Quantifying the impacts of moving to digital plans in NSW

A survey plan is a document which defines the extent of a land parcel property. It is central to the Torrens Title system, which applies to the majority of privately owned land in NSW. In NSW it is a requirement that every privately owned current parcel is based on a survey plan which defines its boundaries.

Over recent years, NSW has been progressively moving towards a fully digital land title system. With manual paper-based systems becoming increasingly obsolete, the NSW Government has been considering options to transition from paper to digital survey plans.

The Office of the Registrar General commissioned the Centre for International Economics to prepare a cost benefit analysis (CBA) of various options for transitioning to digital survey plans.

LINK TO CIE REPORT