Land iQ
Pinpoint the best site for your land–use project in minutes with Land iQ.
How built environment professionals deliver outstanding results in planning and property delivery with LandIQ.
Land iQ – Transform the way you plan
If you're a planning professional and are new to the Land iQ tool, we invite you to try it out for your next project.
Sign-up for a free 2 week free trial including full onboarding support:
- Go to Land iQ help desk.
- Enter your email address.
- Click 'Sign-up with a password' and you will receive an email from Land iQ to set up a password.
- Sign-in to Land iQ help desk and fill out the Expression of Interest form.
If you have any questions, or would like a briefing on the Land iQ platform and what it can do for your next project, contact the Land iQ customer support team. You must have a Land iQ account to contact the customer support team.
World–first data platform for use of land
Land iQ is a world–first data platform that helps planning and property professionals make faster, smarter decisions about the use of land. It is a digital tool for strategically evaluating land use, using maps to visualise and analyse data.
Developed by Property and Development NSW, Land iQ is already powering smarter decisions across NSW Government agencies, local councils, universities and the property and planning sectors.
Land iQ – identifying sites for new homes
Testimonial
As a strategic planner working in a local government, Land IQ has been a game–changer. It has empowered me to produce professional–grade designs and plans, and to do complex research in–house; saving in consultancy fees and delivering immediate results."
Nicholas Knezevic
Strategic Project Officer
Subscription licences now available
Subscription licences for Land iQ are now available, giving you uninterrupted access to Government sponsored data and a land use planning technology platform.
Your licence unlocks access to:
- the full Land iQ web application, including all modules
- over 200 curated spatial datasets including high-resolution imagery from Aerometrex's Metromap
- the full suite of native Giraffe tools and functionality
- onboarding training and customer support.
Licence Terms
General Land iQ licence
- Licence cost – $8,000 plus GST per user licence per annum, on a minimum 12–month term.
Public sector and Aboriginal organisation licences
- Early access – first 200 licences sold: $4,000 plus GST per user for a licence for 12 months across 2026 (January – December).
- Free access – as part of the early access licence, free access to Land iQ will be provided for the remainder of 2025.
If you’re an existing Land iQ user and are ready to lock in your subscription access:
- Sign in to Land iQ help desk.
- Fill out the Purchase a licence form.
- We will send you a completed order form and Terms of Use for review. Once signed, your access and training will begin.
| Item | Details |
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| Licensee | Defined as the representative of the organisation who is authorised to purchase and make payment for Land iQ licence(s). |
| User | Defined as the designated user who will be granted access to Land iQ. |
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| Commencement date (initial term) | The licence, and access to Land iQ, shall commence on the date following the execution of this agreement by both parties. |
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| Payment due date | Payment is due 30 days from the date of the invoice. |
| Terms of use | The Licensee agrees to the terms of use appended to the licence agreement. |
| Execution | Licence can be signed by electronic signature so long as the person signing has the authority to sign. |
Features and uses
- Data library: Land iQ leverages a comprehensive catalogue of cutting edge 2D and 3D data from a range of government and external sources to provide an interactive 3D map interface and provide users with smarts and analytic insights, to know more about the area or asset they are investigating.
- Site search: advanced, multiple-criteria site searching including size, planning controls, and proximity to services, infrastructure, amenities, constraints and more.
- Shortlisting: a powerful functionality for managing and revisiting a selection of properties from your site search results with the ability to add custom columns and create detailed scoring sets allowing for a more personalised and thorough evaluation of sites. Ranking sites based on both database attributes and user-generated values can help users make more nuanced decisions.
- GeoInsight: a comprehensive analysis of a particular location against benchmarks and other geographies.
- Scenario planning: analysis of land-use scenarios to understand the effect of change in use across social, economic, environmental and financial metrics.
- Automated reports: Generate automated site analysis and due diligence reports across multiple properties automatically, saving hours of manual document preparation and leveraging the comprehensive Land iQ database and spatial library.
- Collaboration: delivers an in-house solution and makes it easier for government and industry to work together in a collaborative environment for sharing projects, datasets and developing scenarios to test potential use of land.
- Urban and regional planning: undertake strategic, statutory, and policy planning.
- Property: detailed site identification and assessment, property insights and due-diligence, portfolio management, and valuation.
- Risk and resilience: risk assessment and planning for resilience, particularly concerning climate pressures and natural hazards.
- Scenario planning: enhanced scenario capabilities enable testing of bulk rezoning of areas providing a robust digital visualisation planning tool that uses urban analytics to support master and precinct planning and local area rezoning.
- Report generation: fast creation of detailed planning, property, and development reports.
- Map creation: streamline creating and customising maps for projects, zoning, and hazard visualisation.
- Research: comprehensive state-wide datasets maintained by Land iQ provide an excellent source of information to conduct research for policy development as well as discrete research projects by the University sector.
Land iQ – Housing affordability crisis
Smarter land use across government and industry
Land iQ was developed by Property and Development NSW (PDNSW) in collaboration with agencies across NSW Government and in partnership with WSP Australia, Giraffe and Aerometrex. It reduces the number of related, yet different, methods and tools used across government to assess the effects of different land uses.
Land iQ brings more than 200 data sources and 75 land-use data types into a single platform to allow for faster and smarter strategic evaluations of how land can be used. The platform uses smart technology to speed up planning processes. It helps unlock more homes for people by spotting planning barriers and exploring ways to provide practical solutions across the state.
Land iQ has been used to lead the NSW Government’s Property Audit to analyse government land that could be used for more housing. It also supported the delivery of emergency housing in Northern NSW, as part of the Government’s 2022 flood response.
Land iQ has been rolled out across NSW Government agencies and to 128 NSW local councils. The platform is now available to other levels of government, researchers and industry with access through a subscription licence.
Land iQ is a living platform that will evolve and adapt to the future needs of users, using new digital resources as they become available.
Land iQ – Northern Rivers Reconstruction Authority
Frequently asked questions
There are many bespoke methods, tools and systems used across government and the planning and property sectors for analysing land use. Land iQ combines all of these in one place along with advanced technology and insights to streamline planning processes.
There are currently over 200 data sources in Land iQ’s spatial data library. This includes an expanding suite of data from open access sources, government data sources and indicators.
Land iQ can be used to:
- identify sites with a set of criteria
- do site layouts or feasibility studies
- make preliminary assessment of business cases
- support strategic planning and development assessment by analysing the local context from a street or suburb scale, to the local government area and regional context
This helps planners and property professionals understand the existing economic, social, demographic, cultural and environmental context.
Land iQ has already supported a variety of high-profile government projects, including the Housing Recovery Taskforce to find and analyse sites for temporary accommodation. It continues to serve as a critical tool in the delivery of the NSW Government property audit for housing.
Land iQ provides a consistent way of identifying sites for government and the planning and property sectors.
Land iQ can be used to:
- identify areas of priority for housing development (and type of housing) and shortlist sites using multi-criteria search
- assess site and local government area resilience and impacts for planning tasks and considerations for site development
- do preliminary site due diligence using the data library
- display how the delivery of critical infrastructure aligns with developing new homes
- generate or upload 3D designs to understand built form and environmental impacts
- use all modules to combine relevant data, strategic plans, state environmental planning policies and analytics to assess development applications or rezoning proposals.
No, not as a complete tool, which is why we went to market in 2021 to find a development partner. Certain aspects, like the spatial viewer platform Giraffe, already existed. We have built on these in the development of Land iQ.
Land iQ has been rolled out across NSW Government agencies and to 128 NSW local councils. The platform is available toother levels of government, researchers and industry with access through a subscription licence.