Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 13, 2011 9:09 pm Hi Aurora, Found you all by google what a great place to get all info about Aurora, we are buying land in April release ???, as they say and are at exhausting stage of design selection, would greately appreciate guidence regarding query of garage setback of 5.5 meter at front design guideline. We had narrowed the choice to one design but it falls at 5.35 meter garage setback to brick wall of garage and 5.57 meter to garage door, so we have about difference of 150 mm to minimum requirement of Aurora, I had asked builder to check with Aurora the requirement as it could be from garage door then the design we love would be good to fit rather then paying $$$$ for 100 mm cut in floor design, thought rather than wait for reply ask the experienced people of forum, if any one had this close call in design, guidence would be highly appreciated Would love to meet great people of Auroa and join ACA soon Re: Front Garage setback 2Mar 14, 2011 10:32 am Can you move your footprint back within your allotment (i.e. move the whole house back 0.15m? that way no change to the house at all and meet the required setbacks for the front. Thanks Draftroom that definitely helps a heap. We are still at the very early stage of planning to see what kind of house would fit on our plot. While we are on a… 3 15767 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 8451 This was on google. Development controls 2.3.1 Front setback D1 New buildings within residential areas shall adhere to a front building line, which is 5.5-6m to the… 1 3664 |