User Guides

User Guide 1 – Creating a subdivision application in SPEAR

This guide provides advice to SPEAR applicants in creating a SPEAR application.

User Guide 2 – Receiving a new application in SPEAR

This guide provides advice to council users about what steps to perform when they first receive a new SPEAR application.

User Guide 3 – Referrals

This guide provides advice to council and Referral Authority (RA) users about how to refer a SPEAR application and how to respond to a referral request.

User Guide 4 – Advertising and Objections

This guide provides advice to councils and applicants regarding the advertising process for a SPEAR application and how objections are managed.

User Guide 5 – Additional Information Requests

This guide provides advice to councils, Referral Authorities and applicants about how to request, respond and assess requests for additional information for a SPEAR application.

User Guide 6 - Issuing a Planning Decision

This guide provides advice to council users about how to make a planning permit decision in SPEAR.

User Guide 7 – Application to Amend a Planning Permit

This guide provides advice to applicants and councils about applying for and amending a planning permit that has been issued in SPEAR.

User Guide 8 – Certifying a Plan and Issuing Statement of Compliance

This guide provides advice to councils and applicants about how Plans are certified and re-certified and the issuing of Statements of Compliance in SPEAR.

User Guide 9 – Releasing Documents for Lodgement at Land Victoria

This guide provides advice to applicants about releasing a certified plan and Statement of Compliance to the lodging party (solicitor or conveyancer acting for the client) for the purpose of lodgement at Land Victoria.

User Guide 10 – Adding Additional Survey Documents (Surveyors Report, Abstract of Field Records, Survey Marks)

This guide provides advice to applicants about how to provide supporting survey documents and survey mark details through SPEAR.

User Guide 11 – Lodging a SPEAR Plan at Land Victoria

This guide provides advice to applicants and lodging parties on how lodgement at Land Victoria occurs with a certified plan and Statement of Compliance issued using the SPEAR system.

User Guide 12 – Land Victoria Requisitions and Plan Amendments

This guide provides information on how amendments to a certified plan, abstract of field notes or surveyors report are handled in SPEAR.

User Guide 13 – What can the Public do in SPEAR?

This guide provides assistance to members of the public and registered SPEAR users about what functions are available to the public.

User Guide 14 – Responding to a Referral Request

This guide provides assistance to Referral Authorities on how to respond to referral requests in SPEAR.

User Guide 15 – Application Wizard

This guide assists SPEAR applicants with the preparation of an “Application for planning permit" for submission to council.

User Guide 16 – Amending a Planning Application

This guide provides advice to users wishing to modify an active SPEAR application.

User Guide 17 – Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

This guide provides information on how the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal processes are handled in SPEAR when an appeal is lodged against a SPEAR application.

User Guide 18 – Council Hosted Applications in SPEAR

This guide provides advice to councils wishing to submit or host applications in SPEAR on behalf of applicants who have submitted paper applications to council.

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