredited professionals remains available through the Accredited Professional Portal. Both versions of the APFR incorporate additional search fields, allowing users to filter by accredited professional, application ID and date range for the recorded decision. The APFR has been updated to include:
If you have any queries regarding this or any other enhancement identified in the release notes, please contact the PlanSA service desk at planSA@sa.gov.au or call 1800 752 664. |
External Refund Transactions | Ability to record external refund transactions processed through Basware. Following the South Australian Government transition to a new banking provider (ANZ), specific refund transactions in DAP will require action by State Planning Commission Planning Services (SPCPS), referred to as ‘external refund’ transactions. External refund transactions are required for the following applications:
From 1 June 2024, all refund transactions in relation to applications processed via BPOINT will require an external refund. |
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Land Division Applications (Leases) | Applications that seek land division consent for leases no longer require information to be entered in fields for the number of existing allotments and proposed allotments. |
Certificate of Occupancy page | Removed a link appearing on council and SPC Certificate of Occupancy pages to "add from your application contacts" as that link is not functional for those users. |
PlanSA portal
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Subscribe to be Notified – Applications on Notice | Users can now subscribe to receive alerts for development applications that have commenced public notification within a specified council area(s) and suburb(s). |
Public Register – Application public notification status updates | The public notification status for an application will now provide additional information on whether public notification has been determined, not applicable, not required or required with progression updates. The following provides a breakdown of each of the statuses and when they are shown. (Note, not available for Crown applications on consultation.)
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PowerBI
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Refunds Report | The following additional information has been added to the existing Power BI Refunds Report to display external refund outcomes:
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PowerBI
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Workload Management Report (Workload Analysis) | The Public Notification tile has been updated to include 'active' public notifications. The tile now includes the number of 'completed' and 'active' public notifications with a public notification commencement date within the date range specified. The tile total excludes ‘cancelled’ public notifications, where a notification commenced and was subsequently cancelled. Note: the cancelled records can still be found in the tile underlying data. |
DAP
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Urban Tree Canopy Offset Scheme - Update to Fees | Fees payable under the Urban Tree Canopy Offset Scheme (section 197 of the PDI Act 2016) and for the killing, destruction or removal of a regulated or significant tree (section 127(4) and (6) of the PDI Act 2016) have been updated to reflect the Ministerial Fee Notice on 16 May 2024. |
PowerBI
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Council Performance Indicators Report (NEW) | A new Council Performance Indicators Scheme Report has been created providing councils with an annual report measuring applications lodged, decisions made and assessment timeframes. The report follows the State Planning Commission Performance Indicators Scheme summarising data obtained from the Development Assessment Processing (DAP) system and a comparison with previous reporting years. The Council Performance Indicator Report relates to data for the 2022-2023 financial year. The report will be updated annually, coinciding with the release of the State Performance Indicators. |
| Workload Management Report | |
Workload Analysis Public Notification Tile | Update – the Public Notification tile has been updated to reflect the number of ‘completed’ public notifications with a start date within the date range specified. The tile total now excludes ‘cancelled’ public notifications, where a notification commenced and was subsequently cancelled. Note: the cancelled records can still be found in the tile underlying data. |
Workload Analysis Page Zone Filter | New – a new filter has been applied to the Workload Analysis Page for ‘Zone’. |
Definitions | The following definitions have been amended/updated:
A new definition has been provided for ‘PN Required’. A new column has been provided to identify superseded definitions. |
Development Approval Statistics Page | New – an additional column has been included for the ‘Building Component Group’ (residential, other, industrial, commercial). |
Development Approvals Page | New – additional columns have been included providing the following Development Approval information
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Workload Management Report – Export Underlying Data | Export functionality has been fixed to show dates as a date instead of a value. |
Council Area Report – Consent Dashboard | The Consent decision date calculation has been updated to include all consent decisions. Previously, refused consent decisions were not appearing in the Consent Decision Metrics table. |
DAP
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Statement of Compliance template | The latest version (5) of the "Statement of Compliance Form" can now be generated, from the development application "Building Notifications tab" (for relevant authorities) and "Notifications & Inspections tab" (for applicants). |
Report Generation when Consent on Hold | Assessment reports are now able to be generated when consents are on hold. The ‘Generate Assessment Report’ and ‘Generate Panel Assessment Report’ buttons are now visible on the consent page when the application is on hold. |
