Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 08, 2012 10:52 pm Hi Everyone, I am sure this is not a new problem that I am putting in here and would have been discussed numerous times, which precisely why I need some help from the fellow members to show 'me the light', it seems a tunnel with no end so far. Anyways, coming to the point Issue I have recently bought a property in Mitcham, VIC (whitehorse council) and it is corner block. Clean slate, the current house has been demolished and there are no trees on it, the idea is to put a new single story house facing the shorter side (width). The existing crossover is on the length of the house. Now the problem is that there is a paper bark tree on the nature strip on the front of the block, the council looked at it and said that they cannot remove the tree (being a mature one) and also they would not allow me to put a crossover on the other end as it is a corner block (some traffic rules) This pretty much stuffs my plans. I have already selected Montrose from Carlisle to be built there but with this issue , everything goes for a toss. I was wondering if any of you have gone through a similar issue and was there any solution or way out of this? Or am I fighting a losing battle with the council, mind you I was ready to pay for the removal as well, so far the answer has been a verbal No Is it possible to put crossovers in the corner? Any help is greatly appreciated. Re: New Crossover issue with tree Corner block 2May 08, 2012 10:58 pm And here is the pic of the tree http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/treek.jpg/ Re: New Crossover issue with tree Corner block 3May 09, 2012 7:10 pm thats a nice tree.... be a shame if anything happened to it... Don't think you can get round the traffic issues though. Hi , I'm currently going through this now within the Whitehorse council which has a similar set of restrictions. We're having to make compromises with our floor plan due… 3 30666 The gap can be adjusted so it's tighter. You can definitely set up corner cabinets to have the same gap as standard doors. 2 13532 4 14255 |