Wow you would think the town planner would support double garage... Less cars parking on the street for neighbours. Over time as area has redeveloped people have more cars, especially when kids stay at home longer!
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Following... Good luck dealing with the planners, ghastly folk.
You Could think about staggering the line of the two garages and try to recess a little further behind the front wall. A little tinkering, appropriate use of colours/materials and photos of similar outcomes in your area should see you on the right track. If you included a clause 55 assessment in your application it might be worth pointing out how Councils suggestion would result in several non-compliances.
well done Thunder.
may i ask if finding your development site difficult? i live in Sydney and to find a profitable site is very difficult as the site is already expensive and require alot of existing capital to start.
Wow you would think the town planner would support double garage... Less cars parking on the street for neighbours. Over time as area has redeveloped people have more cars, especially when kids stay at home longer!
yep bizarre really, most families have more than one car. You'd think I was asking for a landing strip for the Jetsons
In our search we got to a point of info overload and stopped, pared things back and set some simple rules about what was acceptable and wasn't. After that we kept asking questions and searching until we found something we could work within our risk parameters. Its different for everyone, you just got to not give up until you're comfortable with the choices before you.
Looks great! following with interest!
Very curious to hear location though..
well done!!!
with the re-submission to council and the change of plans.
was there any elements within the costing that was blown? for example, the planned finished date has moved? resulting in extra holding interest costs?
Great thread! I will be following with interest!
I love the idea of paring things back and focusing on key rules. Would anyone care to share what their key rules for selecting development sites are?
Hi all,
Apologies for the delay in posting. It's taken a little time to get through council but we have officially received a planning permit Now I can breath again...
After the first shake of head from council (computer says noooo), I sat with my builder and drafty and we revised our plans with 2 options. Councils main concern was the visual presence on 2 double garages on the streetscape and a straight vertical wall facing the secondary street.
We flipped the floor plan of the corner townhouse so the garages are now separated and have a visual divide with landscaping. We also made our external colour selections and chose the garage door and surrounding render the same colour to minimise the appearance. Along with some articulation of the garage wall and addition of a front fence, I'll admit it looks much more appealing
On the secondary street we altered the 1st floor set back and again with flipping, landscaping and fencing have 3 layers of articulation.
I also decided to spend $$ on having some renderings done (see attached) of the design and then met with the TP so she could see we weren't cowbows from out of town and we'd given some serious thought to the streetscape. It worked brilliantly as the next day we were at advertising stage.
I then knocked on the door of our neighbours for a chat to head off any objections. Not one! So happy.
My builder and drafty have been brilliant and they're working hard to keep moving forward. Demo has been completed and check the pics, no wonder the neighbours were happy to see it go!
Next steps:
We're aiming to complete construction plans, internal selections, soil, energy ratings, engineering, contracts etc in 6 weeks and the builder is targeting end Sept completion. I suspect later by the time we get through subdivision, contract legals, finance yadda yadda but hey, I'm happy to be wrong.
On the end budget front, with all the alterations I still think an end value of $600k each is achievable, but realistically its best case, $575k mid point and $550k worst. With that in mind, I'm working on some wow factor design touch's for the internals, but nothing to break the budget. Our demo costs (amazingly) came to $9k, I had budgeted $10k but was thinking asbestos surprises but no! Also our drafty costs so far are under budget and the builder has not charged me squat for all his awesome efforts (so far:rolleyes.
Question for you all. I'm thinking I should have a quant surveyor look over the contract estimates to keep us honest, yes? Anything else I need to get onto?
The only thing I would say is that in my opinion you've got next to no chance of being complete by end of Sept
Some advise, make sure you or your builder has applied for a PIC Number from your water authority or else you're going to get a shock soon when you complete the next stage and think you can start
I agree. I'll be happy if we finish before Christmas!
I spoke to my builder and I was at least happy that he's onto it. His approach is to have the sewer and stormwater excavation and connection done before the building permit submission so they will have the PIC number. Thanks for the advice on that one LT, I learnt something
Good luck with your build