Trust & governance
Built for the standards public sector work demands
Engineered by a team from regulated, high-assurance environments — where "mostly right" was never acceptable.
Principles
Guidance, never a determination
Council remains the responsible authority. SitePermit provides guidance grounded in the planning scheme and states its limits clearly.
People decide
Every measurement read from a plan is editable and marked for review. Officers accept, edit or override every finding.
Abstain and refer
Where a proposal turns on discretion or missing information, SitePermit abstains and routes the enquirer to council rather than guessing.
Traceable by design
Every answer is logged with the provisions it relied on, the rule version and the inputs it was given, so any result can be reconstructed and reviewed.
Current rules, clearly versioned
We track scheme amendments and distinguish operative provisions from draft strategies. Changes go live only after your planners confirm them.
Australian hosting and privacy
Hosted in Australian cloud infrastructure, with security, access control and privacy considered from the first line of code. We'll work through your information security and privacy requirements during onboarding.
Transparent to the public
Public-facing results are labelled as guidance, with a clear referral to council, so anything attributable to your council is always appropriately framed.
SitePermit assists the planner. It does not replace the statutory decision-maker.