House size vs council regulations

Hi,
We have been looking at various houses for a little while and finally both my husband and I agreed on one we both really liked.

We just got it quoted out and all good until I see the land coverage - which I didn't see until we got home. Our local council website says 50% (city of Kingston - VIC). Our house is coming in at 53%.

Has anyone has to deal with getting a larger house approved by council? Do I have any hope of keeping my current house design?

Thanks in advance.

We got through a house well over 50%, in fact about 60%,
Our Draftsman along with her architect husband got it through by showing other houses in area with each part of house, saying, here is a example of this part of house here, here is this bit here, and finding other houses who had gone over, no matter what size they were.