Saturday, February 03, 2007

SPEAR - Electronic Subdivision

SPEAR covers the approval process for a number of Subdivision Act plans and includes the application for a planning permit, council certification and lodgment in Land Registry.

SPEAR allows applications to be electronically submitted to council, referred electronically for comment and tracked online from the initial planning stage through to lodgment and registration of the plan at Land Registry.

SPEAR is an internet system that enables a subdivision application to be lodged, managed, referred and tracked online. The system was developed by Land Victoria as part of its Land Exchange program.

SPEAR is comparable to an electronic mail box that stores data and allows subscribers to access this data. Its aim is to reduce the delays, duplication of data, double handling of documents and high administrative overheads that are characteristic of the current manual, paper based development approval process.

Source - Customer Information Bulletin DSE Jan 2007

SPEAR is up and running. The Plan is electronically uploaded to the Land Registry imaging system and digitally signed by Council and the Surveyor. Council digitally signs the Statement of Compliance.

The same principles that SPEAR is applying are the same as for the Electronic Conveyancing project and 247Legal is using with its Digital Conveyancing project.

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