Subdividing your landÂ
Understand the processes and requirements for electricity connections when subdividing your land.
Subdivision assessment
All new real estate subdivision developments are assessed as a subdivision application and offered a standard connection service. This includes dual occupant Torrens Title subdivisions and Community Title subdivisions, but excludes strata developments.
Council conditions
Depending on the scope of your proposal, your local council may require you to lodge a subdivision application, a development application and a building application. They may also impose conditions of consent, which need to be met before development can proceed.
In most cases, a consent certificate is required to obtain a Notification of Arrangement (NOA) from us. This confirms that you’ve arranged for electricity to be supplied to your development and you have met all associated costs and service requirements.
Once you have met all the conditions of consent, you'll be able to register your subdivision plan with the Land Titles office and be able to proceed with your development.
We may require the developer to grant Land Interests, to allow maintenance and operations activities to proceed.
Notification of arrangement for subdivisions
Before approving a subdivision for registration, local councils may require developers to show proof that suitable arrangements have been made for electricity supply to the site.
The NOA issued by the local network service provider satisfies this requirement.
To arrange electricity supply for a subdivision, developers must first submit an application and accept the offer for a standard connection service, covering both subdivision and asset relocation requirements.
Once all the servicing requirements are met, we will issue an NOA which can be taken to the local council to meet the consent conditions of your development approval.
We will normally issue an NOA after the following conditions are met:
Development consent has been granted by the local council
Suitable electricity supply arrangements have been made by the developer, to provide the electrical infrastructure required by us to service each lot within the subdivision
All fees and charges associated with the provision of network connection services have been paid
Request for early notification of arrangement
To assist developers in reducing the overall time for finalising subdivisions, we may issue an early NOA after the following conditions have been met:
- At least 80% of the electricity network has been constructed
- A copy of the ASP1 quote for the construction work, for setting the value of the bond, has been provided
- An early notification bond, equivalent to 100% of the construction cost, in the form of an unconditional bank guarantee, has been paid. We may use the bond to complete the works in the event that the applicant fails to have the works completed to our satisfaction.
Compliance certificate for strata developments
Before lodging a strata plan, council may require the owner of a strata title development, to provide proof that suitable arrangements have been made for electricity supply to the site.
This proof is provided through a compliance certificate issued by Endeavour Energy, confirming that the developer has submitted an application and has satisfied the conditions of the relevant connection service.
In order for developers to make the necessary arrangements for supply to their strata development, they must first lodge an application for supply to the development and have satisfied the standard or LV basic connection service offer that has been issued for the provision of the connection of load service.
After all the terms and conditions of the connection offer have been satisfied, a 'Permission to Connect' letter is issued.
If requested, we will issue a compliance certificate relating to the provision of electricity to the development which a developer can then take to their local council to meet the consent conditions of their development approval.
