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Planning and development assessment
Land use planning, development applications, building approvals and certification, heritage and environmental triggers, and compliance with what was approved.
Planning and development assessment (MG-08) is one of the twenty-one MeshGov services, in the "Serving people and business" family. Land use planning, development applications, building approvals and certification, heritage and environmental triggers, and compliance with what was approved. It replaces development assessment system, building certification tracker and planning scheme pdfs. AI agents carry the work end to end; a named officer takes every decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. It is common at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
What it replaces
- Development assessment system
- Building certification tracker
- Planning scheme PDFs
What it reacts to
- Application lodged
- Referral response received
- Notification period ends
- Inspection stage reached
- Complaint about works
The agents that carry it
Lodgement agent
Checks completeness once, identifies every referral the scheme requires and routes them in parallel.
Assessment agent
Assesses against the planning scheme and codes, citing each clause, drafts standard conditions and the assessment report.
Notification agent
Runs public notification, takes submissions and summarises them for the assessing officer.
Certification agent
Schedules inspections and issues certificates when every prior stage is evidenced.
Where a person decides
No decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money is taken by an agent alone. In Planning and development assessment, these decisions are held for a named officer, with the agent's evidence and recommendation attached.
| Decision | Who decides | Why a person |
|---|---|---|
| Determination of every application | Delegated planner or panel | Legal effect on land |
| Non-standard conditions | Delegated planner | Discretion under the scheme |
| Enforcement against unlawful works | Delegated officer | Legal effect on a person |
Records it writes
Assessment report with clause citations · Determination and conditions · Submissions summary · Certificates and inspection records
Before MeshGov: the baseline this service is measured against
Applications a year
3,900
development and building
Median determination
71 days
today, against a 40-day standard
Requests for information
2.3
today, per application on average
Clauses cited in reports
partial
today; every clause on MeshGov
Levels of government: common at federal level, core at state level, core at local level.
Questions buyers ask about Planning and development assessment
- What does MeshGov Planning and development assessment do?
- Land use planning, development applications, building approvals and certification, heritage and environmental triggers, and compliance with what was approved. It reacts to events such as application lodged, referral response received and notification period ends, and writes assessment report with clause citations, determination and conditions, submissions summary and certificates and inspection records as records.
- What systems does Planning and development assessment replace?
- Development assessment system, Building certification tracker and Planning scheme PDFs. Because the service runs on the MeshGov platform, the licence, integration and upgrade costs of those systems retire with them.
- What do the AI agents do in Planning and development assessment?
- The lodgement agent checks completeness once, identifies every referral the scheme requires and routes them in parallel. The assessment agent assesses against the planning scheme and codes, citing each clause, drafts standard conditions and the assessment report. The notification agent runs public notification, takes submissions and summarises them for the assessing officer. The certification agent schedules inspections and issues certificates when every prior stage is evidenced.
- Which decisions does a person still take?
- Agents never take a decision with legal effect on a person, a business or public money. In Planning and development assessment, a person decides determination of every application (delegated planner or panel), non-standard conditions (delegated planner) and enforcement against unlawful works (delegated officer). The record shows who decided, why, on what evidence and under which delegation.
- Which levels of government use Planning and development assessment?
- It is common at federal level, core at state level, core at local level. MeshGov was checked against the Australian Government Architecture, the AGA Business Reference Model, the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture and the UK Local Government Business Model, and serves government in any country.