Compliance assessment for all types of approvals. Upload the drawings and supporting documents, and the plans are checked clause by clause against the legislation itself — every deficiency, missing document and item to resolve, laid out where you can see it.
Three steps. No software to learn — a login, an upload, a report.
Site plan, drawings, 10.7, title, DP — whatever you've been sent. Takes two minutes in the portal.
The applicable code is checked clause by clause against your documents — along with title and 88B obligations, live planning-map constraints and council flood studies. Every report passes an automated verification check before it's released.
A plain-English summary, full clause tables, and a red list of what's missing or must be fixed — with the code text quoted in full.
Not a summary — a working document you can assess from, with every claim carrying its source and page.
From the general requirements (cl 1.17–1.19A) through the applicable code to Schedule 6 — quoted from the current legislation, never from summary tables.
What the code requires beside what the drawings show, with the sheet reference — setbacks, height, floor area, landscaping, parking, all of it.
Covenants, support easements, developer approval preconditions — read in full, burden lists checked lot by lot.
The NSW planning maps checked for the exact parcel — bushfire, acid sulfate, flooding, mine subsidence, biodiversity, airport height limits — with the detail, not just yes/no.
Checked against the certificate — including studies the 10.7 hasn't caught up with yet.
A red list of what must be provided or fixed, an amber list of items to confirm, and a clear indication — permissible, permissible subject to documents, or not permissible as drawn, with reasons.
On one recent sample job the report caught five development-standard failures before lodgement — including a 120 mm setback shortfall and a garage door that can't comply on that lot width. Read exactly that report — fictionalised, findings untouched — via the sample link above.
No claims you can't check — every one of these is visible in the report itself.
Every clause is quoted from the current NSW compilation, with its currency date stated. Summary tables drift — in our own work we've found published guidance contradicting the legislation on two development standards. The legislation is the only basis we use.
Every finding names its source — document, sheet, page, clause — so you can verify any row of the report in seconds without taking our word for anything.
Missing evidence is never treated as compliance. No 10.7, no engineering, no utility search — it goes on the red list in plain words instead of disappearing.
We check the NSW planning maps for the parcel and research council flood studies — which has already surfaced a finalised shire-wide flood study on land whose 10.7 still says flood status is unknown.
The report is built from the drawings — the figures on the plans checked against the figures in the legislation, sheet by sheet, standard by standard. That's the point of difference.
Reports are back fast — send the pack on a live job and judge the result against your own review.
CertAssist is run by a NSW practice that has personally scoped thousands of site assessments — 10.7s, titles, deposited plans, s88B instruments, CDC/DA pathway calls — and works with private certifiers and structural engineers every week. We built this system for our own approval jobs first. It runs every job we do. NSW only for now — depth over coverage.
Accounts are set up personally — use the button below with your name and firm, and you'll have a login the same day. Send the pack on your next pool, spa or dwelling job and judge the report against your own review.