Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 The Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, as enacted in 2017, requires proposed development to be rigorously assessed in relation to potential impacts on biodiversity. Part 6 of the Act sets
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au Lines on a map or legal access? Crown Roads are found generally in rural parts of NSW, and were created in order to ensure that every portion of land had legal access to
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au New South Wales has, for decades, maintained a world-class system of land titling. Early title in NSW was based on the English Common Law system of title, a system known as “Old System”.
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au When is a subdivision not a subdivision? When it is a boundary adjustment. A Boundary Adjustment or boundary realignment is a survey to change the boundaries between two or more lots of land
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au Most land in NSW is held under Torrens Title. Torrens Title is a form of title which offers a secure title to land, guaranteed by the state. Purchasers of land do not need
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au Geomorphic Assessment Macquarie River, Montefiores Geomorphology is a study of how land changes over time. Fluvial Geomorphology is a study of how watercourses change over time. This blog details work undertaken by Doherty
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au In order to own land in New South Wales, the details of the land and the legal owner are noted on a Register maintained by Land and Property Information NSW. The most secure
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au 10 metre rule? 20 metre rule? Who owns a river bank in NSW? There are many urban legends, myths, rumours, claims and stories claiming that there is a 10 metre rule or 20
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au LiDAR is a method of measuring distance using laser light. The light reflected from the measured surface is analysed and the data stored as a cloud of points. LiDAR data can be captured
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see more articles on our new website compasscs.com.au Electronic plan lodgement, or eplan, has been available in NSW for over 10 years, and allows plans to be lodged via a portal to Land and Property Information NSW (LPI NSW). Eplan users create a
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