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SOURCE: ACTMAPI CADASTRE (ACT GOVERNMENT, CC BY 4.0), QUERIED LIVE · DRAWN BY PROPERTYFLAGS · MAP GEOMETRY, NOT A SURVEY: DEPOSITED PLAN DIMENSIONS PREVAIL
13 checks ran against official registers. How to read the flags: the three colours are a prioritised checklist, not a rating. Red means check this point first: an official register has an entry here, and the next step is to confirm what it means with the authority that keeps that register, or through your conveyancer. A red flag describes a register entry, not the property itself; entries can be broad, provisional or apply to only part of a property, and only the source can confirm how one applies to you. Yellow means worth reviewing in its section below. Green means the register we checked returned no entry for this location, which is evidence, not a guarantee.
The colours set your reading order; they do not judge the property. Flags are a count of findings to review, never a score and never a verdict; this report makes no recommendation for or against any decision, and what you do with a finding always stays with you and your advisers. If a source does not respond it is shown as unavailable, never as green.
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Every row has a detailed section below with the evidence, what to do about it, and the official source. Major and minor checks count equally here.
An AI reads every section below and writes this summary for you, in plain English, in the order that actually matters for your decision. It doesn't add facts, it only explains the ones already sourced below.
"Not mapped" means the ACT layers show nothing at this point: it is not a guarantee. The flood layer is a single modelled band (in or out of the 1% AEP extent); it says nothing about rarer floods or local stormwater. Bushfire designation follows the Strategic Bushfire Management Plan and brings construction standards with it.
Elsewhere in Red Hill: 9 registered sites, e.g. s25 b16 (The Precinct); s26 b8 (The Precinct).
Read this carefully: absence is not all-clear. Canberra is the epicentre of the "Mr Fluffy" loose-fill asbestos legacy: about 1,023 homes were affected, and almost all have been bought back and demolished. The register lists only the 17 premises that still contain (or may contain) loose-fill asbestos: demolished and remediated blocks are not listed, so a clear result here does not mean this block was never affected. For any home built before 1980, ask Access Canberra for the free loose-fill asbestos property history check on this exact block before you commit.
No register entries were found within 500 m either.
Within 500 m, 1 nearby entry is nominated for the Register but not yet registered.
Most established residential blocks have none; overlays concentrate on public land, reserves and special precincts.
6 recent amendments listed with closed notification windows. Plan changes are territory-wide instruments, worth re-checking when you get serious about an area.
An easement means someone else (usually a utility or a neighbour) has a permanent legal right to use or access a strip of the block for a specific purpose: sewer, water, gas, electricity or stormwater lines are the common ones in Canberra. You can't build over that strip, and it can rule out a pool, an extension or a second dwelling in that spot. Unusually, the ACT's map states each easement's purpose. Most states leave you guessing until the title search.
RZ1 · Suburban. The ACT has one planning scheme for the whole territory (the Territory Plan), so there are no council-by-council rules. Zone RZ1 sets what can be built here and next door; since the 2023 planning reform the rules are outcome-based district policies rather than fixed numeric controls, so there is no simple mapped height or floor-space number to quote. What the zone permits is a question worth putting to your conveyancer or the district policy text.
Title reference (volume:folio): 203:21 · deposited plan AP2244, POL167, X9085, DP1084 · district: Canberra Central. The ACT addresses land by block and section rather than lot and plan: the block/section/division key above is what every ACT register (contamination, asbestos, DAs) is keyed on, and it's how this report cross-checked them.
Ground level here is about 640.3 m above sea level (estimated from a 1-second national elevation model, ~30 m grid, coarser than survey data; useful for a broad sense of height, not a build level).
Slope: sampling ~60 m around this point suggests a rise of about 5 m (~8% grade), an estimate, not a survey. A noticeable but manageable fall, worth checking drainage and any retaining walls.
Unlike every state, the ACT has no freehold: "buying" here means acquiring the remainder of a 99-year Crown lease over Block 10 Section 45 Red Hill. In practice leases are routinely renewed for a small fee, so the market treats it much like ownership, but the lease has a purpose clause that legally limits what the land may be used for, and changing it (for example to add a second dwelling) triggers a lease variation charge. Rent is nominal; the lease terms are the real constraint.
What this report can confirm free of charge: title reference 203:21, the block/section identity on page 10. What it can't: the lease purpose clause, remaining term and any concessional status live in ACTLIS (ACT Land Information System), the paid title search: have your conveyancer pull it before exchange; it is the ACT equivalent of a title search and is not optional.
Not unit-titled: this is a standalone block held under its own Crown lease, with no owners corporation or body-corporate levies attached.
How many homes? This report deliberately doesn't claim a number: since 1 July 2026 the dwelling count for multi-unit housing in RZ1 is guided by site context and density guidance in the technical specification, not a single mapped figure: anyone quoting one is guessing. Subdivision may also be physically possible: the block is about 2× the 350 m² minimum for a new RZ1 block, and a straight two-way split would leave each block roughly 7 m of street frontage (an estimate from cadastral geometry, not a survey), but minimum block widths, access, services and design rules are not checked here and usually reduce or prevent it.
Two ACT-specific catches: "building" here usually starts with varying the Crown lease's purpose clause (a lease variation charge applies, reduced by half for eligible missing-middle projects until June 2029), and unit-titling thresholds also changed with the reform: confirm the current unit-titling position for this block with a planner; it is not in the layers this report checks.
