About
What this site is
What this site is for a homeowner, what it is for a builder, where the numbers come from, and how to reach us.
If you own the block
Type a street address and read what today's state rules allow on that block. Beside it you see finished projects nearby, carrying a cost where the builder published one, and applications lodged nearby, carrying the costs declared on the public registers. Where a finished project names the people who did the work, you can write to one of them.
If you build, design or supply
Your finished projects sit on a page of your own, posted from your phone with a few photographs. An enquiry about one of them goes straight to your inbox and the reply comes back to you. There is a badge for your own website that leads to the page.
Where the numbers come from
What a block allows is read from the planning rules and the map layers each state publishes. What has been lodged nearby, and the cost declared with it, is what the public planning registers publish. What a finished project cost is the figure the builder published about his own project. Where we hold no cost the page says so, and we do not estimate one.
The licences behind the data, and the attributions they ask for
How to reach us
Write to us about anything on the site: a figure that looks wrong, a page you want changed, a page you want taken down. We answer in the language you write in.
Questions we are asked
- Is a declared cost the price I will pay?
- No. It is the figure the applicant declared to the council when lodging, an estimate filed to work out the fee, and not a contract price.
- Does the site rate builders?
- No. A page carries the project, who did what on it, and whether the builder confirmed it, and a list is ordered by finished work.
- Can I have my company taken down?
- Write to hello@seebuilds.com and it comes down.
- Which states are covered?
- Block rules for seven states and territories, with New South Wales read down to the lot and no public layer in the Northern Territory; of the registers, only the New South Wales one publishes the cost an applicant declared.