Accredited Professional (AP) portal update - New Report for APs | The Accreditation Portal now includes a new report for APs to monitor the number of consents determined. The report provides a summary and list of consent decisions made in any given date range - including the total fee amount based on the Ministerial fee notice. |
| Fixes | |
Requests for Further Information (RFI) - Email Notifications | Applicant responses to a variation RFI will now send an email notification to the organisation email and the allocated assessor. |
Building notifications for designated building product & checklist | The signatory for Part A and Part B of the Statement of Compliance is now hidden when submitting the following notifications:
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Upload Statement of Compliance form | On upload of the Statement of Compliance form, the document number is now generated and shown in the document file name. |
PlanSA portal
Statement of Compliance template | Effective from 5 April 2024 is version (5) of the Statement of Compliance (SoC) template, with the following PlanSA pages have been updated accordingly:
The new Statement of Compliance form must be used from 5 April 2024 in accordance with regulation 104(3) of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017 (the Regulations). Any Statement of Compliance forms uploaded into the DAP after this date, using the previous version (version 4) are not compliant and will not be accepted. Currently, the latest version (version 5) of the Statement of Compliance is not yet available for generation from the DAP but will be made available shortly. Until then, the new version is available from the resources library. We will keep you posted when the new form is available for generation through the DAP. |
DAP
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Operative end date and extension of time form | Amendments to regulation 67 clarify that the operative period of any consent aligns with the operative period of the Development Approval. Where a Development Approval is granted, the operative period of related consents will be updated to align with the operative date of the Development Approval. The date will be reflected in the ‘operative period end date’ history table of the Consent Decision tab and recorded in the event audit history of the application. Where an application has Development Approval and an extension is required, the extension of time request form will only show the Development Approval. An extension of time can still be applied for on a consent where development approval has not been granted. |
Notification period for out of council areas | The notification period for completion notifications has been updated to five business days for out of council areas (per regulation amendments to the prescribed period in regulation 96). |
| Fixes | |
Extension of time update | The extension of time decision maker column in the operative history table has been updated to reflect the relevant authority who granted/refused the extension of time request. |
PlanSA portal
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Approval Wizard – Amendments to Dam Selection | When searching for ‘Dam’ within the Approval Wizard on the PlanSA website, and in circumstances where the results identify that you may not need approval, the following additional note has been added: Note: The Landscape South Australia Act 2019 requires authorisation for dam construction under 5 ML and/or wall height less than 3 m. Please contact your local Landscape Board to confirm permit requirements. |
DAP
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Review variation request – mark as “assessment not required” | An additional option “assessment not required” is now available when responding to a variation request on a consent. Selecting “assessment not required” will progress the variation request to the next Consent or Approval authority for consideration. The outcome “assessment not required” will not be displayed on the Decision Notification Form. Latest version |
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Mandatory indemnity insurance upload before or at the submission of the commencement of building work notification. | When the answer to the question “Has the Applicant Entered into a Building Work Contract Agreement” is “Yes”, the system now requires that building indemnity insurance documentation is supplied before or at the submission of the commencement of building work notification. Where there is an exemption, an exemption notice is required to be uploaded to be able to submit the commencement of building work notification if not already provided. |
PowerBI
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Building Inspections Report | A new version of the PowerBI Building Inspection Report includes cosmetic changes to simplify the presentation and navigation within the report, and the following enhancements:
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DAP
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Save and default frequently used contact details | Volume applicants and Accredited Professionals organisation administrators can now set up standard contacts for the following: applicant, primary, invoice, builder, registered building work supervisor and private certifier. Standard contacts can be set to appear as application defaults or selected throughout the application process. Latest version
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Online submission form (Crown Development) | The online submission form for Crown development has been updated to include an additional question. The question relates to whether the representor would like to present their submission in person at a hearing. |
Development Application Processing (DAP) system Building Notifications Report | The DAP Building Notifications Report now shows rectification notifications and includes the ability to filter by Rectification Required and Rectification Submitted. |
Application form updates | When submitting an application for accreditation, a new question has been added to ask the applicant if they want their contact information (email/phone number) to be published in the Accredited Professional Register. |
Code Rules Checklist Tool - Deemed-to-Satisfy (DTS) | The Code Rules Checklist tool can now be used for Planning Consent applications that have a status of "in verification" or "awaiting verification" to identify refined elements of an application that has a Deemed-to-Satisfy (DTS) pathway in the Planning and Design Code (the Code). The checklist can be downloaded, completed, and saved back to the document store as evidence that elements within an application are able/unable to be assessed as a DTS form of development. Latest Version |
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Updates to Building Notifications and Inspections Email Recipients | An Accredited Professional who issued the building rules consent, now only receives an email notification on submission of the completion of building work notification – PDI (Gen) Regs. 104(3)(b). An Accredited Professional who is nominated to issue the Certificate of Occupancy, now receives an email notification when:
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PlanSA portal
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Planning and Design Code Extract – Formatting | Updates have been made to the formatting of the PDF Planning and Design Code Extracts to improve:
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Hard Copy Development Application Form – New Version | An amended version of the hard copy development application form has been published on the PlanSA website. The fields in the revised form now align with the mandatory submission fields in the PlanSA Development Application Processing (DAP) system. |
DAP
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New Banking Provider – ANZ | The South Australian Government has recently entered into an agreement with a new banking provider and is in the process of transitioning to ANZ. Credit card payments made via the Development Application Processing (DAP) system and the PlanSA planning portal will no longer be processed via BPOINT, and will automatically be made to the new bank account via the ANZ payment gateway. Latest version |
Building Statistics – ABS Building component hierarchy changes | The building statistics page has been modified to properly group the building component hierarchical structure by splitting the questions based on the four divisions, eighteen classes and thirty-three subclasses in accordance with the ABS Functional Classification of Buildings. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/classifications/functional-classification-buildings/latest-release. Latest version |
Apply for a Certificate of Occupancy | The existing button has been renamed and now reads ‘Apply for Certificate of Occupancy’; the application page heading has also been updated to match. Additional information has been added to the email titled 'Confirmation. Received Certificate of Occupancy application' to include the building consent stage, name of the building/building work, the authority issuing the CoO and contact who signed Part B of the Statement of Compliance. Latest version |
Land Division Certificate Status – Applicant's View | The applicant's view of the progress for issuing the Land Division Certificate now aligns with the actual status. |
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Building Indemnity Insurance | On updating missing building indemnity insurance information (names of person(s) insured, limitations or builder), the uploaded 'building indemnity insurance' document now remains and is no longer removed from the document store. The 'Upload building indemnity insurance documents' section is now hidden when changing response to the question 'Has the applicant entered into a domestic building works contract' to 'not applicable' or 'owner builder'. |
Building Notifications – Building indemnity insurance details | When submitting the Commencement of Building Work Notification from the Notification & Inspections tab, all insurance details now show in the insurance section of the selected building notification. |
Generation of Form 2 Document | The Form 2 Document now generates at decision, and the error that was causing the document not to generate in some scenarios has been resolved. |
Accessing Document Store – Error message | An error message has been resolved which was occurring in the application document store, for applications which had been reassigned to another Relevant Authority and a file no longer exists. |
Request for Further Information (RFI) – Recall Request | A relevant authority user can now recall a previous Request for Further Information (RFI) which they have issued within an application. Upon actioning the recall, the assessment clock will resume from the day the initial request was made and remove any "pause" days associated with the request. Latest version
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Development Application – Review Additional Document Task | Where an applicant uploads additional documentation on the consent or development approval, the Relevant Authority cannot progress to issue a decision without first evaluating and confirming whether these documents are accepted or rejected. Latest version |
Variation Requests | An applicant can now submit a variation request in circumstances where the operative date of the Development Approval has exceeded 2 years, and where a building notification has been received to indicate that the building work has been substantially commenced. |
PlanSA Portal
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Public Development Application Register | Granted consents no longer appear as 'under assessment' if the Consent has been marked inconsistent by the relevant authority at development approval. |
Public Development Application Register - Location Details | When a land division occurs on a property, the original allotment is considered the 'parent' location, and the newly created allotments are often referred to as the 'child' locations. The public development application register has been updated to display both the parent location, and any child location details where applicable. |
