All I want to do is be able to knock my house down to build a nice new one. Simple, clean cut, quick and easy...... one would think!
I lodged my DA for demolition in early December. As part of this process I requested trees to be removed as the demo guys are going to be doing this for us..... well what a mistake that was....
Because of this we have now been in council for 45 days and nothing!! Apparently they have been going back and forth about the trees for weeks now and as no house plans have been attached with the DA (they weren't ready at that stage) they won't approve the trees. Which is fine - this I understand BUT.... why couldn't they tell me that when I lodged the DA!!! I would have removed them off the application and it would have been approved in 3 weeks.
Seriously I can't stand my council.
Ok rant over. Apologies to anyone who sat through to read this.