I will be building in stage 13 not sure when they will title the LAND.
Recently got a letter from VicUrban saying that VicUrban would secure titles in Dec 2009 for stage 13 and registration more likely to occur in Jan 2010.
Cheers.
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 141Dec 03, 2009 10:42 am khubvalo123 Is anyone know whether stage 12 is been released or not? I will be building in stage 13 not sure when they will title the LAND. Recently got a letter from VicUrban saying that VicUrban would secure titles in Dec 2009 for stage 13 and registration more likely to occur in Jan 2010. Cheers. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 142Dec 03, 2009 5:59 pm Thanks everyone for their input Landscaping costs are doing my head in because i have a "look" i'm after but i think its so going to blow our budget I just read in my contract that the incentive is only "value of $2500". Have they reduced it!? And it also says "The purchaser must choose 1 landscape design option from those illustrated in the Aurora Front Garden Design Guide - Stages 12- 17. VicUrban will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that landscaping works will be undertaken within 3 months...." So it seems like VicUrban does them now? Question - With our backyards, do we submit our landscaping designs to VicUrban prior to doing it up? Because i was thinking about easements the other day, my home is approx 29cm off the rear easement! So might have angle of repose issues. Yet to see final drawings but i think it can be a problem = more $$ Also what has everyone done to their easements? Do we have to ask Whittlesea council? I was thinking of mulching and paving it. khubvalo123 & 3cpo - i also got a letter syaing what 3cpo said. So probably Jan 2010 Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 144Dec 04, 2009 11:54 am I am getting mine via IMPACT CURTAINS AND BLINDS http://www.impactblindsandcurtains.com.au/ This is who my builder uses, but I don't get them in the wet areas, so I have arranged for them to do the rest of mine also. Not sure if they are any good yet though. Current build Porter Davis Brookwater 49, Eucalypt Wollert Build: 24th Jul 2015 - Approx Mar 2016 Previous build DFH Columbia 21, Lyndarum Epping North Build:20th Jul 2009 - 18th Dec 2009 Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 145Dec 04, 2009 12:33 pm OZEP Hi am looking for Blinds and curtains. if you guys know any good person can you tell me Thanks If you are interested in DIY http://www.cheapa-blinds.com.au/default.aspx http://iseekblinds.com.au/index.asp Cheers. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 146Dec 04, 2009 6:48 pm Quote: I just read in my contract that the incentive is only "value of $2500". Have they reduced it!? And it also says "The purchaser must choose 1 landscape design option from those illustrated in the Aurora Front Garden Design Guide - Stages 12- 17. VicUrban will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that landscaping works will be undertaken within 3 months...." So it seems like VicUrban does them now? Question - With our backyards, do we submit our landscaping designs to VicUrban prior to doing it up? Because i was thinking about easements the other day, my home is approx 29cm off the rear easement! So might have angle of repose issues. Yet to see final drawings but i think it can be a problem = more $$ Also what has everyone done to their easements? Do we have to ask Whittlesea council? I was thinking of mulching and paving it. It seems they've changed the rules in regards to the front garden. We had 28 days to complete our front garden, but we got $5,000. My husband almost killed himself doing it all alone in that timeframe. As far as I am aware, your backyard is up to you. You can do whatever you like in your back garden...but I don't know much about easements, sorry. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 147Dec 05, 2009 8:39 am 3cpo OZEP Hi am looking for Blinds and curtains. if you guys know any good person can you tell me Thanks If you are interested in DIY http://www.cheapa-blinds.com.au/default.aspx http://iseekblinds.com.au/index.asp Cheers. Thanks Guys Hi I am planning to do house inspection through 3rd party. is that worth of doing. I did for slab stage. now am thinking for all stage it will be great if some one give some suggestion Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 148Dec 07, 2009 8:45 pm hi everyone this is my first post on here. We are building in stage 14 Aurora and we are looking for some help on builders. We have built through zuccala homes before and never had any problems previously so we automatically went straight back to them this time around to build again we are looking at the galleria. We are finding that their customer service level has dropped dramatically since our last build with them. After reading yesterdays Sun article on there horror homes in the highlands estate we are now having second thoughts. We are wanting to hear from anyone who has built through them recently in aurora. Was there any additional add on costs after contract was signed? what was the quality like? did they stick to build time? any problems along the way? We have also now considered burbank homes (we have to yet to sign contract with zuccala so looking around) they have a comparable house we like that is about $20,000 cheaper then zuccalas galleria. Has anyone started building or finished building with burbank, again any hidden costs that might pop up? any problems? both builders are saying its fixed contract but yet on the zuccala one it does state that due to not being able to test the land yet ( not been released) its not fixed cost for site test. i dont want to get a extra bill for extra rock thats why i wanted fixed price this confuses me. