Design to the Acceptable Solution, or decide not to
Every Tasmanian standard has an Acceptable Solution and a Performance Criterion. Which one you design toward is a project decision that belongs at concept stage, not at lodgement.
Where Tasmania catches people out
You resolve the design and check the standards afterwards
By then the choice has been made for you. A scheme that misses an Acceptable Solution has moved to a Performance Criterion, with notification, representations and appeal rights attached.
You work from the State Planning Provisions alone
The Local Provisions Schedule applies the zones and codes to the land and carries the local specifics. The site-particular answer is there, not in the state provisions on their own.
The codes are noted on the site analysis and left there
Bushfire, landslip, coastal and heritage codes carry their own standards and referrals, and can reshape the brief — siting, access, construction, setbacks from a hazard — rather than annotate it.
What to use, and when
TAS Planning Insight
$39The zone, codes and standards that apply to that title, in time to shape the concept.
TAS Planning Reports
From $399A written planning assessment to support the application, addressing the relevant standards directly.
Talk to a planner
On requestFor heritage, hazard-affected sites, or a scheme that needs a considered performance argument.
Getting started
Check the title before the first sketch. Knowing which Acceptable Solutions you can meet outright is what keeps an application permitted rather than argued.
General information about the Tasmania planning system, not advice on a particular site. What applies to a property depends on its zone, the controls affecting it and what is proposed.