Edition 04 · Apr 2026 Filed under — For Land Surveyors Feasibly · The Brief

For Land Surveyors

Know the planning context before you quote the plan.

Subdivision feasibility, minimum lot size per schedule, frontage constraint, lot shape classification, adjacent parcels, all in the same response you already need for the survey brief.

FIG. 01 — THE PROPOSED BOUNDARY

Status quo

What eats your prep time

  1. 01

    Client sends a parcel

    Wants to know if it can be subdivided.

  2. 02

    You pull cadastre

    Lot area, boundaries, frontage — 2 minutes.

  3. 03

    Planning context takes 20

    Zone? Schedule minLotSize? Overlays? Garden area? Easements across the lot? Adjacent parcels for consolidation?

  4. 04

    You quote anyway

    Sometimes under-priced because you missed a constraint. Sometimes over-priced because you didn't know the schedule was favourable.

The lookup

What the lookup returns for surveyors

15 Sorrett Ave, Malvern VIC 3144 HCTZ1 · Stonnington · 969 m² · 12 m frontage
Min lot size
200 m²
Cl.32.10
VPP default
Lot area
969 m²
state cadastre
Verified
Frontage
12 m
state cadastre
Verified
Corner lot
No
state cadastre
Verified
Heritage overlay
HO396
Cl.43.01 · permit for buildings & works
Permit

Lot geometry from the state cadastre, the schedule minimum from the zone provision, and the overlay that will shape any application. We do not compute a lot yield here — that depends on layout and access, and a number invented from area ÷ minimum would be a guess dressed up as an answer.

Lot area + frontage + shape

Regular / moderate / irregular / battle-axe. Compactness ratio. Aspect. Width-to-depth. All from live cadastre.

Schedule-specific minLotSize

Not the zone default — the council's schedule. With confidence tag and last-verified date.

Subdivision yield indicator

Realistic lot count given garden area, coverage, setback, frontage, and shape constraints.

Easements on the parcel

Detected via the easement layer, clipped to parcel boundary. Not “nearby”.

Adjacent residential parcels

For consolidation potential. Combined area and individual parcel details.

Heritage, bushfire, flood, heritage overlays

All in one response. No stitching together 6 map portals.

Before / after

What you can quote the same day

Without Feasibly

~30 min per enquiry

  1. Open state planning portal
  2. Identify zone, cross-check schedule
  3. Look up overlays one at a time
  4. Check heritage register
  5. Compute potential lot yield by hand
  6. Write quote

With Feasibly

~2 min per enquiry

  1. Lookup address
  2. Yield + envelope + constraints in one structured response
  3. Quote confidently — you already know the schedule

Footnotes

What surveyors ask

Is this a replacement for a formal feasibility?
No. It's a screening layer that tells you whether a formal feasibility is worth doing, and what to look at first.
Does it read through DDO schedules for height?
Partially. The zone schedule's height is resolved with confidence. DDO-imposed height overrides are flagged but not yet fully parsed for every council.
Can I export a report?
Yes, branded 3-page PDF per lookup on the Scale tier.

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