Plan of subdivision (PS)

A plan of subdivision (PS) is the Victorian survey plan that, once registered, divides a parcel of land into new lots and creates a separate title for each. It is prepared by a licensed land surveyor after a planning permit for the subdivision has issued, and it is governed by the Subdivision Act 1988.

Getting from permit to titles runs through a set sequence:

• The surveyor prepares the PS and lodges it with council for certification, with referral to the servicing authorities (water, sewer, power) where required.
• Once the permit conditions are satisfied (works completed or bonded, any open-space contribution paid), council issues a Statement of Compliance.
• The certified PS plus the Statement of Compliance is lodged at Land Use Victoria, the state land registry, which registers the plan and issues the new titles.

Until the PS is registered the new lots do not legally exist, so you can sell only off the plan, not on a separate title. The PS also records easements, reserves, owners corporation boundaries, and common property, so it is the document that fixes exactly what each new lot includes.

The plan of subdivision is the Victorian counterpart to the New South Wales Deposited Plan (DP). In Victoria the same PS instrument also handles a building (strata-style) subdivision, so there is no separate strata plan as there is in NSW. For how to actually read one of these plans across the states see how to read a plan of subdivision; for the area and frontage rules that decide whether a subdivision stacks up see residential subdivision controls.

Also known as: PS, subdivision plan.

Category: Planning / Subdivision.

Related

• How to read a plan of subdivision
• Residential subdivision controls

See also

• Deposited Plan (DP)
• Section 32 statement (Vic)

References

• Subdivision Act 1988 (Vic) (verified 2026-06-01)
• Land Use Victoria: subdivisions and consolidations (verified 2026-06-01)

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Last updated: 2026-06-01. Verified: 2026-06-01. Quarterly review for currency.