What is SouthPAN?
SouthPAN is a significant infrastructure investment and is a key building
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block for New Zealand’s economic future.
It is a satellite-based augmentation system that will improve positioning
and navigation services to as little as 10cm in New Zealand and Australia.
It provides a platform for improved productivity, efficiency and innovation.
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Transport efficency
Increased productivity
Improved safety
Asset management
Driving innovation
Supports aviation –
Streamline operations
Reliable and accurate
Enables businesses to
Improved positioning
domestic air travel safer
and improve efficiency
positioning information
locate assets, vehicles
accuracy drives
and less disrupted by
through accurate data,
helps risk management
and infrastructure with
productivity - accurate
bad weather.
optimised routing,
and prevention in areas
greater precision.
vehicle guidance gives
Supports maritime
navigation and resource
like construction,
Helps forestry and
efficiencies in stock and
industry and unmanned
allocation, reducing
transport, maritime and
construction with more
crop managment and
aerial vehicle (ie drones)
travel time, fuel
aviation, emergency
efficient surveys, maps
to virtual fencing
/ aerospace industry.
consumption and costs.
situations – eg in
and site selection.
helping monitor /
helping aircraft land
control stock.
safely at airports.
Benefits
Finance
• The improved accuracy of positioning information wil support innovation by
A long term partnership approach with Australia.
unlocking new possibilities for innovation and opportunities for entrepreneurs and
New Zealand gives 25% and Australia 75% of funding. New Zealand
tech companies to create value-added solutions.
is committed to the delivery of SouthPAN through contracts for the
ACT
• The quantified economic benefits across multiple sectors are estimated to be at least
life of the project (through to 2042).
$864m over the next 20 years.
Breakdown of funding:
• Benefits will increase as new applications are developed and LINZ is actively engaged
•
operating funding of $781.7m ($297.8m over first 4 years
with central and local agencies and industry to drive user uptake.
and $32.2m for each outyear from 2027-42) and
• Early SouthPAN signals are being delivered now, so benefits can be delivered from
•
early in the project.
capital funding of $10.9m.
Survey & Title Enhancement Programme (STEP) – new Landonline
Benefits
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What has already been
• Flexible, modular technology platform, improved quality and range of
delivered
survey and title services, improved productivity and information flows.
Up to 70% of survey and title
• Delivers innovative enhancements (3D survey plan).
transactions are now able to be
• New products and services are being delivered iteratively. Large parts of
conducted on the new platform.
modernised platform are live and satisfaction with delivered services is
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high.
has far exceeded expectations.
• New Landonline wil be fully live by June 2025. INFORMATION
Al major banks have signed up to
• Finished system wil see a reduction of security risks, better delivery to
the automated mortgage
customer needs and enable financial efficiency savings of over $124m for
transaction notifications and
customers and third parties.
territorial authorities have signed
• In-house capability has been developed to build Landonline and maintain it
up to the Notice of Change of
Ownership services.
in the future, without future one-off investment needed.
What is STEP?
Why do this?
Finance and governance
LINZ is responsible for the government
Confidence in property rights underpins
Over the STEP whole-of-life period to 2030
guarantee of ownership of land.
living standards and is critical to the
capital build is expected to cost $175.7m,
financial and banking system on which
an
ACTd operating expenditure $76.1m.
STEP is a major modernisation of the
Landonline property system. Outdated
the economy relies.
STEP costs are recovered from cost-
technology will be replaced to ensure
This is a future-proofed system that
recovery fees.
Landonline remains world class and delivers a
responds to changing customer needs,
An external governance board provides
modern, secure and efficient system for New
technology trends and changes in law
oversight on delivery challenges, risks and
Zealanders.
and helps people make better property
financial performance.
Landonline is an important part of New
and land decisions.
Zealand’s economic infrastructure.
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