I have been lurking ever since we bought our block in November but seeing that there are not too many rear block discussions or plans I thought I'd upload mine so if anyone goes through this in the future they can have some idea of what can be done.
Initially we wanted to buy an established in the area but the houses here are so old and we never found one we liked and when this house subdivided theirs and was looking to sell we thought we'd have a look.
There has been trials and tribulations with buying a rear block. Things like turning circles (we didn't want one, didn't realise it wasn't an option), lengthy council approvals on everything (they refused our initial roof colour selection ), extra retaining walls and issues of access have blown our site costs but finally we got planning approval this week. Met with intelligent homes yesterday and pre start on Tuesday, things are finally looking up.
Here are our plans for your perusal, if there are any comments you guys would like to make they would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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