Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 11, 2009 3:00 pm Well my submission to council includes a boundry relaxtion on two sides and building over a sewer line at the back. I know this will more then likely increase the time we have to wait for things to happen at council.
What have peoples wait times been when waiting for Brisbane Council to approve the application? And under what circumstances? Our builder said 14 weeks! How can it take 3.5 months for this? Wow Thanks! Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 2Feb 11, 2009 5:23 pm Yep, it can take forever. Seems to be a rare specialist skill to approve those relaxations that is lacking here in QLD. Must be a tough job. Our relaxation was .5m and it took 3 months. Didn't help that our plans were 'filed on the wrong persons desk' for a week or more.
My advice is to politely give them a couple of weeks, then stay on their back and phone every week after that. Don't leave it to your builder of private certifer to do it. They'll be doing it too, but wont express the same sense of urgency as you would yourself. Ask for a date for when they expect it to be ready and insist on getting the name of that person who gives you the date so you can speak directly to them when that date passes. And continue to phone well before that date to ensure they're still on track to make that deadline. You've got nothing better do with your time right...???!!! Good luck, I really hope your experience will be better than ours. Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 3Feb 11, 2009 5:59 pm Maybe they give you the 14 week line so you won't be disappointed.
We had 1x boundary relax, 1 x build over sewer & 1 x decrease set back. It took 4 weeks. (may 08) We were told 6 weeks, 2 weeks for the sewer & 4 weeks for the rest. Did you know you can check you progress on Brisbane City Council: http://pdonline.brisbane.qld.gov.au/Mas ... fault.aspx This only got posted complete a couple of days before our builder heard - but hey, any notification is good. Louise. Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 4Mar 10, 2009 10:30 pm We just submitted for front setback, zero boundary and oversize footprint relaxations yesterday, with BCC.
My certifier seems to think that relaxation approval (if all goes well) shouldn't take more than a week and then allow 3 weeks for DA. As Jelly legs said find out who is your allocated assessor and keep on their back. Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 5Mar 11, 2009 7:49 am We applied to have relaxation to the boundary for overhang of water tank, battering outside the BLE, gas bottles & eaves also slightly over the BLE.
We took the plans in to Indooroopilly Office on Jan 20th - she said she would do it in 5 - 10 days for us. Without going in to too much detail, we went back 2 weeks later to find out she couldn't find the forms, and later found out they were sent to the Southern office, we contacted them - it had been sent to Brisbane Office, contacted them - the lady was off - waited - found out they were lost !!!! Half a day later, she called to say they were found - and then about 1.5wks later we got our approval (after them sending us the wrong ones for the wrong block). So - in all - they are pretty hopeless - hopefully they won't lose anything of yours or give you the wrong info like we were on many occassions - I'd say probably about 4 weeks ! As they have said below - keep on to them, and lets just hope your assessor works more than 2 days a week to give you a better chance! Building in Brisbane SW Suburbs Started on site with plumbing on 30/3 - Lock up 2/5 - 15/6 Recd Fixing Invoice - 18/6 Painter to start ! Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 6Mar 11, 2009 8:28 am Ah thats so typical of BCC! It could have been approved in under 2 weeks!
At least it was a farcry from the 3 months builders are telling some clients Our Blog! http://cityplantation.blogspot.com | Building the Havana 485 with Plantation Homes (Henley) Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 7Mar 11, 2009 8:46 am Thats what we thought too Gester ! The 1st girl said she would do it in 5 - 10days - but no - she gave us all the wrong info blah blah blah !
if they hadn't have stuffed around sending it to 5 different depts - it could have been done quickly. I guess its always wise to allow more time for their mess-ups etc too I suppose. Although they did get it done quickly for us in the end - goes to show you they CAN do it in just over a week ! ha Building in Brisbane SW Suburbs Started on site with plumbing on 30/3 - Lock up 2/5 - 15/6 Recd Fixing Invoice - 18/6 Painter to start ! Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 8Mar 11, 2009 12:44 pm Gester Ah thats so typical of BCC! It could have been approved in under 2 weeks! At least it was a farcry from the 3 months builders are telling some clients Ok not BCC but we just had our plans approved by Moreton Bay council and it only took 9 days! Thats from the day Plantation sent them off to the day we got them back approved!!!!! I know it doesnt help this thread but I was so darn excited that I had to share Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 9Mar 11, 2009 12:58 pm Thats great 78xtc - not only that you got them back so quickly - but that your builder did it for you! We had to do our own. Building in Brisbane SW Suburbs Started on site with plumbing on 30/3 - Lock up 2/5 - 15/6 Recd Fixing Invoice - 18/6 Painter to start ! Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 10Mar 11, 2009 3:39 pm 9 Days!!! Whoah!! Plantation use private certifiers though and it's mainly just plumbing and boundary relaxations that need actual council approval?
Congrats 78xtc! Do you have a start date yet? Our Blog! http://cityplantation.blogspot.com | Building the Havana 485 with Plantation Homes (Henley) Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 11Mar 12, 2009 8:36 am Gester 9 Days!!! Whoah!! Plantation use private certifiers though and it's mainly just plumbing and boundary relaxations that need actual council approval? Congrats 78xtc! Do you have a start date yet? I really thought it would take longer because the house needs specific acoustic requirements because there is a train line near the back fence line. Every other house in the area is a one storey but we are building a two storey so we thought it might take a long time given we'd be the test bunnies for the two storey homes. Fortunately it didnt! We are just waiting for the banks to send us our mortgage documentation and we are ready to roll. Plantation have set the 30th of March for us to move into Production with the cut happening the first week of april - on the premise that the bank gets their crap together! I hate waiting!!!!! We put our deposit down with Plantation at the end of november so I'm pretty happy with the time it's taken given they were closed for 3 weeks over xmas and we changed house designs twice Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 12Mar 12, 2009 8:42 am Gester 9 Days!!! Whoah!! Plantation use private certifiers though and it's mainly just plumbing and boundary relaxations that need actual council approval? Congrats 78xtc! Do you have a start date yet? Gester - I just checked out your blog! I LOVE your upstairs floor plan Everyone's blogs are making me want to do my own!!!! Have you had your electrical apt yet? we initially set aside an initial 5K in our contract for electrical and then we went and had our apt & our quote came back at 10K And that was still without the ducted vacuum that I wanted so dearly So we ended up cutting it back to $7500 - that with supplying a crap load of lights and putting some oysters in some areas instead of down lights I cannot believe how expensive everything is! Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 13Mar 12, 2009 10:06 am 1st Week of April - How exciting that your now so close! We put our deposit down in the last week of Dec so maybe we could be lucky too and start in a month or two. But still I dont think we could ever come close to 9 Days approval!
