The Victorian subdivision delivery map
Same arc as the companion article, laid out as a diagram instead of prose. Click a stop to see who has to sign off, what gets tracked, and where that phase typically loses time. Free to use — nothing to sign in for, nothing to download.
By Engis · 26 Aug 2026
The map
Planning Permit
- Who signs off
- Responsible authority (council) under the Planning and Environment Act.
- Tracked in Engis
- Submitted / approved dates, plus a conditions field on the project record.
The permit conditions arrive as one PDF covering every downstream authority — the register work that turns it into a tracked list either starts here or costs weeks later.
How the condition register is builtWhy detail design forks into two tracks
On a project programme, “detailed design” usually appears as one bar. It isn’t one approval — it’s two parallel tracks with separate reviewers, separate review clocks, and a habit of reopening each other: council engineering reviews roads and drainage; the water corporation reviews sewer and water. A change forced by one can force a resubmission on the other. That’s why the map shows them side by side rather than as a single stop.
The same shape repeats earlier and later in the arc. The Functional Layout Plan is reviewed by the water corporation and drainage authority together, and its comments are the cheapest place to catch a disagreement that would otherwise surface as a detailed-design rejection two stops later. Estate Major Works and construction both sit on authority acceptance, not just internal sign-off. Statement of Compliance needs every one of those authorities to have separately consented before council can issue it.
How Engis tracks the arc
The eight stops on the map are the same phase model a project runs through inside Engis — planning permit, functional layout plan, detail design (roads & drainage and sewer & water as separate submission tracks), estate major works, tender, construction, and Statement of Compliance. Each design submission carries a discipline, a named authority, a revision, and a status that moves through submitted, under review, comments received, and approved — so a resubmission cycle shows up as a record, not a memory.
Beyond the phase tracker
Underneath the phase-by-phase view, Engis runs a dependency-aware construction programme — finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish links with lag days — with a critical-path pass that flags which tasks are carrying zero slack. The project map alongside it renders live Vicmap parcels, PLANVIC zoning and overlays, Melbourne Water flood and drainage assets, and SEW/YVW/GWW mains and hydrants, so the authority context for every stop on this map is visible without leaving the project.
See this arc run as one live project.
The map above is free reference content. Request sandbox access on synthetic data, or book a 20-minute demo, to see the same eight phases tracked against a real project.