Surveyors who have been using New Zealand’s legacy Landonline service have been reminded that the final switchover to the new Landonline system will soon take place.
According to Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), surveyors have been using the New Landonline exclusively to complete their capture work since November 2022, and Sign and Submit since October 2024.
LINZ says that plan generation has recently been released to Pilot Users and is scheduled to become available for all surveyors by late March.
Once a surveyor has set up access to the New Landonline’s plan generation application, they can use it to draft new plans or continue drafting plans already begun in legacy Landonline.
Legacy Landonline will be gradually switched off for different groups over the next couple of months:
- Search only firms: 19 February 2025
- Territorial Authorities and councils: 25 February 2025
- Dealings firms (legal and conveyancing): between 3 to 12 March 2025
- Survey firms: from late April 2025.
LINZ recently surveyed users of the new Landonline service and found that:
- 91% of respondents are just as, or more, productive using new Landonline compared to the legacy system;
- 14% of respondents reported “a large increase in productivity” when completing tasks in New Landonline, compared to the legacy system.