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 149Dec 08, 2009 7:29 am where have all the Lyndarum people gone? Current build Porter Davis Brookwater 49, Eucalypt Wollert Build: 24th Jul 2015 - Approx Mar 2016 Previous build DFH Columbia 21, Lyndarum Epping North Build:20th Jul 2009 - 18th Dec 2009 Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 150Dec 12, 2009 9:40 pm oztish We did our front garden ourselves - everyone who walks past asks us which landscaper we used. All up, for everything (including turf to backyard) cost just under $5,000 so our $5,000 VicUrban rebate covered our garden entirely. Pretty happy with that! Just remember, if you want the $5,000 rebate you HAVE to meet VicUrban's front garden landscape installation requirements - although mind you the people who inspect your garden are from the council and I got the impression the council people had no idea about these requirements. They didn't even know there was a specified plants listing! Oh, and don't spend thousands on getting a garden designer to design your yard. We did it ourselves on A4 paper with coloured pencils and got it approved by VicUrban, so all that expense is a waste of money. Hi Oztish Which street are you in and which stage? I didn't know you could do your own landscaping and get a rebate from VicUrban. $5000 sounds good!!! Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 151Dec 14, 2009 12:08 am Hi Nic - Zuccala is our builder but we haven't started construction yet, so I can't help you much. Hi Tech - Yeah I read the Herald Sun article also and it is worrying. I'm not at construction stage yet but soon will be, so hopefully there won't be any dramas during and after the construction period. My experience so far is that the sale consultant is great and very helpful, their admin is slow and you have to chase them for updates, however credit to our contract admin officer for emailing back to us even if sometimes the answer is vague, at least they reply to our messages and not ignore them. I can't give you any feedback how they are with the construction stage. I'm glad there are a couple of people who are building/built or thinking of building with Zuccala in Aurora on this forum. Hopefully we can help each other out. If you have any questions please don't hesistate to ask. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 152Dec 14, 2009 9:06 am wondering oztish We did our front garden ourselves - everyone who walks past asks us which landscaper we used. All up, for everything (including turf to backyard) cost just under $5,000 so our $5,000 VicUrban rebate covered our garden entirely. Pretty happy with that! Just remember, if you want the $5,000 rebate you HAVE to meet VicUrban's front garden landscape installation requirements - although mind you the people who inspect your garden are from the council and I got the impression the council people had no idea about these requirements. They didn't even know there was a specified plants listing! Oh, and don't spend thousands on getting a garden designer to design your yard. We did it ourselves on A4 paper with coloured pencils and got it approved by VicUrban, so all that expense is a waste of money. Hi Oztish Which street are you in and which stage? I didn't know you could do your own landscaping and get a rebate from VicUrban. $5000 sounds good!!! I am from Stage 13, recently queried this from VicUrban and they said that they were going to do the landscaping within 3 months once the Certificate of Occupancy received. Cheers. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 153Dec 14, 2009 7:31 pm We are building in stage 12, just had soil testing conducted last week. Just looking for feed back about the timeframe as to when people have had any building done from that point. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 154Dec 14, 2009 8:45 pm Hi everyone, I have just placed my deposit on my own little pocket of land in Stage 15 (near Edgars Road) in the Aurora estate. Thought I would google around a bit to see what other people (mostly my future neighbours perhaps!) are saying. All in all I'm pretty happy with my lot, it's located in an awesome place (hey, my opinion's biased) and it's a nice north-south oriented block which is what I wanted. My fiance and I are looking around for builders -- most probably go with Burb@nk (is there a censor filter on these boards? I noticed other posts substituting punctuation marks for some letters in builders' names) and the Ascent 2500 is what appeals to us the most. It seems the contract with VicUrban in my mind is pretty clear with what you can and can't do. I'm much, much more wary with the contracts that I'll probably be signing with Burb@nk. Things like termite protection and rock removal are things I didn't think about up until now, and thanks for those who came across these issues to broadcast them here for others such as myself who are still umming and ahhing about signing up with a particular builder. One thing that was highlighted to me many times when talking to VicUrban and Burb@nk was "fixed site costs". Does this really protect me from the rock removal? How fixed are fixed site costs? Is it a misnomer, like a few of the other things that I noticed, especially with Burb@nk's advertising? Someone mentioned earlier that the number of builders have decreased. I hadn't even stepped foot into Aurora until 3 weeks ago, so I don't know how it was before but it most definitely is now only 4 builders as of this moment: Burb@nk, Zucc@la, JGK and T!meless (the last two don't even seem to have reps at their display homes, so I haven't / couldn't speak to any of them). Titles should be ready around July 2010 for Stage 15, but the reps at VicUrban did mention to me that earlier stages did get delays, to the point where it even threatened FHOG for those who bought in, and VicUrban had to contact the state revenue office to get extensions. I won't mention how much I paid for my lot, but it was more expensive than the prices mentioned earlier in this thread -- having said that, the price for my lot is about $20k cheaper than plots of similar size in other estates such as Hawkesbury in South Morang (yech) or Mernda Village (yuck!). Plus you get your FTTH, recycled water, requirement of 5-star energy rating, etc. @BZaurora, as far as I know your backyard is your backyard and you can do whatever you