We are building on a VicUrban development.
We signed our land contract and settled back in March 08.
We signed our building contract and plans in April 08.
Our slab was poured last weekend and we only got told on Thursday the following, which has left me rather angry.
Our home has the garage at the rear of the block. Our house fronts onto parkland (ie: our naturestrip is a huge park), so to enter our block we have to drive up a laneway at the rear of our house and park in our garage.
VicUrban have just now decided that we have to move our rear fence line 0.5m further into our block to have a landscaped garden along the laneway. ie: it is compulsory now that we have a 0.5m garden along the rear boundary of our block - so they're screwing us out of 0.5m of land! And our block is tiny to start with.
Can they do this?! The plans we signed did not show this setback.