Solutions // Warehouse & Logistics Site Screening
A planning and environment screening memo for warehouse and logistics candidates anywhere in Australia. 19 constraints checked against public spatial data: zoning, easements crossing the parcel, ecology triggers, heritage, flood and bushfire, with the operational freight task treated as intrinsic rather than incidental. The filter you run before spending real money on consultants, not a substitute for them.
The Evidence
This is the actual constraint table of the sample report: a 2.9 ha industrial-zoned infill lot in Laverton North, in Melbourne's west, the scale a single-facility warehouse actually gets built on. Each row carries its own rating and a separate data status, and in the full report each becomes a section with statutory references and sources. The screen found what really shapes logistics siting in this corridor: an easement crossing the lot, volcanic-plain grassland ecology nearby, the operational freight task rated as a primary assessment matter, and a nearest address point the report flags as possibly non-residential rather than quietly calling it a dwelling.
Location & Competition
Before the planning screen: how trucks get in and out, what is already built next door, and what is coming through the pipeline. From OpenStreetMap and the dataset only we can quote — our own tracked development applications.
Names are OSM labels where present; lease, tenant and floor-area data are not held.
OpenStreetMap at build time. Proximity only, not a traffic-capacity or swept-path assessment.
Our tracked records; council coverage varies, so zero means none tracked, not none lodged.
Laverton North is an industrial precinct (~119 residents). A warehouse here draws its workforce from the surrounding drive-shed, not the precinct — so we do not dress up its thin resident profile as a labour catchment.
ABS Census backdrop, not a hiring-market study: award wages and vacancy competition are not covered.
How It Works
No software to adopt, no seats, no onboarding. It slots in front of your existing consultant workflow as an early filter.
An address, coordinates or a boundary file. That is all we need to start.
19 constraints against state and federal spatial data: zoning, overlays, easements, bushfire, flooding, EPBC, heritage, soils and more. Ratings are weighted for a freight use: operational truck movements are intrinsic, so traffic is rated a primary assessment matter, and the on-site hazard question is framed around what you will store.
Freight access and the existing industrial estates and occupiers nearby, the incoming application pipeline and labour backdrop, then an overall verdict with per-constraint ratings, satellite exhibits, comparable approved logistics estates, and the recommended next checks a desktop screen cannot close out.
Honest by Design
Road network capacity. We map how close the motorway, interchange and arterials are, but no traffic counts, intersection performance or pavement data is queried. The screen rates the freight task as a primary assessment matter and tells you a Traffic Impact Assessment with intersection modelling is where the real answer lives. It does not pretend to be that assessment.
Floor area, lease and tenant economics. We name the estates and occupiers around the site from OpenStreetMap, but gross-lettable-area, rent evidence, who leases which shed and tenant demand stay with your agency advice.
The hiring market and your goods profile. The labour block is the Census backdrop of the drive-shed, not award wages, vacancy competition or recruiter supply. And whether dangerous-goods licensing applies depends on what you store, which the report frames against state DG thresholds instead of guessing.
What the screen does close out early, from public data:
Coverage varies by state and the report says so per constraint: Victorian screens run with full layer coverage; in NSW the Aboriginal heritage register is access restricted and council flood mapping is partial, so those constraints are reported pending there, not assumed clear. This is a preliminary desktop screen to support early site selection; it is not planning advice, and it does not replace the specialist assessments a development application requires.
Field Guides
The research behind this screen is free to read. Every guide below is built on real screens of real parcels and our national development application database.
Every screen runs on the same live planning-data engine behind daleads.com.au, built and run by Bo Wang, a Monash-trained developer working in Australian PropTech.
No inflated case studies, no borrowed logos. The sample report on this page is a real screen you can read end to end, pending items and all.
Pricing
A consultant desktop constraints study typically runs to five figures and takes weeks. This screen exists so you only commission those for sites that survive the first cut.
Constraints that cannot be assessed from public data are disclosed as pending, never padded. If the screen returns materially less than the sample report shows for your state, we will say so before you pay.
Free instant teaser
Type a candidate address and get a free sliver of the screen in seconds, straight from the same live database the paid report runs on: the planning zone at the point, development application activity around it, and what has been lodged nearby. The full 19-constraint screen with verdict and statutory references is the paid report.
Have a shortlist?
Run the free teaser on your address, then request the screen. We reply with a sample section and scope confirmation as soon as we can.