https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog Insights on planning intake, applicant portals, council workflow, governance, and decision quality. en-au Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:17:26 GMT https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/why-intake-quality-matters-more-than-faster-assessment https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/why-intake-quality-matters-more-than-faster-assessment Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Planning Practice Councils often focus on speeding up assessment, but the bigger gain usually comes earlier: clearer guidance, better requirements, and fewer low-quality lodgements entering the workflow in the first place. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/how-applicant-portals-cut-status-update-work https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/how-applicant-portals-cut-status-update-work Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product Applicant portals are often framed as a convenience feature. In practice, they can remove a large volume of avoidable phone, inbox, and document-chasing work from planning teams when they are designed properly. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/planning-context-before-lodgement https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/planning-context-before-lodgement Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Planning Practice When applicants can understand site context before they lodge, councils receive better applications and planners spend less time rebuilding basic context during assessment. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/what-councils-should-want-from-a-public-planning-register https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/what-councils-should-want-from-a-public-planning-register Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Governance A public planning register should do more than publish decisions. It should reduce administrative duplication, improve public visibility, and stay aligned with the governed internal record that produced the outcome. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/why-planning-decisions-break-down https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/why-planning-decisions-break-down Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Planning Practice Planning decisions don't fail because officers lack judgment. They fail because the systems around those officers were never designed for the complexity of modern assessment. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/what-defensible-really-means https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/what-defensible-really-means Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Governance In planning, 'defensible' isn't a marketing term — it's the difference between a decision that survives VCAT scrutiny and one that doesn't. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/evidence-spine-single-record https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/evidence-spine-single-record Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product Every planning decision creates evidence. The question is whether that evidence is connected, traceable, and defensible — or scattered across a dozen disconnected systems. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/victorian-statutory-timeframes-guide https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/victorian-statutory-timeframes-guide Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Victoria Getting statutory timeframes right under the Planning and Environment Act 1987 means understanding not just the deadlines, but the pause conditions, extensions, and public holidays that affect them. https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/ai-in-planning-assessment https://www.statura.com.au/resources/blog/ai-in-planning-assessment Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Governance AI can accelerate planning assessment — but only if the governance boundaries are clear. Here's where AI should operate, and where human judgment must remain.