Form · Planning & Environment
Planning certificate (section 10.7): ordering and checking guide (NSW)
Guide to ordering a NSW planning certificate under s 10.7(2), with or without the s 10.7(5) advice, and a checking table that walks through each Schedule 2 matter (zoning, contributions, flood, bush fire, acquisition, asbestos, mine subsidence and others) with what to do if a matter is flagged.
- Kind
- Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Green AI can do most of the drafting. A lawyer still reviews the result.
- Law stated as at
- 18 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 18 October 2026 against the 3 authorities it cites, for New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when acting on a purchase, sale, lease, development feasibility or loan security over NSW land, or before lodging a development application. The certificate is a starting point; it does not replace searches of the planning controls, the consent history or an inspection.
How AI may be used
With this checking table settled by the firm, AI may transfer each answer on the certificate into the table and flag every matter that is not a plain no; the lawyer reads the certificate itself and decides what each flag means for the client.
AI may
- Transfer each item of the certificate into the checking table, quoting the certificate’s words
- Flag every item answered other than with a plain negative, and every item the certificate does not address
- Check that the lot and plan, address and council on the certificate match the title search and the contract
AI must not
- Must not summarise a flagged matter as not significant, or advise on its effect on the transaction or development
- Must not treat the certificate as a complete statement of the planning controls or of contamination
- Must not fill an item the certificate leaves blank with information from another source without saying so
The lawyer checks
- The certificate is current, for the right land, and is the s 10.7(2) and (5) certificate if the advice is needed
- Every flagged item has been followed up with the source instrument, map or council record and explained to the client
- Contamination, acquisition, flood, bush fire, loose-fill asbestos and mine subsidence answers have been read in full, including any s 10.7(5) advice
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Read the full text
The full text is for signed-in accounts. It is free. When you sign in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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