Plan assessment for councils
Resolved helps councils make faster, more accurate, better-evidenced decisions on planning applications. Every finding is referenced to your requirements and marked on the plans, and your officers make every call.
Benefits
For managers and directors
Officers stop searching plans for every dimension and provision, so their time goes further.
The same configured requirements are checked on every application, whoever picks it up.
Every finding is referenced to its requirement and located on the plans, with a log of changes.
We set it up around how your team works. Your DA system and delegations stay as they are.
For planning officers
Values, provisions and plan locations come already gathered.
Open the marker, compare the value, read the provision.
Resolved raises findings. You conclude them. Uncertain results are flagged for a closer look.
Discretionary matters, submissions and applicants get the attention they need.
How it works
Step 1
Upload the plans for an application. Resolved reads the site plan, floor plans and elevations together.
Step 2
Each requirement your council assesses against is checked. Each finding is referenced and marked on the drawings.
Step 3
Officers work through the findings, check them on the plans and record their conclusions.
Faster doesn’t mean less careful. Officers stop searching the plans and spend their time on the parts that need a planner.
Configured for your council
Resolved checks plans against the requirements your officers actually assess against, not a generic rulebook. We set it up for you, starting with time alongside your team to learn how they assess.
State
State residential code
Local
Local planning policies
Streetscape · Garages and carports · Front fences and walls
Your team
Officer checklists and templates
Scoped at setup
Local development plans
Your review
Findings against your requirements, marked on the plans.
Illustrative. Scope agreed with your council.
What we’ll ask you for
Your local planning policies
Development plans that apply in your area
The checklists and templates your officers use
Past assessments, if you can share them (optional)
Findings you can check
Requirement
The provision the finding relates to, named on the finding.
Found and required
The value on the plans beside what the requirement asks for.
Location
A numbered marker on the sheet where it applies.
Status
Open until an officer records a conclusion.
Officer control
Resolved supports assessment. It doesn’t determine applications.
Every finding stays open until an officer records a conclusion.
Where Resolved is less confident, it says so and asks for a check.
Who determines an application stays exactly as it is today.
Your council can see every plan it has processed, with a log of the changes made.
Who’s behind Resolved
19+
Years in Australian local, state and federal government
Our government cofounder knows how assessments, delegations, procurement and risk work from the inside.
15+
Years building technology in the US
Our technology cofounder built award-winning health technology products, with personal coverage in Forbes, the Chicago Tribune and NBC News.
Australian government experience. US technology experience. An Australian company.
Questions
Residential plans and development applications, checked against the state residential code and your local planning policies. If you assess other application types, we’ll talk them through in the walkthrough.
Your officers. Resolved raises findings with references and plan locations. Officers review them and record their conclusions. Delegations don’t change.
We set Resolved up for you. We spend time with your team first to learn how they assess, then configure the checks to match.
Resolved doesn’t replace your DA system. Officers use its report and annotated plans as part of their assessment.
Yes. Your council can see every plan it has processed, with a log of the changes made.
Book a walkthrough
A walkthrough with our team, online or in person. We’ll show Resolved on a plan like the ones your officers assess, and talk through what setup would look like for your council.
For planning managers and team leaders