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Westpoint GroupA$999
inc GST, fixed price
Any residential job, whatever its size.
A$999 including GST, for any residential job, whatever its size. Upload your plans and receive your QS-signed council cost report within 24 hours.
24 hours from payment and a complete plan set, Monday to Friday. Orders after 2 pm Friday are delivered by Monday. Read the full terms.
The Estimated Development Cost Report follows the standard form in Planning Circular PS 25-004, section by section. Your council's cost form and your key drawings sit in the appendices.
Appendix A is the estimated development cost form from Planning Circular PS 25-004, completed with the same figures as the report and signed. The council gets the form it asks for and the working behind it.
The estimated development cost is stated excluding GST, as the Regulation defines it. The GST and the total including GST sit beside it, because the council sets the DA fee on that total.
Floor areas are measured from your drawings and set out floor by floor. Each element shows its cost and its share of the total, and the drawings it came from are in the appendix.
The site, the council, the reference and the estimated development cost excluding and including GST, with the quantity surveyor who prepared it.
What the Regulation counts in the estimated development cost, and the quantity surveyor’s own qualifications and experience.
The address with lot, DP and council, a short description, and the drawings and certificates the estimate relies on.
Gross floor areas by floor, enclosed and unenclosed, then the totals with GST and the cost per square metre.
Every element of the building with its cost and its share of the total. Preliminaries and builder’s margin are their own lines.
What the figure covers, what the Regulation leaves out, and the quantity surveyor’s signed declaration in the standard wording.
The state’s estimated development cost form for works under A$3 million, completed with the same figures and signed.
Reduced copies of the key drawings the estimate was measured from.
Upload your plans and receive your QS-signed council cost report within 24 hours. 24 hours from receipt of payment and a complete plan set, Monday to Friday. Orders received after 2 pm Friday are delivered by Monday.
Order online and upload your DA plan set with the project details. PDF, DWG and image files all work.
We measure the gross floor area to the AIQS method and price each element from published construction cost rates.
Your council cost report includes the quantity surveyor’s signature and certification.
The signed PDF arrives by email and on your order page, within 24 hours. 24 hours from payment and a complete plan set, Monday to Friday. Orders after 2 pm Friday are delivered by Monday.
Most people order the report and never need to speak to anyone. If your job sits outside the standard pack, talk to us first.
The standard pack
A$999 inc GST
Any residential job, whatever its size. Upload your plans, pay, and your signed report comes back within 24 hours. No call needed.
24 hours from payment and a complete plan set, Monday to Friday. Orders after 2 pm Friday are delivered by Monday. Read the full terms.
Talk it through
A short phone call with Pavlo about what your council asks for, what you need to upload, and whether the standard pack covers your job.
Weekdays, Sydney time. We call the mobile number you give us.
Outside the pack
An independent cost plan, a review of an estimate you already hold, a council report the standard pack does not cover, or another quantity surveying request.
Scope, fee and timing are agreed request by request, so this work carries neither the fixed price nor the 24 hour turnaround above.
The report is prepared to the NSW estimated development cost framework, Planning Circular PS 25-004 and the AIQS practice standard. Our quantity surveyor works Australia-wide, and the price and the turnaround do not change.
Councils outside NSW set their own requirements, so check what yours asks for before you order. Tell us the state and the purpose when you order.
A signed figure to back the development cost you declare. Check what your council asks for first.
An independent cost figure, signed by a registered quantity surveyor. Ask your lender what it needs before you order.
Same price
A$999 inc GST
Same turnaround
within 24 hours
No quote round and no hourly rate. You see the price before you upload a single page.
Council cost report
A$999 inc GST
Any residential job, whatever its size. One development application, delivered within 24 hours.
If our quantity surveyor cannot certify a report from the documents supplied, we refund the order in full.
The report states the estimated development cost for the planning system. It is not a builder's price.
Every NSW development application states an estimated development cost. The council uses it to set the approval pathway and the DA fee. Who may prepare the report depends on that cost.
| Estimated development cost | Who can prepare the report |
|---|---|
| Under A$100,000 | You, the applicant, or a suitably qualified person |
| A$100,000 to A$3 million | A suitably qualified person, such as a licensed builder, a registered architect, an accredited building designer or a quantity surveyor |
| Above A$3 million | A registered quantity surveyor, a member of the AIQS or RICS |
That is the state rule under Planning Circular PS 25-004. A quantity surveyor is on its list of suitably qualified people in every band below A$3 million, and is the preparer it names above A$3 million.
Councils also set their own requirements, and some ask for a registered quantity surveyor well below A$3 million. A few set their own form and their own credential as well. Check your council's DA requirements before you lodge.
Every report is certified and signed by a registered quantity surveyor, a member of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
The declaration and the cost form carry their name, qualifications and AIQS membership number, with their signature and the date.
No. One price covers any residential job, whatever its size: a new home, a duplex, a granny flat, alterations and additions, or townhouses.
It is A$999 inc GST for one development application, with no surcharge for size or value.
The report follows Planning Circular PS 25-004 and the AIQS practice standard. That is the method the state sets for every NSW consent authority.
For residential work under A$3 million, the circular describes accepting an estimate prepared this way as best practice for councils.
Each council also sets its own requirements, and some ask for a quantity surveyor well below A$3 million. Check your council before you lodge. A council can still ask about any figure, and when it does we answer with the working.
No. It is the estimated development cost the planning system uses for the approval pathway and fees.
It is not a builder’s price. The EstiFlow estimate is the build cost.
The DA plan set as you will lodge it. Add the Statement of Environmental Effects, the BASIX certificate and any survey, engineering or landscape plans you have.
Then the site address, lot and DP, zoning, the council, the applicant’s legal name and a short description of the development. Tell us when you expect building to start, if you know.
We supply the working.
If the council names a specific item we missed, we reissue at the corrected quantity at no charge.
Every report includes the state’s estimated development cost form from Planning Circular PS 25-004, completed and signed, as Appendix A.
If your council also asks for its own form, tell us and we complete it from the same figures.
Both ways. The estimated development cost excludes GST, as the Regulation defines it.
The report then shows the GST and the total including GST, because the council sets the DA fee on that total.
The report states the estimated development cost.
Section 7.12 levies run on a separate section 208 basis, which includes GST. We can add that worksheet on request.
Your signed report is delivered within 24 hours.
The full terms: 24 hours from receipt of payment and a complete plan set, Monday to Friday. Orders received after 2 pm Friday are delivered by Monday.
If our quantity surveyor cannot certify a report from the documents supplied, we refund the order in full.
A duplicate payment is refunded in full. The refund policy sets out the rest.
Yes. The price and the turnaround are the same.
The report is prepared to the NSW estimated development cost framework, Planning Circular PS 25-004 and the AIQS practice standard. Councils outside NSW set their own requirements, so check what yours asks for before you order. Tell us the state and the purpose when you order.
Yes. EstiFlow prepares a full construction estimate from the same plans.
It comes with a detailed cost report, an editable bill of quantities and subcontractor pricing packs.
Your council asks what the development costs, and the report you order here answers that, signed and in the state's standard form. What the build will cost you to carry out is a different question. EstiFlow takes the same plans and prices the work package by package, so you can set a budget, compare builder quotes and talk to your lender.
Price the build on EstiFlowA$999 inc GST. Signed by a registered quantity surveyor, delivered within 24 hours.
24 hours from payment and a complete plan set, Monday to Friday. Orders after 2 pm Friday are delivered by Monday. Read the full terms.