Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 21Dec 20, 2014 12:43 pm I just realised I'm a bit behind & need to do a quick catch-up... At the moment we are still waiting on our approval. According to someone I spoke to yesterday from M. it won't be given until after Christmas because the private certifiers have already stopped working for the year. This means it will have taken at least 9 weeks for approval to be given (when it was only supposed to take 2). It's quite frustrating, but in the long-run hopefully it won't have a negative effect on our build. The reasons for the hold-up: * Initially I'm not sure what went wrong. It took 15 days to be told that we needed to pay money to Council before approval could be given (that's 5 days after we should have already had our approval). I don't know if this was because the certifier didn't pass on the information until then, or if M. were given the information and they didn't pass it on straight away. If it is something standard for Council, then I don't know why it took 15 days to be told about it. I would have thought it would have been part of a checklist of items that are required and checked when the plans were initially handed over. * Council gave M. wrong information which meant we wasted about 2 weeks of emailing forms & trying to make payments that were wrong * Council seem to have taken a long time to do their bit (about 2 weeks). The last we heard from M. was that they were waiting on our full Road Opening Permit from Council. We have been busy pulling down a garage/shed from our property ready for the build, as well as organising demolition, and planning a demolition sale as well as trying to get more packing done. It seems strange to be doing all these things when we don't actually have our approval yet. We are planning to have the house demolished starting on 30th January, so hopefully our approval has come in by then or we will have to push it back. If we have to push that back it's starting to get close to our end date from our contract. Busy times ahead for January by the look of it! Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 22Jan 10, 2015 1:00 pm We have approval to demolish and work is set to begin on 30th January. The only thing that could hold it up is our building approval. We are still waiting for it to be given. Hopefully this coming week will be the week it arrives as the certifiers are back to work after their Christmas break and our work permit from council has been given to them (so there's now no paperwork to hold them up!). Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 23Jan 12, 2015 3:24 pm Today we received a call from Metricon to tell us that we have approval to build. We're still waiting on the official documents, but it's good to know that things are moving ahead! Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 24Jan 12, 2015 6:55 pm Najam Today we received a call from Metricon to tell us that we have approval to build. We're still waiting on the official documents, but it's good to know that things are moving ahead! Congratulations!! I hope ours doesn't take as long!! Would your build have already started if the approval came through earlier? Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 25Jan 12, 2015 8:59 pm Thank you! We could possibly have had the slab done in December if we had it approved earlier. I'm just happy we can move on to the build soon ) Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 26Jan 12, 2015 9:07 pm Najam Thank you! We could possibly have had the slab done in December if we had it approved earlier. I'm just happy we can move on to the build soon ) Looking forward to your updates!! Just cannot wait for ours - I am just too exhausted now! Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 27Jan 12, 2015 9:14 pm Yes, it's draining isn't it! I feel relieved that we get to move on. Have your plans been submitted? Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 28Jan 12, 2015 9:26 pm Najam Yes, it's draining isn't it! I feel relieved that we get to move on. Have your plans been submitted? Incredibly draining. We bought our house + block last February - and the search started last January. We changed our mind half way and thought of buying another place, and converting the place to an investment.... but Sydney prices went even more crazy!!! so we did a new tender in October / November. Just resolving our plan queries following our contract appointment in December. Just cannot wait till this admin stuff is over Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 29Jan 17, 2015 6:12 pm Najam How long did M take to prepare your files for CDC? Thanks M Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 31Jan 26, 2015 3:47 pm monalisa Najam How long did M take to prepare your files for CDC? Thanks M I can't remember exactly, but I think it was about a week or two after the originally quoted time-frame. Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 32Jan 26, 2015 3:49 pm Room2Breathe Do you have a picture of your plan? Hi Room2Breathe I'm not very good at uploading photos on here yet, so here's the link to our plans https://ourlittlebighousebuild.wordpress.com/plans/ Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 33Jan 26, 2015 6:24 pm Najam Room2Breathe Do you have a picture of your plan? Hi Room2Breathe I'm not very good at uploading photos on here yet, so here's the link to our plans https://ourlittlebighousebuild.wordpress.com/plans/ Looks fantastic!! Re: Metricon Laguna - Sydney 34Jan 27, 2015 6:41 am Thanks! We're pretty excited about it. Can't wait to see them start to build! Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10750 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. 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