Your submission package
The submission package is what you take to council. It's the lodgement-ready set of documents Draftly prepares from everything you've done in the earlier steps.
What's in it
The package brings together your verified site information, your placed design, the compliance check, and your approval pathway — whether the project is exempt, complying, or needs a development application. It's assembled so a council or a certifier can read it without you re-keying anything.
For Victorian projects, the cover sheet also stamps the exact planning scheme relied upon — scheme name, amendment number and gazettal date — plus a link to the official gazetted scheme PDF, so the certifier can see precisely which wording the design was checked against.
Your approval pathway
Every package states your pathway clearly:
- Exempt — no planning permit required.
- Complying — meets the deemed-to-comply pathway.
- Needs a DA — a development application is required.
A complying result may still need a building permit; the package says so plainly rather than overstating the outcome. See Approval pathways.
About your drawings
Every drawing sheet follows the conventions a certifier expects to see:
- A title block on every sheet carrying the project and client details, drawing title and number, revision, date, scale, sheet size (for example A3), who drew and checked it, and the originating organisation.
- A third-angle projection symbol, the Australian convention, next to the sheet number.
- True drawing scales wherever the sheet geometry allows it (for example 1:50 or 1:200), instead of a generic "not to scale". Sheets that genuinely can't carry a meaningful scale — like computation pages — say NTS honestly.
- Structural callouts in millimetres, matching how members are specified and ordered in Australia.
Getting your documents
Draftly is free to use as you build your project. When you're ready to take the package away, you download or print it. For how downloading and printing work, see Saving and exporting your work.
An important note
Draftly's planning facts come from official government sources, and engineering figures are indicative — always confirm them with your engineer or certifier before you lodge. See Data and accuracy.