Alterations to plans prior to registration
A plan lodged for registration can be altered or amended prior to registration. Any such alterations or additions should be made with due consideration to acceptable standards of lettering and line work.
The onus rests with the surveyor to resolve errors or omissions.
The only person permitted to amend a plan prepared and signed by a registered surveyor is:
- that surveyor, or
- an authorised person who has the written authority of that surveyor, to attend to requisitions and/or amendments being:
- another registered surveyor, or
- a person authorised to complete minor amendments that do not entail additional survey work and who have access to a NSW LRS Connect shared workspace or,
- an officer of NSW LRS acting under legislative authority.
Plans originally lodged electronically via NSW LRS Connect may only be amended by the surveyor lodging a new electronic version of the plan.
Plans originally lodged manually in NSW LRS (prior to the electronic plan lodgment mandate) must be electronically re-lodged via NSW LRS Connect.
Consent of the local council to alterations
The consent of the local council to alterations to any plan must be obtained where:
- The area of any lot is amended.
- The alteration(s) create extra lots or delete existing lots from the plan.
- Significant changes are made to the position of lot boundaries.
- Alterations to the boundaries result in buildings or structures now encroach across the boundary.
- Alterations are made to the position of an easement where the council is dominant tenement or has the power to release, vary or modify the easement.
Publication Date: July 2025