We're keeping the blog, more for our records of the pain building is causing us but also to look back once it's done and think how it was all worth it. We had upstairs specially changed for the bigger dressing room so hopefully it will still turn out ok Speaking of Electricals we just had a call from Your Home Consulting this morning to make a time. We wanted a whole heap of downlights as well (Close to 65) which hearing of your experience isn't going to be cheap What were the expensive parts you found? We also wanted vacumaid as well but if you spent over $10k without it *sigh* I was looking forward to the electical appointment but not so much now lol Oh what plan are you building 78xtc?? Our Blog! http://cityplantation.blogspot.com | Building the Havana 485 with Plantation Homes (Henley) Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 14Mar 12, 2009 11:05 am Gester 1st Week of April - How exciting that your now so close! Speaking of Electricals we just had a call from Your Home Consulting this morning to make a time. We wanted a whole heap of downlights as well (Close to 65) which hearing of your experience isn't going to be cheap What were the expensive parts you found? We also wanted vacumaid as well but if you spent over $10k without it *sigh* I was looking forward to the electical appointment but not so much now lol Oh what plan are you building 78xtc?? We are building the Empire - the very original floorplan they did not the new ones as we preferred the way you walked from your bathroom into the dressing room without having to trapse over your master bedroom carpet. What kills you is the additional light points - as plantation generally only allow for one light bulb per room any addition down light you put in is an additional $66 on top of the cost of the down light which is $73 for the low voltage normal or $91 for the gimble (the ones that can move around). So you are roughly looking at $150 per downlight and you HAVE to get YHC to do the low voltage down lights - you can't supply yourself. On top of that you then need to budget for extra light circuits and safety switches - they are $246 a pop and from memory I think each one holds 15 lights (but I could be wrong). If you want those purdy lights under you kitchen cupboards that light your stone bench tops - well they are $196 EACH! Unless you go for those triangle shaped ones that you can see poking out under your cup boards as they are a bit cheaper. If you add powerpoints you also have to add extra circuits and if you are having ducting air con you'll need to upgrade your 3 phase isolator switch - we needed a 20 amp which cost us $387! The other thing we spent some money on was junction boxes outside - both for future garden lighting and for outside lights on the side of the house - they are $66 each. We ended up taking out a lot of the down lights and opting to supply our own recessed fluro downlight - about 100mm wide instead of putting all low voltage down lights in. That way we were only paying for the additional light points where necessary and the installation cost of $23 each and we could shop around for our own fluro down lights. We are also supplying our own LCD's for up the stairs. I hope this helps! Let me know how you go! Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 15Mar 12, 2009 11:28 am They are expensive
i bought the under cupboard fluoro downlights for 39 buck each and all it is is another wire pee light and the wires are run through the cupboard and the lights are recessed into the base of the cupboard using a holesaw and then the cabinet maker just puts a false floor in the cupboard which covers the light and the wires. have you tried talking to the sparky to get all this done for cash. we did our own electrical and plantation never saw a plan we just wired it up at frame stage and worked in with the cabinet maker re under cupboard lights we just went with the recessed downlights with the big 18w cfl globes i think light and globe cost 15 bucks each at the time, they look fine and they throw more ligh which is good with the 9ft ceilings i found wide world of lights ar morayfield very well priced why arent you fitting the outside lights now rather than the junction boxes?? Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 16Mar 12, 2009 12:31 pm dinga They are expensive why arent you fitting the outside lights now rather than the junction boxes?? You'll have to talk to my husband about that - I asked the same question but my eyes glazed over after 5 mins of him prattling on about something. The outside lights are his dept... hmm maybe that's why we have junction boxes and not proper lights.. then he can just leave it and leave it... I married a "gonna" not a "doer" Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 18Apr 02, 2009 4:39 pm Gester, we got our relaxation approval last week (so it took about 2 weeks) and are just waiting on DA. Which my certifier tells me is pretty much done just gotta dot the i's and cross the t's. So should be ready for site scrape in a few weeks. Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 19Apr 02, 2009 4:50 pm Congratulations wake_me! That is really really quick... mine has been 5 weeks and counting It's with a Private Certifier too so I really dont know what the hold up is. Were you able to track your Boundry Relaxation through the BCC website? Our Blog! http://cityplantation.blogspot.com | Building the Havana 485 with Plantation Homes (Henley) Re: Brisbane Council Approval Time? 20Apr 02, 2009 8:06 pm I did have a look on the BCC website but no change to property info. Dont know if i was looking in the right place though. I have to admit, i did have a small advantage, as my brother in law used to work with the contractor who was assessing the relaxation on the councils behalf and my certifier used to be his boss. I would ring the council and just see if you can speak with the assessor to see how its progressing, as they tend to sit on the applications a bit longer if they dont get chased up. Hope yours wont be too much longer. 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 3 1208 1 2992 |