Your Statement of Environmental Effects. $1,800. $299.
In five minutes.

Yes. Every report addresses all matters a consent authority must consider under Section 4.15 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, as amended by the Planning Systems Reform Act 2025. The report is structured to the same standard as a report prepared by a qualified town planner — Introduction, Site Analysis, LEP Compliance, DCP Compliance, SEPP Assessment, Section 4.15 Evaluation, and Conclusion.

Compliance tables are formatted for direct council review. We recommend reviewing every section before lodging. If you identify any site-specific detail that needs adjustment, the editable Word version allows you to make changes.

We pull live planning data from NSW Spatial Services, the NSW Planning Portal, ArcGIS MapServers, and the Rural Fire Service. This is the same data a town planner accesses manually — zoning, LEP controls, DCP standards, bushfire mapping, heritage registers, flood overlays. The data is compiled into a structured compliance assessment covering every matter under Section 4.15.

The entire process — data collection, compliance verification, report assembly — takes approximately five minutes.

Requests for Information (RFIs) are a normal part of the DA process and occur with planner-prepared SEEs too. Common RFIs relate to site-specific details that require on-ground verification — stormwater management plans, shadow diagrams, or neighbour notification responses.

Your report includes an editable Word document. If council requests additional detail on a specific section, you can add it directly and re-upload to the NSW Planning Portal. You can also re-run the report for the same address at no extra charge.

We support all NSW councils for planning data collection — zoning, height, FSR, heritage, bushfire, and flood data is pulled state-wide from NSW government APIs. DCP-specific compliance tables are currently available for 30+ Sydney metropolitan councils, with regional councils being added progressively.

If your council's DCP isn't yet in our system, the report will include all LEP and SEPP compliance but flag DCP sections for manual review.

We automatically detect all three from government APIs.

Heritage — checked against the NSW Heritage Register and your council's LEP heritage schedule. If your site is a heritage item or within a Heritage Conservation Area, the report includes a heritage impact assessment section.

Flood — checked against the LEP flood planning area map. Flood-affected sites receive additional assessment against the NSW Floodplain Development Manual.

Bushfire — checked against the Rural Fire Service bush fire prone land map. Category 1, Category 2, and vegetation buffer zones are identified and assessed against Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2019.

Yes — account creation takes 30 seconds and happens automatically when you pay. Your account stores every report you've generated so you can re-download or re-run them at any time. Re-running a report for the same address is free.

A Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE) is a mandatory document for all Development Applications in NSW. It's required under Schedule 1 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021.

The SEE assesses the environmental impacts of your proposed development and demonstrates compliance with planning controls — the Local Environmental Plan (LEP), Development Control Plan (DCP), and relevant State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs).

Without a SEE, your DA cannot be lodged on the NSW Planning Portal. Council cannot assess an incomplete application.

$299 delivers two files: a council-ready PDF formatted with page numbers and your address on every page, ready for the NSW Planning Portal, and an editable Word document for any site-specific adjustments. Both are stored against your account for unlimited re-download. Need to re-run the report for the same address — after an RFI, or if your plans change? That's free, always.

Download the PDF from your report page. Log into the NSW Planning Portal, start your Development Application, and upload the PDF where it asks for a Statement of Environmental Effects. The editable Word version lets you make any last adjustments before lodging.