Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 05, 2014 9:41 pm Hi Everyone, we're in the process of contracts at the moment with porter davis building a house in clyde victoria. over the weekend i found a promotion on their website saying you can get free colorbond roofing upgrades with selected houses, which ours was included in. when i said to our building coordinator we wanted this she emailed back saying: 'the blocks already have town planning on them & they cannot make any external changes.' i rang the casey council this afternoon and the lady over the phone said its possibly in our section 32 and to read our land contract when i got home. Which i did and i cannot find a thing about it. So possibly what I'm thinking is because your not paying for it they don't want to go out of their way to help you, I'm sure if i was upgrading to colorbond and it was going to cost me they'd find a way around it. Can anyone shed any light on previous experiences with roofing changes & town planning? Thanks. Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 2Jun 06, 2014 9:14 am Usually your estate will have design guidelines, we're building in clyde too and we can have any type of roof as long as the colours are approved. I would ask her to explain this further and then ring the DAP (Design assessment panel) of your estate. They are the ones who know exactly what you can and cant have and if they say its ok then it is! Because I'm certain it cant be that big of a deal! Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 4Jun 07, 2014 2:28 pm Yes it's very strange, there's 6 houses in out street with roofs on and 3 have colorbond, have porter Davis have built them all. I tried ringing our Conveyancer yesterday before our contract appointments but she was in a meeting. They were still playing the same card with the town planning saying they would have to re apply and it can take upto 6 months to be approved. We've got 10 days to change anything after yesterday so I'll ring the Conveyancer again Tuesday and see what she says. Lacey we are also building in Pasadena. Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 5Jun 12, 2014 11:14 am sim_r32 Yes it's very strange, there's 6 houses in out street with roofs on and 3 have colorbond, have porter Davis have built them all. I tried ringing our Conveyancer yesterday before our contract appointments but she was in a meeting. They were still playing the same card with the town planning saying they would have to re apply and it can take upto 6 months to be approved. We've got 10 days to change anything after yesterday so I'll ring the Conveyancer again Tuesday and see what she says. Lacey we are also building in Pasadena. aw cool Where abouts? Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 7Jun 12, 2014 1:54 pm sim_r32 We're on kosciuszko circuit which is at the front where all those 2 storey places are going up at the moment. We were just there on the weekend and saw all those we're a bit deeper in on the hill farm park frontage on bimberry circuit theres a Facebook page for the community too called "pasadena clyde community" if you haven't joined it already. Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 8Jun 12, 2014 4:57 pm Nice are you over the 5 ways road side? When does yours start? We're meant to start august just have to fix a few contract things and hopefully get somewhere with this roof issue then all good! I've joined the community a while ago it was quite annoying at first always just people advertising things. Seemed to have changed a bit over the past fortnight though. Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 9Jun 12, 2014 9:43 pm sim_r32 Nice are you over the 5 ways road side? When does yours start? We're meant to start august just have to fix a few contract things and hopefully get somewhere with this roof issue then all good! I've joined the community a while ago it was quite annoying at first always just people advertising things. Seemed to have changed a bit over the past fortnight though. nah we didnt want to buy on the road side - apparently theyre widening it and we didnt want the noise we dont title til march next year !! yeah I thought that too. I didnt want to buy DVDs or a mickey mouse toy lol Re: Colorbond roof - town planning. 11Jun 15, 2014 6:49 pm sim_r32 Hahaha that Mickey Mouse just wouldn't sell! We'll be in ours by the time yours is titled! Probably see you around at some stage good luck aw so exciting ! definetly will ! Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. In my opinion you dont need to replace or paint the roof other than treat surface rust… 1 10209 You should pressure clean your roof first and make sure the paint you buy also is anti mould. 4 18565 Give Jonathan a call. Tell him you know me. He is in my opinion the best surveyor I have ever worked with. His number is 0425 285 622 All the best Simeon 3 12406 |