Blacktown Council Pilots DAISY For Planning

Blacktown City Council in Sydney is piloting DAISY, a generative AI planning assistant launched in January to help residents submit development applications. The tool answers about 450 questions weekly and has supported commencement of over 60 applications, drawing on LEPs, DCPs and SEPPs; funding was a $190,000 NSW planning grant and DAISY is hosted on Microsoft Azure without training third-party models.