Land Parcel and Property

Description

Land Parcel and Property contains a record of interests in land. The data has geographical descriptions that allow users to link to information describing ownership, value of real property in a district and nature of the boundary

A land parcel is an area of land with defined boundaries, under unique ownership for specific real property rights.

A property is something that is capable of being owned, either in the form of real property (land) or personal property (chattels). The interest can involve physical aspects, such as the use of land, or conceptual rights, such as a right to use the land in the future.

The cadastre is an up to date parcel based land information system which contains a record of interests in land (i.e. rights, restrictions and responsibilities). The cadastre includes a geometric description of land parcels linked to other records describing the nature of the interests, the ownership or control of those interests, and often the value of the parcel and its improvements.

A cadastral product or service visualises the boundaries of land parcels, often buildings on land, the parcel identifier, basic topographic features and sometimes boundary corner monumentation.

The land parcel and property theme provides the basic fabric of land ownership. It comprises the national cadastral database and associated parcel and property information.

Descriptive data includes the identifier, tenure, ownership type, size, value, land use and legal rights or restrictions associated with each separate land object.

Datasets

Land Parcels - This dataset contains a seamless national database of cadastral boundaries, excluding easements and road drainage easements, and parcel identifiers which are compatible with jurisdictional land titles.

Land Tenure - This dataset is a hierarchical classification of land parcels; aligning land tenure classifications to cadastral parcel identifiers

Purpose

Land and property data underpins the economic, social and environmental fabric of Australia and is used primarily to:

• Display extent of allowable use of land
• Provides a link between mapping and land titles making land management easier and more reliable
• Provides spatial representation of land ownership types for cadastral parcels
• Manage Title and Tenure, Nature Conservation, Heritage Protection, Defence, and Disaster Management
• Improve infrastructure and property development planning
• Inform water and carbon accounting programs

Current Status

CadLite® contains 14.7 million legal land parcels across Australia and property extents as defined by valuations. PSMA's Land Tenure product contains at least one tenure record for each land parcel. It requires the use of CadLite® to enable visualisation for the user.

Both these datasets:

• Are aggregated from the jurisdictions land and property information data sets.
• Are updated by PSMA quarterly.
• Are available through commercial re-sellers.
• Have edge matching issues at jurisdictional boundaries.
• Vary in positional accuracy from sub metre accuracy in the urban areas to 10m+ in some rural and remote areas.
• Vary in currency with some jurisdictions providing planned parcel information and others only as built with up to 6 month time delay

There is currently no single vertical integration of the Land Parcel and Property theme for the national coverage.

Future Status

The national land parcels and property data will be provided as a nationally consistent land parcel and property dataset which will support and deliver this information through the vertical and horizontal integration of the listed datasets. This will allow linking of location of these features across all themes. The dataset will include:

• Matching with address data and a unique parcel identifier
• Daily updates
• A spatial accuracy of 1–10 metres
• A consistent, edge matched national coverage
• All planned parcel information
• Other information about associated property identifiers (Lot on a Deposited Plan)
• Easement information
• A single point of access to information on rights, responsibilities and restrictions over land regardless of who imposes them:
  • Information about planned and actual land use
  • Information on land valuation
  • Information about development approvals
  • The ability for properties to be displayed in 3D
• A two-way mechanism for users to feedback information on perceived errors, omissions or other issues will be provided.

The ANZLIC Committee on Survey and Mapping (ICSM) has develop a National Strategy ‘CADASTRE 2034 Powering Land and Real Property’ to address future needs for Land Parcels and Property.

A comprehensive 3 year road map, that addresses how the FSDF sponsors, custodians, users and suppliers will progress to the desired future state, will be delivered to the ANZLIC Council in August 2014 by the FSDF Sponsor and subsequently released.

Standards

• AS/NZS ISO 19131:2008 Geographic Information – Data product specifications.

Access and Licensing

Products and services relating to this theme are distributed by PSMA and are available through commercial resellers under a PSMA licence.

Related Websites

https://www.psma.com.au/products

Coverage

National Coverage of Australia

Sponsor

Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM)

Key Users

Key users of the land parcel and property are Commonwealth, State and Territory and Local governments and the Research and Industry sectors.

Additional

Additional information

Version

1.0