Assess development applications faster and deliver better community outcomes
Transform your statutory planning team with the only assessment platform built by planners for planners. Faster reviews, fewer RFIs, and better outcomes for your community.
Transform your statutory planning team with the only assessment platform built by planners for planners. Faster reviews, fewer RFIs, and better outcomes for your community.
Objective Build is the next generation of digital planning software. Developed in collaboration with Australian councils and planners, it streamlines development assessments, surfaces historic insights for consistency, and eliminates the manual admin that slows progress.
Backed by 25 years of local-government expertise and innovation and trusted by more than 200 planning teams throughout Australia, Objective Build is NSW Planning Portal ready, right out the box — empowering planners to make better decisions, faster.
Unlike retrofitted ERPs or bolt-on modules, Objective Build is the first and only platform designed specifically for statutory planners. Created hand-in-hand with our Foundation Partners across NSW and Australia, it understands the reality of development assessment — the pressure, the complexity and the scrutiny. Every feature streamlines how planners actually work, cutting the admin and letting expertise, not process, drive great outcomes.
For too long, planners have spent more time documenting assessments than doing them. Objective Build changes that. Integrated regulation libraries, smart assessment templates and automated reports do the heavy lifting — turning assessment work into a seamless, connected process. Less writing, less rework, more time for the professional judgment that actually matters.
Everyone works in the same space, with the same information and the same goals. Comments, mark-ups and RFIs are instantly visible, so collaboration feels natural again — not like administration. It keeps workloads balanced, communication clear and morale high. Because when planners work together seamlessly, better outcomes follow for everyone — from the team to the community.
Empowering planners with technology built for their workflows allows councils to process more development applications — faster and more accurately — without adding headcount. Automated validation, integrated assessment templates and guided workflows reduce rework and improve throughput, helping councils meet housing and infrastructure targets while maintaining quality.
Objective Build provides a single, auditable source of truth for every consent. Transparent workflows, automated compliance checks and standardised templates ensure consistency across planners, reducing exposure to costly mistakes, appeals and reputational damage. Clearer visibility across applications and workloads means better management oversight and smarter resource allocation.
Too often, internal referrals disappear into inboxes or ERP tasks, leaving planners chasing updates and duplicating work. Objective Build brings every referral into the same workspace as the application — with shared visibility of status, dates and progress. No more email trails or version confusion. Just faster responses, stronger collaboration between teams, and complete oversight for managers.
Find out how Objective Build can help streamline development assessment, and book a demo with one of our team.