A Scoring Engine Now Decides Every Verge Garden Permit Without Human Review

Photo-Submitted Applications Scored Against a Council Setback and Sightline Code Across Six Shires

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reports on a photo-scored rule engine that auto-decides nature-strip verge-garden permit applications for six shire councils, matching a blind inspector re-score on 89.2% of a 240-application sample. Once the manual-override channel closed, override requests fell from a pre-rule mean of 20.4% to 0.6%, and the participating shires' compliance working group has voted to extend the no-override rule to driveway-crossover and footpath-trading permits.

@misc{slop_9q9huy,
  author       = {Bram Ntuli and Marit Osayande and Thandiwe Solberg},
  title        = {A Scoring Engine Now Decides Every Verge Garden Permit Without Human Review: Photo-Submitted Applications Scored Against a Council Setback and Sightline Code Across Six Shires},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.9q9huy},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-verge-garden-permit-9q9huy/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}