Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Urgent help - Major changes by council -what are my opti 5Feb 07, 2011 1:00 pm I can understand how disappointed you feel. Most councils advise a pre-lodgement meeting should take place to go over plans to pick up problems like this. I guess most project-home builders don't feel they need to. It would save so much time and effort. I hope you only have to tweak you plans slightly so you can easily resubmit. Who is you council/builder? Re: Urgent help - Major changes by council -what are my opti 6Feb 07, 2011 2:21 pm Just been through this with our builder. Had a chaim of evidemce from them demanding copies of the O&A on the block, the DAP and the covenants and yet they still made a basic stuffup on the solar setback. Just told them they made the mistake so they can redo the drawings at their cost. Re: Urgent help - Major changes by council -what are my opti 7Apr 06, 2011 8:56 am Just wanted to report back on this and say that the problem was effectively solved by my builder. They were very proactive in going back to council and dealing with the issues they raised. In my case it meant demonstrating that the 'spirit' of the rules were being met by the design even though the letter of the law was not necessarily met....all good I engaged my builder in December last year and we’ve been working on preliminary drawings for last couple of months. I got a call from the salesperson this morning… 0 630 Thank you @. Tried to play with the facade models but the exact colour is not matching up. 2 3382 Hi there, I'm a conplete newbie to this, but I'm looking to put a floor down in my 6x9m shed. It's currently sitting on a 100mm thick concrete perimeter (dirt floor… 0 6584 |