Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Knock down rebuild in Hornsby Council - CDC advice pleas 2Aug 22, 2012 11:41 am Kerith - Building an Eden Brae Newport 40 in Sydney's North http://kerithsedenbraehouse.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Knock down rebuild in Hornsby Council - CDC advice pleas 4Aug 22, 2012 12:13 pm KripaUday Hi Kerith, All the torture was because of 15 neighbour objections. Council elections on 15 Sep, so councillors don't give a damn about what you think - votes matter more!!! Great to know you're building with Eden Brae, we're also building a Windsor 40 with them. PLEASE AVOID DA through council - go Complying Development Thanks for the advice. We will be doing a KDAR with Hornsby Council soon. We have only just bought the house/land so still looking at builders at the moment. Fingers xxxxxxed we can do CD. Hopefully after the elections councillors will be keen to show how 'good' they are, we can only hope. Looking forward to following your build... We've had the offer of a short term tenant whilst waiting for CDC/DA home approval and demolition for our knock down rebuild. It would achieve a pretty low rent as it's… 0 13818 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 3197 Hi I live in a 100yr old semi and my neighbour added an additional floor last yr and our architect has advised that we can knock down our semi and build a free-standing… 0 37785 |