The short version
Landchecker is a property-intelligence platform. It brings together high-resolution aerial imagery, titles and plans, sales history, planning permit and development-application history, and zoning and overlay maps in one place — built for property research and due diligence. It serves agents, valuers, developers, lawyers, architects, planners and home owners across Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
PlanSuite answers a different question. It's an AI planning assessment platform for Victoria: it reads the planning scheme, works out whether a permit is required and why, and produces council-ready reports — across all 79 Victorian LGAs.
Put simply: Landchecker tells you what's there; PlanSuite tells you what you can do and writes it up. They're not really rivals — plenty of people use Landchecker for due diligence and PlanSuite for the planning answer.
Side by side
| PlanSuite | Landchecker | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Planning determination & council-ready reports | Property data, imagery & due diligence |
| "Do I need a permit?" | Answers it — with reasoning and a report | Surfaces the data for you to interpret yourself |
| Zones & overlays | Determines which actually affect the parcel (matched to the VicPlan report) and interprets them against the proposal | Displayed as map layers |
| Imagery, titles, sales & DA history | Not its focus | Extensive — high-resolution aerials, titles, sales and permit/DA history (a genuine strength) |
| Reports | Six council-ready statutory reports — Permit, Initial Assessment, Delegate, Subdivision, Town Planning, Compliance — in editable Word, PDF & HTML | Branded property data reports (PDF) |
| Coverage | Victoria — all 79 LGAs, in depth | Victoria, NSW & Queensland |
| Audience | Planners, councils, consultants, developers | Agents, valuers, developers, legal, architects, planners, home owners |
This comparison reflects our opinion, not an independent or impartial assessment. It is based on publicly available information as of May 2026, sourced from landchecker.com.au. Landchecker feature claims are quoted from their website.
Where PlanSuite is different
It answers the planning question. Landchecker shows you the data; PlanSuite reads the scheme and tells you whether a permit is required, on what grounds — and produces the assessment to back it.
VicPlan-accurate determinations. Beyond showing overlay map layers, PlanSuite works out which overlays actually affect a parcel — built to match the VicPlan property report a Victorian planner verifies against.
Reads the actual scheme. The AI reads the real planning ordinance text and cites the clauses it relied on, so the determination is verifiable against the scheme — not a map you have to interpret.
Six council-ready report types. Permit, Initial Assessment, Delegate, Subdivision, Town Planning Assessment and Compliance — exported as editable Word, plus PDF and HTML.
Minimum input from you. We know you hate filling out forms. PlanSuite works the answer out from what it can already see — your address, the plans you upload, and the live planning record behind them — so you do almost nothing and the results are still thorough.
When Landchecker is the better fit
Landchecker is excellent at what it does, and for a lot of work it's exactly the right tool:
- •You're doing property research or due diligence — titles, ownership, sales history and high-resolution aerial imagery.
- •You want to find sites or monitor nearby permits and development applications with alerts.
- •You need multi-state property data across Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
Where PlanSuite picks up is the next step: once you know the property, PlanSuite tells you what you can do on it and produces the council-ready planning report. Many people run both.
Get the planning answer, not just the data
Run a Victorian address and see PlanSuite determine the zones, overlays and whether a permit is required — with a council-ready report to match.
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