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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 22Nov 08, 2017 6:16 pm Hi Rob, BAL rating is based on a simple check list and the builder is required to get it done before lodging DA with council. If BAL rating is higher, then there are additional construction requirements. Good news: my builder confirmed that any extra cost is borne by them. They probably new it before and was already part of the H&L package. rob91 Hey Andy, Where abouts do you find the BAL rating ddetermined? I don't know about everyone else but this process seems to be taking a long time. I've been told council lodgement is hopefully end of this week. I don't know what's causing it to take this long! Rob Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 23Nov 15, 2017 2:49 pm Hi All, The BAL rating can be found in you Bushfire report. Our report also gave our lot (141) a BAL of 12.5. We signed a Variation with the builder to cover the necessary changes at no extra cost but we are building with Thrive not Rawson. Does anyone know the DA lodgement number with council? My building contact asked me for an extra signature on a page last week after saying that the council 'reviewed our application' - hopefully that is a good sign because it does seem to be taking forever! Sarah Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 24Dec 02, 2017 9:24 am sarah louu Hi All, The BAL rating can be found in you Bushfire report. Our report also gave our lot (141) a BAL of 12.5. We signed a Variation with the builder to cover the necessary changes at no extra cost but we are building with Thrive not Rawson. Does anyone know the DA lodgement number with council? My building contact asked me for an extra signature on a page last week after saying that the council 'reviewed our application' - hopefully that is a good sign because it does seem to be taking forever! Sarah Hi Sarah, Sorry for late reply. Yes you can see your DA in Liverpool council eplanning website. https://eplanning.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/ ... ation.aspx Search your address eg Propellor and wait for few seconds it will show all DAs in that Street. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 25Dec 02, 2017 10:15 am Andy909 sarah louu Hi All, The BAL rating can be found in you Bushfire report. Our report also gave our lot (141) a BAL of 12.5. We signed a Variation with the builder to cover the necessary changes at no extra cost but we are building with Thrive not Rawson. Does anyone know the DA lodgement number with council? My building contact asked me for an extra signature on a page last week after saying that the council 'reviewed our application' - hopefully that is a good sign because it does seem to be taking forever! Sarah Hi Sarah, Sorry for late reply. Yes you can see your DA in Liverpool council eplanning website. https://eplanning.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/ ... ation.aspx Search your address eg Propellor and wait for few seconds it will show all DAs in that Street. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thanks Andy, ours doesn't seem to be there at the moment but they are doing site upgrades this weekend so I will look again on Monday. My husband went to the estate the other day and there were three slabs down already... lucky people! Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 26Jan 09, 2018 8:58 pm Hi , I am about to sign a tender with Thrive homes for Orchid Lane , they mentioned the land will register by dec 2018 but there is no sign of development. They also gave me a date in march 2019 , if by then the construction is not started then they I have to pay 600$ to Thrive homes. Is it the same clause for everyone ? given that it took more than 2.5 years for Lucere to get registered , I am not very positive for Orchid lane. Thanks Sandeep Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 27Jan 09, 2018 9:12 pm sarah louu Our house and land package is being done through Thrive and our inclusions were actually quite good. We are local and were able to go and have a look at their display home in Airds as well which was great. We added a few optional extras and took advantage of Thrive matching the first home builders grant. I got the email about July registration which is great! Feeling a lot more confident that we will have our house in the first quarter of next year. