ZoneDSS reads every planning instrument cover to cover, identifies every control that applies to your lot, resolves conflicts between instruments, and scores each control by its impact on your approval. Every answer is cited to the source clause.
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Instruments Resolved
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Control Categories
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Per-Lot Resolution
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Answers Cited
We don't link you to a PDF and leave you to read it. We've extracted every individual requirement from the LEP, SEPP, and DCP — height limits, setbacks, parking rates, heritage provisions, landscaping rules, notification requirements — so nothing gets missed.
Each control is categorised so you can quickly see what applies to your development type. Design quality, setbacks, parking, heritage, environmental — 13 categories covering every aspect of a planning assessment.
Planning controls don't exist in isolation. A State Environmental Planning Policy can override your council's LEP height limit. A DCP setback control might only apply in certain zones. SEPP Housing can unlock development types that your LEP prohibits.
ZoneDSS tracks all of these relationships and resolves them automatically. When you query a lot, you see the final answer — not four separate documents you have to cross-reference yourself.
State overrides
SEPP Housing can increase height limits, allow secondary dwellings, or enable complying development where the LEP wouldn't normally allow it.
Cross-instrument constraints
DCP controls that only apply in specific zones, or only for certain development types. ZoneDSS filters them so you only see what's relevant.
Spatial variation
Height limits and FSR values vary within a zone — the limit at one end of a street can differ from the other. We resolve the actual value for your specific lot, not the zone average.
Not all controls carry equal weight. A heritage constraint on a State-significant item is far more impactful than a minor landscaping requirement. ZoneDSS scores every control by how likely it is to affect your approval — so you know where to focus your attention and your budget.
High-risk items surface to the top of your report. Low-risk items are still there, but they don't distract you from the controls that actually matter.
Ask planning questions in plain English and get a clear answer with the specific clause reference. Not a chatbot guessing — every answer is based on the actual controls that apply to your lot, and every claim cites the source clause so you can verify it yourself.
The AI knows your zone, your height limits, your heritage status, what you're building, and every applicable SEPP override. It answers in that context — not from generic training data.
Every answer includes a citation chip linking to the specific clause.
Expanding to more councils, then nationally
Next: Inner West, Randwick, Parramatta, North Sydney — then statewide
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