Watch an address, a radius or a whole suburb anywhere in New South Wales. When a new development application is lodged inside your watch area, it lands in your inbox — with the address, what's proposed, its status and how far away it is.
Alerts are built on the same site data you already use — pick the lot, choose how wide to watch, and you're done. There's no separate console to learn.
Each digest lists the applications lodged in your area since the last one — nearest first. For every application you get the street address, what's being proposed, the current status and the straight-line distance from the point you're watching.
That's usually enough to decide in seconds whether something needs a closer look. When it does, the site is one click away in the full viewer, with zoning, overlays and feasibility already loaded.
Alerts read the NSW Planning Portal's DA tracker, which covers every council in the state. That matters more than it sounds: platforms that build their own permit database can only alert you where they've digitised the data, so a quiet week is ambiguous — it could mean nothing was lodged, or it could mean that council simply isn't covered.
Because we read the state feed directly, an empty week means an empty week.
| Radius watch | Suburb watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | A specific site you own, are buying, or are designing near | Prospecting or tracking activity across a market you work in |
| Area | 100 m – 10 km around a point | The whole named suburb |
| Tells you distance | Yes — nearest application first | No, results are suburb-wide |
| Typical volume | Low; a few a month at 500 m | Higher; use a keyword to keep it useful |
| Set up from | A selected lot | A suburb name |
Two on the free plan, which is enough to watch a site you own and a suburb you're active in. Pro plans are unlimited. Existing alerts keep running if you later downgrade — you just can't add new ones past the free limit.
Daily or weekly, your choice per alert, sent in the morning Sydney time. If nothing new matched, nothing is sent — an empty inbox is a real signal, not a failure.
No. Each application is recorded against your alert the first time it matches and never reported again, even though we re-scan a rolling two-week window to catch late council data entry.
Yes — the Planning Portal feed includes complying development certificates and modifications alongside standard development applications, and the type is shown for each entry.
Every email has a one-click link that switches that alert off without signing in. You can also pause, edit or delete alerts from the app at any time.
Yes, and we'd rather tell you than have you find out later: PlanningAlerts, run by the OpenAustralia Foundation, emails free address-and-radius DA alerts across hundreds of councils. Our alerts are worth paying for when you want keyword filtering, suburb watches, and the application sitting inside a full site report rather than in isolation.
An alert tells you something was lodged. These tell you what it means for your site.
Two alerts free, no credit card. Set one up in about thirty seconds.
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