want with it. Which makes sense since the only people that would be looking at it would be you and your family The fiance is loving the brochure of the landscaping, has already picked out the one she wants and our land hasn't even been cleared yet, let alone titled and building to commence. I gathered that the set regulated landscaping is for when the council inspects the yard -- basically 6 months from now you could rip it all out and do it the way you want to if you like. You're not stuck to a set plan for 20 years. @oztish, thanks very much for the picture of your networking equipment and housing. Being an IT professional, I naturally jumped at this pic and tried to get a good look at what was in there. Is the cabinet wooden or metal? $1200 is pretty steep for a cabinet, my dad is a welder so I'm sure he could knock me up something nice and custom I am glad to see that there is a router / firewall between the network patch panel (where the cables are coming out of the wall) and the modem (what I'm assuming is that big white thing in the middle) -- I was a little concerned that perhaps I couldn't have control of what firewall I could use -- sorry it's the geek in me and I didn't want something substandard. I had a chat to Amy at Arise for a rate card, which she provided to me. The prices don't seem that steep considering what you're getting. You have to realise that it's not like ADSL where your download speed is usually 4 times quicker than your upload speed (or more realistically, your upload speed is 4 times slower than your download speed a 2Mbit download/upload link with 20GB is alright for its price (as of writing this, ~$70) but not particularly bang-for-buck. I found the line rental cost a bit steep too, and I'm not interested in pay tv. Arise mentioned to me that they weren't sure if my lot would even be serviced by Arise, but a chat to VicUrban assured me that all lots sold in Aurora will be serviced with Arise, even if Arise don't know about it yet I'd hate to think what I would do if I didn't have Arise or Telstra! Another curious thing I found was that some of the display homes near the land office had small telstra boxes on their side walls. I thought Telstra didn't even want to touch the estate? Quite odd. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 155Dec 15, 2009 11:26 am anyone been able to get Optus in these areas? I can't for my new address which is stage 24 of Lyndarum. They told me only Telsra can do the telephone and internet there atm. Current build Porter Davis Brookwater 49, Eucalypt Wollert Build: 24th Jul 2015 - Approx Mar 2016 Previous build DFH Columbia 21, Lyndarum Epping North Build:20th Jul 2009 - 18th Dec 2009 Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 156Dec 16, 2009 10:22 am Hi kes1984, I'm also in Lyndarum stage 24, Kirkwood Av. I'm not sure about Optus telephone line. Most likely will be just Telstra. You can get Internet with anyone so don't believe what Telstra tells you . I have it with TPG which is much cheaper than Telstra. The only problem is that ADSL2+ is not available in our area because Telstra has installed pair gain lines (copper lines shared between users). You can only get standard ADSL which is slower and more expensive than ADSL2+ Cheers Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 157Dec 16, 2009 6:25 pm oh cool!! I know your street! I'm Langridge Drive. Optus who I am currently with are the ones told me only Telstra so I know they don't service this area yet. I am gonna just go with Telstra for the first 2 years (on a contract) and then I will re-assess. I am over Optus anyway. Have a few problems with them. Especially with our home phone. How's your build going BTW? I imagine all of stage 24 settled at the same time? Mine was 9th June but my build didn't start until July 20th and handover is on the 18th December! Yippee!! Current build Porter Davis Brookwater 49, Eucalypt Wollert Build: 24th Jul 2015 - Approx Mar 2016 Previous build DFH Columbia 21, Lyndarum Epping North Build:20th Jul 2009 - 18th Dec 2009 Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 158Dec 16, 2009 8:47 pm Hi acherion Welcome to the forum and congratulations on securing your land. I guess with land prices its always going to be cheaper when you pruchase at the very begining of a dvelopment as there are basically zero amenities. But once houses start popping up and development is underway, prices will head north. Burbank has got some nice designs and i would have probably gone with them if they had displays of larger 4 bedroom single storey homes at Aurora. The only ones were Zuccalla and Simonds but Simonds have left Aurora now and Metricon will be in next year. Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 159Dec 16, 2009 9:17 pm Thanks for the warm welcome BZaurora BZaurora but Simonds have left Aurora now and ***** will be in next year. I've noticed that some people's responses are all starred out like the one you wrote above. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but it really throws the context out of whack as I don't know who will be replacing Simonds for example. Is there censorship or a "bad word" list on these forums? Re: LYNDARUM / AURORA ESTATES: Epping, Victoria 160Dec 17, 2009 9:01 pm hi, just had notification that building won't start until sometime next year as there is a back log of jobs. We have been told to apply for an extension for the first home buyers grant as the land release was 2 months late. Has anyone had to do this? Also, we were told that plans had to be drawn up and building permits had to be applied for. Can anyone shed some light as to how long this takes? What does this involve? Thanks The setback from the kerb is 4m. It is council land to provide an area for services like sewer main, gas mains, water mains, underground power or poles for overhead power,… 4 2661 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 10199 Hey everyone Not for me or anyone I know, just generally interested. For a single allotment house, are you allowed to take the fence on both sides of your house and… 0 21581 |