Cadastral Surveying Victoria

Licensed cadastral surveyors working across Melbourne and regional Victoria. We settle where your boundaries actually sit, and prepare the plans that get subdivisions, easements and strata developments registered. Talk to our cadastral team about your property today.

Where the Boundary Is, Not Where the Fence Is

Most property problems start the same way. Someone builds off a fence, splits a block on assumption, or inherits a title nobody has checked in forty years. By the time it surfaces there is a wall in the wrong place or a settlement on hold.

Cadastral surveying is the work that stops that happening. We research the title, the historical survey plans and the neighbouring records, then go out and find what is actually in the ground. The answer is often not where people expect.

Our cadastral team works across metro Melbourne and regional Victoria for property owners, builders, developers, conveyancers and solicitors. From a single boundary re-establishment through to a staged subdivision or a strata plan over a finished building, we prepare the documentation, lodge it through SPEAR, and see it through to registration.

"Outright Surveying has been my trusty surveying partner for close to a decade. The service I have received from their surveyors and management team has been second to none." Neville Sabu Alex Construction Manager - John Holland

15 Years of Cadastral Work Across Victoria

Outright Surveying has worked on Victorian property since 2009. Our cadastral team handles the title side of the business, and sits alongside the civil, building and scanning crews who work on the same sites.

We work with:

• Property owners and home builders
• Developers, from two lots to multi-stage estates
• Architects, designers and planning consultants
• Conveyancers, solicitors and legal practitioners
• Owners corporations and commercial landlords

That range matters on a subdivision. The surveyor who re-establishes your boundary can carry the same control through to the builder's setout, so nothing gets lost handing between firms.

Cadastral Surveying Services Across Melbourne and Victoria

Title Re-Establishment

A title re-establishment survey works out where your boundary legally sits, using the title dimensions, historical survey records and whatever physical evidence still survives on the ground.

On older Melbourne blocks the original pegs are usually long gone, replaced by fences that have been rebuilt two or three times. We research the neighbouring survey records as well as your own, because a boundary is defined by the whole cadastral fabric around it, not by one title in isolation.

You get marks back in the ground where they can be placed, plus the plan and documentation supporting the re-establishment.

Land Subdivision

Subdivision creates new titles, whether that is one extra lot at the back of a suburban block or a staged residential estate.

The survey work is the straightforward part. What slows subdivisions down is planning approvals, service authority requirements and the registration process, so we run the SPEAR lodgement ourselves and coordinate with councils, authorities and your planning consultant rather than handing you a plan and leaving you to it.

Plans come signed by a Victorian Licensed Surveyor and prepared for registration with Land Use Victoria.

Strata & Stratum Subdivision

Strata subdivision splits a building into individually owned lots with shared common property, the driveways, foyers, lifts and gardens. Stratum subdivision splits land or a building vertically into three dimensional lots, which is how a mixed-use tower separates retail, car parking, offices and apartments so each can be owned and managed separately.

Both need the completed works surveyed and the lot boundaries defined against what was actually built, not against the design drawings. Where they differ, and they often do, that has to be resolved before the plan can be registered.

Land Consolidation

Consolidation does the reverse of a subdivision. It combines two or more adjoining titles into a single parcel, removing the internal boundaries.

Owners consolidate to simplify ownership, to clear a title boundary running through the middle of a proposed building, or to set land up cleanly before resubdividing it a different way. Not every consolidation needs a full survey, and we will tell you at the assessment stage whether yours does.

Easement Surveys

Easements give someone a legal right over land they do not own, most commonly for drainage, sewerage, access, party walls and services.

They get created during subdivision, varied when a development changes what runs where, and occasionally removed when the infrastructure is gone. Each of those needs the affected land surveyed and the easement precisely defined, then agreed with the relevant authority before it can be registered.

We work directly with engineers, councils, service authorities and solicitors so the definition on the plan matches what everyone has agreed to.

Lease Plans

Lease plans define exactly what a tenant is leasing inside a commercial, industrial, retail or government property, including the tenancy boundaries, the common areas and the access rights.

Vague lease areas cause arguments about outgoings, make-good and expansion rights years later. A measured plan with proper area calculations removes the ambiguity for both landlord and tenant.

We survey occupied, operating buildings regularly and work around trading hours where needed.

Boundary Disputes

Disputes usually come down to one of three things: uncertainty about where the title boundary runs, an occupation that has crept over it, or a structure built across it.

Our role is independent. We review the title and historical survey information, investigate on site, analyse the cadastral evidence and give a professional opinion supported by the records. In many cases that evidence alone is enough for the parties to reach agreement without going further.

Where it does go further, we prepare expert reports suitable for mediation or legal proceedings and can appear as an expert witness.

Feature & Level Surveys

A feature survey records the existing site: buildings, fences, trees, driveways, retaining walls, pits, visible services, drainage and surface levels, plus the relevant adjoining property information.

Architects, engineers and designers work from it. Getting it right at the start is what stops design changes, unexpected constraints and expensive surprises once construction begins.

We deliver in DWG and PDF, in the format your consultant team actually uses.

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