Hello,
My sister and I are thinking of building a house. Where we are looking at building is zoned agricultural/rural in southern Tasmania. If the land is under 40 hectares (which it will be) we can only build one dwelling on it but we want to be able to live separately. We most likely won't be able to get two titles next door to each other or anything like that.
My question is, what exactly constitutes one dwelling? The woman at the council said that we would have to share one of the essential rooms so we were thinking of sharing the kitchen. The building would essentially be two two-storey 7m2 squares joined at one corner (like a squared-off figure eight) with the kitchen forming a rounded pie-shaped wedge at the back.
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The whole building would be made of the same materials but the facades would be different styles (one victorian, one georgian) and the roofs would be different pitches. The kitchen-appendix-thing would only be one storey, with lawn on the roof, but would otherwise be made of the same materials. Before we go to a house designer or someone like that (and they laugh at us) I was just wondering if anyone here had any knowledge of whether this would likely pass as one dwelling or house?
Thanks for your help,
Angela