Newsletters

SPEAR News and SPEAR Bulletin are publications which provides updates and progress of SPEAR and associated projects. Publications can be found here and are also automatically published to SPEAR Users.

SPEAR News - July 2023

This newsletter provides details regarding SPEAR Release 5.7, an update on ePlan, as well as SPEAR handy hints. (DOCX 1.8MB)

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SPEAR News - December 2022

This newsletter provides a recap on the LUV Digital Transformation meeting and updates on the 10-year strategy for advancing Victoria's cadastral system, ePlan Pilot, SPEAR Release 5.6 and Digital Cadastre Modernisation as well as handy hints. (DOCX 663KB)

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SPEAR News - April 2022

This newsletter provides updates on the ePlan pilot, information on the upcoming SPEAR release and User Group meeting, handy hints for users, new SPEAR staff arrivals and SPEAR training information. (DOCX 825KB)

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SPEAR News - December 2021

This issue includes updates on the ePlan Portal launch and ePlan Pilot, new SPEAR signing application, handy hints, Digital Cadastre Modernisation program, Geographic Names Victoria activities and 2022 training dates for users. (DOCX 1.0MB)

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SPEAR News - June 2021

This issue of SPEAR News gives information about our upcoming User Group Meeting as well as details of the upcoming SPEAR Release 5.3. There are also updates on the Single CAD Format File and the ePlan Creation Service pilot, as well as updates from the Digital Cadastre Modernisation project and Geographic Name Victoria. (DOCX 1.5MB)

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SPEAR Lodging Party Bulletin - Apr 2021

This issue of the SPEAR Bulletin for SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network (ELN) users covers supplying council consent for creation of easement applications, how to ensure MSA affected applications are assigned to the MSA team within SPEAR for their required actions, issues with users duplicating folio references in easement / restriction related applications, updates to the 'Current registration processing times' page as well as our latest upcoming training dates. (DOCX 767KB)

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SPEAR Lodging Party Bulletin - Jan 2021

The first issue of the SPEAR Bulletin for SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network (ELN) users. This will be a periodic newsletter to provide you with handy hints on how to use the SPEAR ELN effectively and to keep up to date with other resources available to assist you in your work. (DOCX 744KB)

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SPEAR News - December 2020

This issue includes updates on the latest with SPEAR, ePlan, LUV's new website, Geographic Names Victoria's Naming Rules review, an update on the Digital Cadastre Modernisation project and the Melbourne Strategic Assessment program. As usual there are also some handy hints and some upcoming training dates. (DOCX 826KB)

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SPEAR News - June 2020

This issue includes updates on the SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network, a notice regarding lodging fees for the next financial year, the recommencement of rolling out the new SPEAR signing application, as well as some information on modernising SPEAR through the Angular project. It also covers the Melbourne Strategic Assessment Act which comes into effect on 1st July 2020, DCM and ePlan updates, a review of naming rules by Geographic Names Victoria, and our usual handy hints and upcoming training dates. (DOCX 1.2MB)

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