South Australian Town Planning Tools
Plain-English planning analysis for any South Australian property — grounded in the gazetted Planning and Design Code. Look up your property in SAPPA, paste the result here, and we'll generate a comprehensive report covering zone, overlays, development capacity and recommended next steps.
For owners, developers, designers, conveyancers and agents navigating SA's state-wide Planning and Design Code.
SA planning tools & services
Start with the AI Planning Report for a plain-English read on what your property can do. More SA tools (zone-specific compliance checks, secondary dwelling check, signage assessment) will follow as we expand coverage.
AI Planning Report
Paste your SAPPA “Planning Zones & Overlays” popup and we generate a plain-English planning report grounded in the gazetted Planning and Design Code. Covers zone, subzone, overlays, Performance Outcomes that apply, development capacity by typology and recommended next steps.
Free (Govt)SAPPA — SA Property and Planning Atlas
The SA Government's free planning mapping tool — lets you look up the title, lot, valuation, zone and overlays for any SA property. We use SAPPA as the authoritative input to our paid AI Planning Report.
About SA's Planning and Design Code
South Australia's planning system runs on a single state-wide instrument — the Planning and Design Code — gazetted under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016. Unlike Victoria or NSW where each council publishes its own scheme, the Code applies uniformly across all SA properties.
Each property has a zone (e.g. General Neighbourhood, Capital City, Township Activity Centre), optionally a subzone, and any number of overlays (heritage, hazards, airport building heights, urban tree canopy, etc.). Development is classified as Accepted, Deemed-to-Satisfy, Performance Assessed, or Restricted — each pathway has different consent requirements.
Our AI Planning Report cites the specific Performance Outcomes and Deemed-to-Satisfy criteria that apply to your property, in plain English, so you can understand what you can build before you commit to plans or a development application.
Working in another state?
We also cover Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.