Plan Check · South Australia

Check your house plans against the zone's rules

Upload the PDF of your house or townhouse plans, or of an extension, from a site report. GoSiteHunt reads the numbers off the drawings and checks each one against the zone's planning rules: pass, fail or not checked, rule by rule, with the rule cited, the number read and the page it is on, and what to change where it fails.

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10 credits a check.

Taken only when the result shows. Nothing is charged if the PDF can't be read or the site's rules aren't held. Correct a misread number and check again, free. Plan, pack or referral credits; free trial credits don't cover the AI tools. Plans and credit packs are on the Pricing page.

Who it's for

Owners and buyers

You have plans for a new home, townhouses or an extension. See before you lodge where they meet the zone's numbers and where they don't.

Developers and builders

Check a designer's set against the site's rules in minutes, before the council does, and send back what to change.

Designers and drafters

A second pair of eyes on setbacks, height, site cover and open space, each with the clause it comes from.

What it checks

Read off your drawings, checked against the zone's rules in South Australia's Planning and Design Code and the site report's own numbers:

Height: storeys, building height to the ridge, and wall height.
Setbacks: front, side street, side (ground and upper floor) and rear (ground and upper floor), and walls on a boundary.
The land: site area, site coverage, the smallest lot and its frontage for each new home.
Living space: private open space and soft landscaping.
Cars: car parks for the bedrooms, the garage's inside size and door, its setback, and the driveway at the kerb.
The drawings: a scale and a north point, which every council asks for.
Extensions: alterations and additions are checked as the finished home, existing and new together. The result says which parts it read as existing and which as new. Rules for new homes only, like the smallest lot per home, aren't applied.

How it works

Run a site report
Look up the address in GoSiteHunt. The report reads the lot, its zone, controls and overlays.
Tap Check my plans
Upload the PDF: site plan, floor plans and elevations, up to 20 MB and 100 pages. It reads in a minute or two.
Read the result, and correct it
Every item shows the number read and its page. If a number was misread or missed, type the right one and check again, free.

A sample result

Made by the same code from one of GoSiteHunt's own generated sheets, not a customer's plans: two single-storey homes side by side, in South Australia's General Neighbourhood Zone.

Sample result

1 item doesn't meet the General Neighbourhood Zone rules.

1 fail 5 not checked 8 pass

GoSiteHunt concept sheet: site plan, lots, floor plan and rooms (1 page, A3), checked against South Australia's General Neighbourhood Zone on a 640 m² block with 16 m of frontage.

Result	Rule	What the rule needs	Read off the plans	Why
Fail	Smallest lot frontage	Needs at least 9 m · GNZ-2.1	8 m (page 1)	8 m is not at least 9 m. What to change: Wider lots: fewer homes across the frontage.
Not checked	Building height	Needs at most 9 m · GNZ-4.1		The plans don't show the overall building height (an elevation with the height from natural ground), so we couldn't check it. What to change: Show it on the plans, or type it in below if they show it and we missed it.
Not checked	Wall height	Needs at most 7 m · GNZ-4.1		The plans don't show the wall height, so we couldn't check it. What to change: Show it on the plans, or type it in below if they show it and we missed it.
Not checked	Site coverage	Needs at most 60% · GNZ-3.1		The plans don't show the site coverage or the roofed area, so we couldn't check it. What to change: Show it on the plans, or type it in below if they show it and we missed it.
Not checked	Side setback (ground floor)	Needs at least 0.9 m · GNZ-7.2		The plans don't dimension a ground-floor side setback (walls off the boundary), so we couldn't check it. What to change: Show it on the plans, or type it in below if they show it and we missed it.
Not checked	Car parks	Needs at least 2 · TAP-T1		The plans don't show how many car parks each home has, so we couldn't check it. What to change: Show it on the plans, or type it in below if they show it and we missed it.
Pass	Storeys	Needs at most 2 · GNZ-4.1	1 (page 1)	1 is at most 2.
Pass	Front setback	Needs at least 5 m · GNZ-5.1	5 m (page 1)	5 m is at least 5 m. Where the neighbouring homes sit further back, the front wall can be no more than 1 m in front of their average.
Pass	Shared wall between the new homes	GNZ-7.1(a)		Each home's own wall on the boundary, built against its twin's and read as abutting it. The design check has always read this zone rule this way.
Pass	Rear setback (ground floor)	Needs at least 4 m · GNZ-9.1	13.31 m (page 1)	13.31 m is at least 4 m.
Pass	Smallest lot	Needs at least 300 m² · GNZ-2.1	320 m² (page 1)	320 m² is at least 300 m².
Pass	Private open space	Needs at least 60 m² · DUA-21.1	107 m² (page 1)	107 m² is at least 60 m². A 16 m² piece of it, at least 3 m each way, sits off the living area.
Pass	Scale shown			1:300 at A3 (page 1).
Pass	North point shown			On page 1.

Concept check, not a planning approval. Guide only. Confirm all results with a council planner before you rely on them.

What it doesn't do

South Australia first. It checks plans for sites in South Australia's neighbourhood and corridor zones whose rules GoSiteHunt holds in full. Other states are coming.
It never guesses. A number the drawings don't show, a number read unsure, or a rule GoSiteHunt doesn't hold is an item that says not checked and why.
It reads the drawings, not your mind. Overlooking, overshadowing, stormwater, heritage detail and the Building Code aren't checked.
Your plans stay private. Only you can see them. They are read by our AI service provider, without your name or the address, never shared, redrawn or published, and deleted after 30 days.