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Here’s what's new in Landchecker, 1 October 2024

We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest feature: Site Consolidation! This new feature was developed with our customer’s feedback in mind, empowering you to enhance your feasibility analyses.

What's New?

Using Site Consolidation, you can now select multiple properties on the Landchecker map to create a combined site.

You can select and combine neighbouring properties to assess the development potential of a site, or you can select distant properties nationally across Australia to view combined property information for an existing asset list.

Combined data includes:

• Land size - See the total area of your consolidated site or selected properties.
• Frontage - Calculate the combined street frontage.
• Zones - Understand the planning zones affecting your consolidated site.
• Orientation - Know the orientation of your consolidated site for better planning.

This feature was created to help make researching and assessing development potential easier than ever. Find out how to use the feature via our help centre.

Site Consolidation is now available to all members on our Advanced and Enterprise Plans.

Here’s what's new in Landchecker early September 2024

Improvements to tools

As mentioned in our last release notes we are currently in the process of upgrading our drawing tools. In this release you will see the following 3 update:

1. Draw mode: when drawing shapes and lines we now enter draw mode to avoid accidentally selecting the property below.
2. Left hand side panel: now shows a ‘TOOLS’ panel. Here you can turn on and off the area and line length. Watch this space for more updates to this section.
3. Temporary save: shapes are now temporarily saved. Watch this space for more powerful saving and collaborating options.

RHS Improvements

As you may have noticed, we have had a few updates to our sales data supplier in recent months, this was due to circumstances out of our control. In this latest release the Right Hand Side Panel has been reverted back to its original design. Watch this space for continual improvements to the data and functionality we show.

Special Controls NSW

Landchecker now displays the Special Controls in the NSW planning scheme. Special controls/area are specific conditions applying to developments within the area. These provisions might provide exceptions or relaxations to the standard planning controls (FSR, HOB, MLS) based on the characteristics of the development area.

Blue overlay removed from High Resolution Aerial Imagery

We listened to our customers request implemented some changes to the way High Resolution Imagery works when zooming out. The blue overlay no longer appears and a link in the footer shows the coverage. Text in the footer also explains what you are viewing at each zoom level and area you are in.

Release Notes

Here’s what's new in Landchecker late August 2024

Improvements to drawing tools

As part of an ongoing project to improve our drawing tools, customers can now see the improved hover and select shapes drawn in Landchecker. Watch this space for more improvements to be released over the coming weeks.

Improvements to distance to

Some improvements have been made to the Distance To tool, customers can now search in 5 minute increments up to 1 hour. Select a property to see where you can drive to within an hour using major and local roads.

Improvements to Victorian Property Certificates

Customers who purchase Victoria Property Certificates will now see a sticky ADD TO CART button once a product has been selected. This UX improvement has been made to reduce friction when a job reference is required but not added and customer clicks ADD TO CART.

Release Notes

Here’s what's new in Landchecker early August 2024

Radius

As requested by our customers the ability to add a radius up to 50km around your selected property has been added to the Landchecker experience.

Projects Update

We have moved the export and import functionality to the properties section of the projects so that customers can find and access them easily. We have also added a new section to manage your team more efficiently.

Multiple Billing Emails per Organisation

As requested by our customers the ability to add multiple billing email addresses has been incorporated on the business billing page. Customers can now edit the primary email (defaulted as the owner) and add multiple secondary email addresses.

Data loading improvements

The team has been tirelessly working on improvements to the Landchecker property search to load properties faster.

Release Notes

Here’s what's new in Landchecker early July 2024

Order Manager quick preview and download documents

Customers ordering documents can now preview and download documents with one click. Simply head over to the Order Manager and click icon buttons on the right side of the table to see how.

Order Manager bulk download documents

As part of ongoing improvements to the Order Manager we have released the ability to bulk download documents. Head over to the Order Manager and filter by date ordered and choose the month you would like to download documents from. From here click the select all checkbox, you will see the BULK DOWNLOAD button enabled with a badge showing how many documents are selected, click BULK DOWNLOAD and you will see a confirmation alert and a notification with a link to the zip file download.

Select preferred map area on sign up

New customers can now select the city they would like to map to open in. This can then be updated by right clicking on the map and selecting where you want to centre the map.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Project dots now working when high resolution imagery is on
• High resolution filters now working on small screens

Here’s what's new in Landchecker late June 2024

More powerful Order Manager Filter

Customers can now access more powerful filtering in the Order Manger with the ability to not only sort each column but also filter by each column. For example customers can now filter by the following criteria:

• PRODUCT - Contains, equals or is empty
• ORDERED BY - Contains, equals or is empty
• REFERENCE - Contains, equals or is empty
• DESCRIPTION - Contains, equals or is empty
• INVOICE - Contains, equals or is empty
• DATE ORDERED - From - to
• EST. DELIVERY DATE - From - to
• STATUS - Completed, Error or With Authority

Email Verification

As part of our ongoing security enhancements, new customers will now have to confirm their email on sign up and existing customers when they change their email.

Device Limitation

Again as part of our ongoing security enhancements, sessions are now limited to 2 devices per login. The oldest device login will be automatically logged out when sessions reach 3. Please read more about this in our FAQs here.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Pasting the address into the search bar now shows the related properties in the dropdown search suggestions
• Leaving the map and returning back brings you to you selected property.

Here’s what's new in Landchecker early June 2024

Search by owners name

Customers can now access the ability to search by owner's name to find the properties owned by said owner. Simply request access and sign a Landata deed poll and our support team will grant access once the deed is signed. From here you can search an individual or organisation via the DOCUMENT SEARCHES page > TITLE SEARCH tab > SEARCG BY drop down menu.

Improvements to planning permit hovers

Hovering on then moving the cursor away from the planning permit hover now closes the hovered permit information.

Zone colours now show in Site Finder Zone search chips

Visual improvements to the site finder search as outlined in the image below.

Here’s what's new in Landchecker late May 2024

High resolution Aerial Imagery Filters

Advanced customers can now access the ability to filter the high resolution aerial imagery by brightness and contrast. These edits can also be saved as a preference. Access these filters in the tools area next to the high resolution export.

Due Diligence is now Planning Layers

As part of an ongoing project to improve and customise your experience we have made the first of many updates to the left hand side panel. You can now see that the Due Diligence menu is now called Planning Layers and toggling open and turning on the data is now decoupled. Look out for future functionality releases where you can customise and save your settings in this area.

Statistical Areas (SA)

Customers on paid plans can now access Statistical Areas Levels 1-4 in the new above mentioned Planning Layers. Statistical Areas are geographical areas representing population density SA 1 for example, have a population of between 200 and 800 people with an average population size of approximately 400 people.

Reverse Geocode API

Customers on an Enterprise plan can now reach out to access the Landchecker API’s including the Reverse Geocode API which lets you select a point on the map to bring back the address. Other API’s recently released include the Property Details (zone, land size and property boundaries) and the Planning Permit/DA API’s.

Here’s what’s new in Landchecker late April 2024

Lidar imagery can now be toggled on/off

Customers using high resolution aerial imagery can now switch between lidar (red) and high resolution images.

Order manager update

As part of an ongoing project to improve the Landchecker order manager, customers can now sort the order manager columns in ascending and descending order. Watch this space for future improvements to the order manager filter.

Flood data now available in Qld premium property reports