Revolutionising Infrastructure Planning for Growing Communities

Your ultimate tool for seamless infrastructure planning and funding.

Transform complex documents into an interactive, easily understandable platform that enhances communication between planners and the development industry. Instantly calculate levies, compare scenarios and estimate the costs of delivering infrastructure projects. Parsel saves time, cuts costs and eliminates errors – revolutionising the way you plan for growing communities.

To address the complexity and lack of transparency in development contributions, we created Parsel, a publicly accessible web-based spatial planning tool that consolidates all relevant information into one interactive platform.

Parsel does not replace existing Development Contributions Plans (DCPs). Instead, it translates static documents into a dynamic, easy-to-use interface. Users can query any property or infrastructure project to instantly calculate land budget details, contribution charges payable, and potential credits for delivering infrastructure as works-in-kind. Queries can be tailored to individual properties or span multiple sites and projects. Parsel streamlines in response to planners’ need to interact with DCPs in real time. DCPs are essential for funding infrastructure in growing communities, yet they are often lengthy, static documents that span 20 to 30 years and involve billions in contributions. The static nature of these documents means councils and planners must rely on manual processes and outdated records to assess liabilities and credits, which slows down decision-making and service delivery.

Parsel was shaped through extensive engagement with government planners and development industry stakeholders. Their insights ensured the platform meets the real-world needs and expectations of its users.

Creating infrastructure funding plans is essential for delivering vital facilities such as roads, schools, parks and utilities to growing communities. These plans are often complex and resource-intensive to prepare, making it critical for councils to clearly communicate their benefits to the broader community. The development industry also plays a key role in implementation, often contributing to infrastructure delivery through levies and funding mechanisms. Parsel helps bridge the gap between planning intent and financial strategy, making infrastructure planning more transparent, collaborative and future ready. While Parsel is extremely helpful to the development industry, it is also a powerful communication tool for councils, enabling executives to understand DCPs from both spatial and financial perspectives, supporting proactive planning for future infrastructure.

Planners endorse Parsel as a movement towards greater efficiency and streamlined processes within planning.

The planning industry has a rich history of understanding and manually understanding the necessary data to manage the funding of growth areas, helping to establish new towns, cities, and communities. Parsel sets planning forward by driving the extrapolation of planners’ expertise through emerging technologies. It supports a shift in decision-making and scenario testing, allowing planners to explore growth options, assess infrastructure needs, and engage with local entities like councils through spatial and live communication using accurate metrics.

Applying Parsel to a Funding Framework Project goes beyond just a live indexation but unlocks efficiencies in daily use and functional queries revolving around a funding framework – bringing clarity, automation and live data into the hands of planners, councils and stakeholders. 

Customisable to local IFFs, DCPs, ICPs, Parsel proposes to build upon to outperform but still include the scope of this project. It’s fit for purpose extends the generic indexed document. By linking key infrastructure to the identified precincts in the preferred structure plan, the Parsel platform will calculate the proportion of each infrastructure project that relates to each respective growth precinct selected.  Parsel is powerful in estimating the total cost of infrastructure projects selected instantly,  providing a spatial planning tool where the user can select any number of growth scenarios and infrastructure projects. Parsel also has the ability to export the various growth scenarios chosen into tabular form where the delivery sequencing timing can be added and multiple scenarios can be compared and evaluated.   

Parsel was recognised by the UDIA Proptech Awards in 2024, highlighting its role in advancing innovation in planning.

As interest in emerging technologies grows across the planning sector, Parsel is designed to meet the evolving needs of municipalities and support sustainable growth. Powered by Mesh, Parsel continues to evolve – unlocking new possibilities for planning across multiple dimensions.