Our deposit has been paid! After waiting ages for the bank to get their stuff together (and telling one lender we'd changed our minds and didnt want to buy land anymore, then going to another one for help because #1 was useless!) I feel safe that its ours now, that took way too long to organise lol.
We were in the area on Monday too so drove past, and we have gutters with gravel roads! Next time we go past there should be real roads (the block is about 40min away from where we live now so can't just do a casual driveby every day to check progress lol).