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A licensed or registered surveyor is legally authorized to perform land surveying and sign off on projects. They establish boundaries and titles, apply laws relating to land ownership, and perform other crucial tasks. Land surveyors are important for the land development process, as they determine where structures can be built and infrastructure installed. Surveys are often required for development applications involving new external works, and provide information like site boundaries, contours, existing buildings and trees, and hazards. This information is used to accurately represent the site profile and establish house and path locations.

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Surveys

A licensed or registered surveyor is legally authorized to perform land surveying and sign off on projects. They establish boundaries and titles, apply laws relating to land ownership, and perform other crucial tasks. Land surveyors are important for the land development process, as they determine where structures can be built and infrastructure installed. Surveys are often required for development applications involving new external works, and provide information like site boundaries, contours, existing buildings and trees, and hazards. This information is used to accurately represent the site profile and establish house and path locations.

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Survey

What is the role and duties of a Land Surveyor ?


A licensed or registered surveyor is the only person who is legally
authorised to perform land or cadastral surveying and sign-off on
projects. They perform the following tasks:
❑ Apply the laws & procedures relating to land ownership
❑ Establish boundaries and titles when undertaking surveying work

Why do we need a land surveyor in Australia?

Land surveyors are a crucial link in the land development process.


Without them we would be unsure of where to build structures and
the infrastructure needed to support them.

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Survey requirements for
lodging a DA

❑ Go to the Local Council’s DA Checklist to


establish whether a survey is required
❑ Surveys are generally required for all
development applications that entail new
external works. If alterations and additions are
being done that are wholly internal to the
building, a survey may not be required. To
clarify whether a survey is required, you may
wish to contact Council’s Duty Planning
officer.

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Example
Survey
Drawing

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Council requirements

❑ Site boundaries, bearings and dimensions


❑ Contours or Australian Height Datum ground levels
❑ Natural drainage lines/water courses
❑ Any geotechnical hazards or restricted development areas;
❑ Location of existing buildings/structures
❑ Location of existing trees (including girth and spread of
canopy)
❑ Significant vegetation/topographical features
❑ Street features – power poles, kerbs & gutters

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Survey information
Typical Information on a survey Plan

❑ Site identification
❑ Datum to AHD
❑ True North
❑ Boundaries and Dimensions
❑ Contours
❑ Spot Levels
❑ Site features – paths,
Structures, pits etc.
❑ Trees & vegetation
❑ Existing structures
❑ Adjoining structures
❑ Window locations of adjoining
structures
❑ Ridge & Gutter levels
❑ Kerbs & gutters
❑ Services – Electric, Sewer, Gas
etc
❑ Easements

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How surveys are used to produce Site
Profile

❑ SECTION B-B – From the survey levels and identified features, an


accurate representation of the site profile is able to be drafted. The
House is located and surrounding path levels established

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Glossary
❑ AHD - Australian Height datum
❑ Contour - A line on a map joining points of equal height
above or below sea level
❑ True North - “True north” is the northern axis of rotation of the
Earth. It is the point where the lines of longitude converge on
maps
❑ Magnetic North - “Magnetic north” is the point on the Earth’s
surface where its magnetic field points directly downwards.
❑ Easement- An easement is a nonpossessory interest in another's land that
entitles the holder only to the right to use such land in the specified manner.
❑ Bearing- Bearing of a line is its direction relative to a given meridian. A meridian
is any direction such as true meridian, magnetic meridian and arbitrary
meridian
❑ Geotechnical- Relating to the type of civil engineering methods to plan and
build that is concerned with rocks and soil: Geotechnical engineering is
important in any construction occurring on the surface of or within the ground.
cadastral
❑ Cadastral- Cadastral surveying is the discipline of land surveying that relates to
the definition or re-establishment of land parcel boundaries
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