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A condition of consent doesn’t predict work. It requires it.
Every approved NSW development application carries conditions, and many of them name a specific professional who must do specific work before a specific stage, an arborist report before the construction certificate, acoustic treatment before occupation, a dilapidation survey before anyone breaks ground. That is not a signal that work might happen. It is a legal requirement with a deadline attached.
Where this is live
Ask for your councils, and we will tell you straight.
There is no central source for these documents, so this grows one council at a time. Rather than quote you a share of NSW when nobody knows the true total, tell us the councils you work in and we will say what we hold for them before you pay for anything.
A council we have not reached has not been checked, which is a different statement from “that council publishes nothing”. The NSW Planning Portal withdraws the register entry at determination, so notices come from each council’s own tracker one at a time.
What we serve, and what we hold back
The work we name, and the work we only point at.
A condition is worth a phone call when it says who has to be engaged and by when. Where we can read that cleanly, we serve it as a lead. Where we cannot, you still get the condition in the council’s own words and make the call yourself, rather than us quietly dropping it.
We assert the claim
Demolition, stormwater and on-site detention, structural certification, and survey. Each row names the work, the stage it bites at, and the site, and carries the condition verbatim so you can check it before you ring.
We show you the council’s words and let you judge
Acoustic, arborist, dilapidation, geotechnical, erosion and sediment control, waste management and bushfire protection. These are served too - the same feeds, the same alerts - but the subject line is right while some rows are a fragment of a longer condition, so we hand you the condition verbatim rather than asserting what it requires. You judge it in a glance. Nothing here is withheld; the difference is whether we make the claim or you do.
Where the row is half a notice
Flood compliance arrives inside long unbroken passages that carry several conditions at once. The flood requirement is genuinely there, and a row that hands you eleven conditions under one heading is the wrong shape to act on, so we hold it back rather than dress it up.
On the record, not yet read
Tree replacement is captured and stored and we have not checked it by hand, so we do not claim it. Not a weak result, the absence of one, and it is listed apart from the rest so nobody reads a silence as a score.
Held back on purpose
BASIX, Section 68 approvals, landscaping, hoarding and scaffold, traffic management, contributions, heritage and the Sydney Water categories. A wrong “this one needs an arborist” is worse than silence: you can check it in one click, and we would have spent your afternoon.
Why nobody else has this
There is no bulk source for a Notice of Determination.
The portal’s conditions endpoints are gated to councils and certifiers, and the register entry is withdrawn once an application is determined. We went looking for them the obvious way and could not retrieve a single one.
- Every condition is stored exactly as it was parsed, never paraphrased or summarised, with the span of text that produced its category, so any claim can be checked against its own words. One caveat we would rather state than have you find: the parse reads a determination document’s text layer, and where a council publishes several documents together we refuse the ones carrying another author’s page furniture rather than risk showing you a consultant’s report as a council’s condition.
- Each is tagged to the stage it bites at, before the construction certificate, before commencement, during work, before occupation, or ongoing.
- Where a condition names a professional who must be engaged, that is flagged separately from work that merely has to be done.