Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Demo before CDC approval 18Sep 08, 2019 2:03 pm shazaw lozsyd Thanks for the advice! hmm yeah i might have to think about this one. Oh how come you demolished before DA approval? Our builder said if going thru DA we have to wait for approval to come first as they don'w know how long it will take. But as we're going with CDC they said it is upto us and that it usually takes about 4-5 weeks for approval to come through. Oh no that's not good about having to fork out so much for the demo!! Yeah so many hidden costs with building isnt there. I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? We were too naive. In our minds we simply thought that every things will be smooth run. We honestly believed that council will take three months to approved DA, but we run into so much problems with the design of storm water detention also required easement to be registered on neighbouring properties titles. Ps We move out July 2015 and Demo house March 2016. "Our Council took one and half years to approved DA." I should say one and half years to get to the stage of Certificate of Construction ( CC ). lozsyd I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? Yes very happy with this house. All dramas we had with council and during construction with builder were.... simply in the past now. Just try to enjoy the process of building. Build thread : viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624 I just checked out your build thread!! What a journey you have had!!! my gosh!! ur finished product looks good thou! I see you got to build with sekisui before they stopped doing residential!! I had heard good things about them when they were still doing houses. I'm hoping our build will have less dramas then yours! fingers crossed!! Hi Minho I have heaps of experience in Ku-ring-gai with both DAs and CDC ( this is the main area we build in). DA's are taking 12-18months and CDC's we have been doing… 1 3166 1 2992 Hi All, see above image. The required setback from the rear boundary in my case is 5m, as you can see the shape of the site and location of the boundary is slightly… 0 8463 |