Data and licences

Data and licences

Everything this site states as a fact comes from registers and map services that governments publish by law. We use them under their publishers' licences and turn none of it into estimates of our own.

Attributions the licences require

The lines below are the copyright and attribution notices those licences ask for, as worded. Naming a body here does not mean it endorses this site or how we read its data.

Other public registers

The remaining application facts come from planning registers that state and local governments publish by law, read as published, keeping only the public facts of residential applications.

What we publish

The facts a register makes public about an application: its number, what is proposed, the type of work, the address as the register prints it, the council, the dates lodged and decided, and the current status. Where a register publishes a declared cost we publish that too, always labelled as a declared cost: the applicant's own estimate under the official definition, filed to work out fees, excluding GST and the land, and not a contract price.

Why the full street address

A planning application is a public record: the register prints the address, the council advertises it, and the neighbours can read it on a notice board. Hiding the house number here would not make it private; it would only make this copy harder to check against the register. So we print it the way the register does.

What we never publish

Applicant names, owner names and contact details. Documents, drawings and plans. Anything that sits behind a login or a fee. Anything we would have to guess. Where a register publishes a name we do not want, it is dropped at the reading step, not filtered afterwards.

If a record is wrong

Every application page has a way to tell us. Say which application number and what is wrong, and we check this copy against the register. If we copied it wrong, we fix it. If the register itself is wrong, only the council or the department can change it at the source, and we will tell you which. We can also take this copy down.

Email us about a record

This page describes what we do. It is not legal advice and not a ruling on what anyone else may do with the same data.