Browse Forums Building A New House Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 281Mar 19, 2017 12:47 pm Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 283Mar 19, 2017 3:08 pm Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 289Apr 01, 2017 6:49 pm Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 291Apr 01, 2017 7:19 pm Yeah it would have just been good if I didn't waste 3 days moving the car each day for them to not turn up, leaving a big hole in the driveway, then agreeing on how they wanted to do it, then finally not even doing it how they said they wanted it done.. Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 292Apr 02, 2017 9:42 am OMG, council dramas! I might ask them if we can pay for our concrete to go right across to the invert - see what they say -I want the invert widened anyway, so we gotta pay for that. Building, huh? Neverending sto-ory! Ahahah- ahahah-ahahah! Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 293Apr 02, 2017 12:18 pm I spent 6 months fighting to get our invert widened, and they wont do it in Seaford Meadows. This was even after I had it confirmed to us that we could widen it before we purchased the block. The best I could get was allowing us to move ours over a bit, but even that was a struggle. And yes, all of this is despite others on the same street having wider driveways, and the display homes and stuff too. And I had all of this documented in a journal including emails. I would have had to take them to court or something if we wanted to go any further.... They apparently have a 'directive' and I was speaking to CEO level people and town planners and everything. They will blame the developer and the developer will blame council. And when it finally came down to it, they don't have a process to allow it, and they don't want to spoil their precious 'award winning development' Apparently something changed that people were being allowed to do it, and now they aren't. and sometime 'early this year' an inspector is going to come down all the streets and tell these people who have done it that they need to rip up their driveways and conform with the '4m maximum invert' despite being allowed to have up to 6 or 7 metres anywhere else in Onkaparinga council area. They wont let you concrete to the invert either. Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 294Apr 02, 2017 2:41 pm MJT I spent 6 months fighting to get our invert widened, and they wont do it in Seaford Meadows. This was even after I had it confirmed to us that we could widen it before we purchased the block. The best I could get was allowing us to move ours over a bit, but even that was a struggle. And yes, all of this is despite others on the same street having wider driveways, and the display homes and stuff too. And I had all of this documented in a journal including emails. I would have had to take them to court or something if we wanted to go any further.... They apparently have a 'directive' and I was speaking to CEO level people and town planners and everything. They will blame the developer and the developer will blame council. And when it finally came down to it, they don't have a process to allow it, and they don't want to spoil their precious 'award winning development' Apparently something changed that people were being allowed to do it, and now they aren't. and sometime 'early this year' an inspector is going to come down all the streets and tell these people who have done it that they need to rip up their driveways and conform with the '4m maximum invert' despite being allowed to have up to 6 or 7 metres anywhere else in Onkaparinga council area. They wont let you concrete to the invert either. Wow that sounds extreme, I understand that they want it to all conform and look pretty at the end but that's to the extreme!! Rip up driveways?! Are they gonna reimburse the $1000,s it costs to put the driveway there? Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 295Apr 02, 2017 3:19 pm But the paving the council does looks like $$@#% !!! And the tree roots distort it too easily. It's only more money for them to maintain it in the long run - forward planning is such an oxy-moron in this state. What award winning developement? Looks like the same old bog-standard developement that there is everywhere else! Idiotic... They want it to look like a classic Adelaide suburb according to their own literature, and then do everything to prevent it. Ends up being 'boxes on the hillside, and they're all made out of tick-tacky' (showing my age again!) And if they're going on about everyone being the same, why have different sections got different trees/streetlamps/footpaths etc? Bunch of bananas they are... Oh well, I'll ask the questions... sounds well retarded to me, but that seems to be the thing in SA councils. Be backward and stay backward at all costs! I think the encumbrances are null and void after a certain amount of years though, aren't they? We'll just rip up their garbage and do it all over again when the time comes, if they won't let us do it properly now.Now I gotta decide if I want to have a fight, or if it's just too infra dig. What I always say - there's no cure for stupid. Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 296Apr 02, 2017 5:11 pm Yeah it is all nonsense isn't it.... This wasn't an encumbrance thing though either, this was straight council problems Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 297Apr 12, 2017 9:59 pm Your steel frame is looking very impressive, we detour past your place to see your progress Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 298Apr 14, 2017 10:20 pm I just wrote a long and detailed reply to everyone - homeone is glitchy again, and I lost it - sorry, I don't have the energy to re-post! I'm still sick, and had a CT scan on my chest yesterday... that was thrilling beyond belief! (Sarcasm detectors set to stun, please!) Frame is great, hate the window frame and gutter colour, Dune. Tell you all why when I have some energy! Hope everyone is going along ok! Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 299Apr 15, 2017 8:24 pm Hope you feel better soon. House is very impressive. Re: New Building Seaford Meadows SA 300Apr 17, 2017 8:13 am Hope your feeling better soon GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=83643 For reference, this is the Austlii reference. My take on this is, that they would be breaking the law denying access to a homeowner in Victoria, or their agent from having… 1 9612 Is it just a report written to give to the bank initially and it is based on what and how your payments are made up for, or is it a full service where they go out and… 2 5961 Hi Suku18 In NSW the statutory required insurances are: 1. HBCF ( Home Building Compensation Fund) - This is if the builder dies or goes broke. But this only covers 20%… 1 2925 |