Estimated street frontage of this block: toward Investigator Street · frontage ~13 m wide · block area ~703 m². Frontage direction and width are estimates from cadastral geometry.
Canberra winters make orientation a first-order question. North-facing living areas get all-day winter sun; south-facing ones get none. With the winter sun this low, buildings to the north cast shadows ~1.7× their height.
Which way the living areas actually face is not in any dataset: check it at the inspection, ideally on a winter afternoon.
Fibre to the Node: fibre stops at a street cabinet and the run to the home is old copper; attainable speed depends heavily on copper distance and varies house by house.
Snapshot vintage: this comes from the Australian Government's official July 2020 technology map (this area ready for service 22/02/2019). nbn's fibre-upgrade program has since moved many FTTN/FTTC addresses to full fibre. Treat it as the baseline and check today's status for this exact address at nbn.com.au (free, takes a minute).
Copper-tail addresses are the NBN lottery: two houses on the same street can get very different maximum speeds. Ask the current occupants what speed they actually get, or ask the real estate agent for the address's attainable-speed check.
These are transmitter sites from the national licence register, a proximity signal, not a coverage map: terrain, building materials and indoor position all change real signal. "5G mid-band" means a 3.5 GHz (5G-only spectrum) transmitter is licensed at that site, the band behind 5G's speed claims; its reach is shorter than 4G bands, so distance matters more. The only test that counts is your own phone at the inspection, in the rooms you'll actually use.
No light rail stop within 2.5 km. The light rail currently runs one corridor (Gungahlin to the city); for the rest of Canberra, buses and driving are the commute.
These are shortcuts: each number is pulled from a full section further down, where you'll find the detail behind it, the source, and the fine print.
A renter-heavy, young-professional area feels very different day-to-day from an owner-occupied family one.
This address falls in 3 priority enrolment areas. Under the ACT Education Directorate's current policy, living in a school's priority enrolment area (PEA) entitles your child to a place at that school. PEA boundaries can change: confirm the current area with the school before you rely on it.
7 schools of all sectors within 2 km, nearest is Red Hill Primary School at ~452 m. Priority enrolment areas above are the official ACT catchments: unlike distance lists, they are what the Directorate's placement policy is based on. The nearest school is not always your PEA school.
⚠ PEA boundaries are street-level: an address a few doors away can fall in a different area, and a school you can see from the driveway is not necessarily yours. If a particular school is part of why you want this home, confirm this exact address with the school before you commit.
NQS (National Quality Standard) ratings from the ACECQA (Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority) national register: Exceeding is above the standard, Meeting is at it, Working Towards is below.
Licensed venues close by can mean night-time noise and closing-time foot traffic: walk past on a Friday night before deciding.
Selected property offences only, 2024 Q3 Jul-Sep to 2025 Q2 Apr-Jun compared with the same four quarters a year earlier (2023 Q3 Jul-Sep to 2024 Q2 Apr-Jun), for the whole of Red Hill suburb, not this street.
Genuinely leafy, even by Canberra standards: established shade and a cooler summer streetscape. Suburb-level mapping, 2020 vintage. Within 60 m of this address the 2020 survey mapped 20 mature tree crowns (tallest ~24.5 m). Established trees shape shade, leaf litter and what you can build near them. Note the ACT also protects many unregistered trees over size thresholds: removal generally needs approval.
The FUA overlay (queried live) doesn't cover this address: the estate-development growth-front outlook that comes with that overlay doesn't apply here. This says nothing about individual development applications nearby; those are on the next page.
8 other applications within ~400 m, 1 still active (not yet decided). Recent ones:
Generated from this report's findings. Take them to the inspection. An agent must not knowingly mislead you, so direct questions on the record are worth asking.
"Exchange" is the legal moment you and the seller swap signed contracts and the sale becomes binding. Everything below is worth doing before that point, while the decision is still fully yours. Generated from this report's findings. This is a preparation list, not legal or financial advice: the professionals it points to are the ones who advise.
Hazard checks (flood, Bushfire Prone Area, high-voltage transmission lines) · Contaminated sites register (EPA ACT) · Loose-fill asbestos (Mr Fluffy) Affected Residential Premises Register · Heritage Register, incl. nominations not yet decided · Territory Plan overlays · Territory Plan amendments on exhibition · Easements (with stated purpose) · Zoning (Territory Plan land-use zone) · Cadastre, block/section geometry, ground elevation & slope · Leasehold & unit-title fields · Getting around (light rail, bus, road hierarchy) · Licensed venues (liquor licence register) · School locations & priority enrolment areas · Tree canopy & mature tree crowns · Development applications (DA Finder).
Sun angles, day length & shadow geometry (standard solar-position formulas (NOAA), not a data query, so it doesn't go stale) · Development potential pre-tests (baked rule table from the Territory Plan as amended 1 July 2026, applied to the live block and zone figures above, not a separate live layer).
Loose-fill asbestos register (2026-06-30) · Bus & light rail timetables (2026-07-27) · Childcare centres & ratings (2026-07-27) · Emergency departments (AIHW) (2026-07-20) · Tree canopy & mature tree crowns (2020 vintage) · Property crime (ACT Policing) (PROMIS as at 7 July 2025).
Neighbourhood demographics are the 2021 ABS Census (queried live, but the figures describe 2021; the next Census runs August 2026).
Ground elevation and block slope from national elevation-model sampling · frontage direction and width from cadastral geometry · walking distances (all distances are straight-line unless labelled otherwise).
Coverage this run: every source we query responded: no section is missing from this report.