BASIX readiness checklist (free)
- Does your project need BASIX?
- Plans and details the tool asks for
- Water commitments
- Energy commitments
- Thermal performance
- Timing: within 3 months of the DA
Modeled on: NSW Planning Portal BASIX guidance
NSW home owners, builders and designers
Where is the new home or alteration?
Free BASIX checklist for a new NSW home or alteration: how the certificate is made, the 3-month rule for your DA and the Planning Portal fee.
- Free to read
- No sign-up until the draft
- Hands off to the right door
ePlan fills in
- Zone and lot
- Bush fire prone land
- BASIX timing
How it works
BASIX readiness checklist, from one answer
- Enter the address and what you're building.
- ePlan lists what the BASIX tool will ask and the timing for your DA.
- Read the checklist free. Builder with a CEMP condition? Start a CEMP draft.
What you get
BASIX readiness checklist and 2 more documents
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the CEMP door.
Statement of Environmental Effects
- Site
- Proposal
- Planning controls
- Impacts
Construction environmental management plan (CEMP)
- Noise and dust
- Sediment and stormwater
- Waste
- Complaints
From public data
What ePlan fills in, and from where
- Zone and lotNSW Planning Portal spatial viewer
- Bush fire prone landNSW Rural Fire Service
3 months
is the most time that can pass between a BASIX certificate being issued and the DA it goes with being submitted
Source: Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021 (NSW), s 27
Ready for the paperwork?
A construction environmental management plan drafted from your DA consent conditions: dust, noise, runoff, waste and hours. Free to read.
Questions
BASIX Certificate NSW: what people ask
How do I get a BASIX certificate?
You make it in the BASIX tool on the NSW Planning Portal. The certificate can be printed only after the design meets the BASIX targets and the fee is paid.
How old can the certificate be when I lodge my DA?
No more than 3 months. The Regulation says a DA for BASIX development must come with a BASIX certificate issued no earlier than 3 months before the application is submitted.
What does the Planning Portal charge?
The NSW Planning Portal's service fee list shows $5 for a BASIX certificate in 2025–26 and 2026–27.
The rules this door follows
Related doors
Other projects people start from here
Builders and developers with a CEMP consent condition
CEMP
Where is the site the CEMP covers?
Brisbane owners and tenants changing how a building is used
Brisbane Development Application
Where is the Brisbane property?
Owners building on bushfire prone blocks
BAL Assessment
Where is the block you're building on?
Farm stays, childcare centres and venues on bush fire prone land
Bushfire emergency management and evacuation plan
Where is the business that needs the plan?
NSW home owners lodging a development application
Statement of Environmental Effects
Where is the property for the DA?
NZ home owners whose project breaks a district plan rule
Resource Consent AEE for a Small Project
Where is the property needing consent?
BASIX Certificate NSW: check it free
Answer it and ePlan opens the CEMP door with your answer filled in.