Built for Granny Flat Installers
Granny flats are small projects with complex compliance. Setbacks from primary structures, maximum coverage rules, minimum lot size requirements, and council-specific overlays all shape what can be built and where. uDrew surfaces those requirements instantly, so your team can confirm viability, design compliantly, and move customers to approval with confidence.
Three Tools. One Workflow.
uDrew gives granny flat installers the ability to assess site feasibility, design compliant layouts, and present verified options to clients, all from one connected platform.
Enter the property address and uDrew OnSite immediately checks the planning controls relevant to secondary dwelling construction: lot size thresholds, setbacks, coverage allowances, height limits, overlays, site engineering, and council-specific conditions. What used to require a manual trawl through council documents or a paid planning report now takes seconds. No waiting. No paid consultants. No surprises. Your team confirms viability before any design investment is made, and customers get clear answers the same day they ask.
uDrew Studio turns feasibility intelligence into a compliant granny flat layout. Design the dwelling, adjust size and positioning, and get live feedback on whether every change stays within the relevant planning rules. When the layout is finalised, the council-ready documentation is already prepared, with no separate compliance review, no additional formatting, and no extra steps.
Granny flat customers do their research long before they make contact. uDrew Connect captures that research and turns it into qualified leads. Connect Live lets customers place a design on their own property from home, turning quiet interest into genuine intent before your team picks up the phone. Connect Display drives engagement at expos and showrooms. Connect Intelligence shows you which designs, suburbs, and customer profiles are converting best. By the time a lead reaches your sales team, they’ve already sold themselves.
Hear It From the Trades
The builders and retailers who use uDrew aren’t just working more efficiently, they’re winning projects they would otherwise have lost. uDrew puts the kind of planning intelligence that was previously only available to large developers with dedicated resources into the hands of every builder, installer, and retailer who wants to run a sharper, faster, more professional business.
Results that deliver
Granny flat installers who use uDrew don’t just confirm viability faster, they give customers clear, confident answers from the very first conversation in a way that most competitors can’t.
Compliance is validated throughout the design process rather than reviewed at lodgement. Granny flat installers using uDrew report significantly fewer resubmissions, with council-ready documentation prepared automatically when the design is finalised.
uDrew users report saving 2 to 4 hours per project on feasibility research and desktop study time. Setbacks, overlays, site conditions, and council requirements are all surfaced instantly, so quotes can be sent while the customer is still in the conversation.
What previously required a manual trawl through council documents or a paid planning report now takes seconds. Enter an address and uDrew OnSite immediately confirms whether the lot can support a secondary dwelling and what conditions apply.
Secondary dwelling rules vary significantly between local government areas. uDrew applies the right ones automatically, so your team works with the same confidence and consistency regardless of where the project is located.
FAQs
Everything you need to know about site planning, compliance, and how uDrew fits into a Granny Flt or Modular Home business.
Yes. Every design built in uDrew Studio is validated against current planning rules as you work, and Studio includes all the design tools you need to produce professional, scaled plans without drafting experience. When the layout is finalised, the documentation exports correctly formatted for councils and certifiers, with no professional redrawing required.
Yes. uDrew OnSite automatically reports the constraints most likely to affect secondary dwelling installation: boundary setbacks, setbacks from primary structures, easements, zoning overlays, lot size thresholds, and coverage rules, using live data for the specific property. Those constraints carry directly into uDrew Studio, so as you adjust the granny flat layout, you're alerted the moment the design intersects with something that matters.
By confirming site constraints and compliance information upfront, uDrew catches the issues that normally trigger resubmissions before the design even begins. For granny flat installers, that's the difference between installations starting this quarter and waiting until next. Plans submitted to council are accurate the first time, which means fewer revisions, fewer follow-up questions, and installations that stay on schedule.
Most planning tools handle one part of the workflow. uDrew connects site feasibility, compliant design, and customer-facing presentation in a single platform. But that's only part of the story. uDrew instantly calculates the site engineering and design criteria that normally take days and thousands of dollars to commission, geotechnical conditions, site classifications, wind ratings, corrosion categories, AHD ground levels, and utility depths. No waiting on engineers. No assumptions about ground conditions. No quotes that blow out when installation day arrives. Everything you need to confirm, design, and quote, the moment you enter an address.
Granny flat customers spend weeks researching before they make contact. uDrew Connect captures that early interest and converts it into sales-ready leads. Connect Live lets customers place a granny flat design on their own property from home, giving them the confidence to enquire. Connect Display turns expo stands and showroom demos into closing conversations. By the time your sales team picks up the phone, the customer has already done most of the convincing.
See uDrew on a Granny Flat
Book a demo and we’ll walk you through a live site assessment, compliant secondary dwelling layout, and client-ready presentation, on a property of your choosing.