One application pack. Two role-specific workspaces.
Applicants improve the application pack before lodgement. Local government reviewers complete every configured check with cited evidence and a human outcome.
The same application pack supports two different role-specific workflows.
Evidence preview and human verification
The current pathway is BA1 — Application for Building Permit – Certified, supported by BA3 — Certificate of Design Compliance. Statewide prescribed and statutory-form requirements, cross-document consistency checks, and the participating local government’s configured intake and workflow checks.
Evidence located does not mean requirement satisfied.
Evidence mapping workflow
Requirement → evidence → source → status → reviewer outcome
Synthetic application pack
Configured requirements
Statewide prescribed and statutory-form requirements, cross-document consistency checks, and the participating local government’s configured intake and workflow checks.
Requirement
Configured check and rule source
Evidence
Relevant value or document located
Source
Document and page cited
Status
Potential evidence located or exception surfaced
Reviewer outcome
Authorised reviewer records the decision
Synthetic demonstration — all people, organisations and projects shown are fictional. Not for statutory or construction reliance.
PlanScout locates and previews the evidence. The reviewer completes every check and retains every professional and statutory decision.
Detailed five-stage review workflow
Confirm the certified BA1 pathway, applicable statewide requirements, local government intake checklist, workflow checks, rule sources and effective dates.
Identify the BA1, BA3, drawings and supporting documents, then extract the fields required for the configured checks.
Show which document and page contains potentially relevant evidence for each requirement, together with the extracted value and current evidence status.
Requirement → candidate evidence → source → status → human decision
Separate potential supporting evidence from exceptions and matters outside automated scope.
The authorised building surveyor or permit officer verifies the evidence, resolves exceptions and determines whether any formal action or communication is required.
Canonical terminology model
What the applicant proposes to construct.
The formal application or approval pathway. BA2 and the other listed pathways are examples, not current PlanScout product scope.
How the relevant local government names and administers the service.
What must be located, compared and presented for human review.
PlanScout stores these as related but separate concepts. A project label such as “shed” or “ancillary dwelling” is not itself a statutory application code.
PlanScout does not issue permits, make statutory decisions or replace registered practitioners, professional assessment, or existing lodgement, document management and records systems.
An authorised local government building surveyor or permit officer reviews the cited evidence and records the outcome.
Evidence located does not mean requirement satisfied.
