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About Lotscape

Subdivision concepts on real New Zealand ground.

Lotscape shows what a block of land could become: layout options, an A3 concept plan set, renders and a 3D world you can walk, all drawn on the site’s real ground from public data. Developed by Oliver Rose.

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A render of a new home from the street in the Irvines Track exemplar
Irvines Track, Halswell: a hypothetical exemplar, a home from the street. Cycles render, concept.

How it worksOne layout, drawn once, behind every view.

  1. The real groundWe start from public data for the site: LINZ LiDAR for the shape of the land, LINZ aerial photos, the title boundary, and the buildings, streets and council networks round it.
  2. Layout optionsThe layout engine draws roads, lots, house pads, driveways, earthworks, retaining walls and services, and checks every option against the district plan’s rules for the zone, such as minimum lot size and setbacks.
  3. The plan setA3 concept sheets from the same layout: the layout, a lot schedule, concept services, street furniture and earthworks.
  4. RendersCycles renders of the same layout, from the air and at street level, and stage by stage: the ground as it is, civil works, then homes.
  5. The 3D worldIn the browser, on a phone or a computer: look round, switch options, walk the streets, take the 360° tour, watch the film, or stand the design on the site in AR.
Irvines Track from the air: as captured
As captured
Irvines Track from the air: civil works
Civil works
Irvines Track from the air: every lot built
Every lot built
The same paddocks three ways, from one layout: Irvines Track, option 2. Cycles renders, concept; the ground from LINZ LiDAR and the March 2025 aerial.

Who it’s for

  • Developers

    Send the project, where it’s up to and the plans you have, as a formal request to be considered. Layout options, a concept plan set or every view, for weighing up a block.

  • Landowners

    Weighing up what your land could do: how it might subdivide, and what the rules and the ground allow.

  • People building a home

    Placing a house on a section: where it sits on the ground and how it looks, before anything is built.

The exemplarsWhat a client receives. Open one and use every view.

Omau, Cape Foulwind is an unpaid concept example: their subdivision options and their new home, with every lot tested for a house platform, a wastewater field and reserve, tanks and fire water.

The three Christchurch sites are real blocks of land on real LINZ terrain and aerials, with layouts that are ours: hypothetical, not any developer’s scheme.

Where the data comes from

The ground
LINZ LiDAR elevation models, 1 m: Christchurch 2024–25, and the West Coast for Omau. CC BY 4.0.
Aerial photos
LINZ: the Christchurch 7.5 cm urban aerials of March 2025, and the Buller and West Coast aerials for Omau. CC BY 4.0.
Boundaries
LINZ property parcels. CC BY 4.0.
Buildings and streets
OpenStreetMap contributors. ODbL.
Council networks
Christchurch City Council open data, round the Christchurch sites. CC BY 4.0. As recorded, so indicative.
Coordinates
NZTM2000 (EPSG:2193), with heights in NZVD2016.

Everything Lotscape makes is concept only: not a survey, a consent application or engineering design. What that means.

Who makes it

Lotscape is developed by Oliver Rose. Write to us at oliver@lotscape.co.nz.

Send us your section.

Tell us about the land and what you have in mind, and we’ll delve into it. We confirm your price before any work starts.

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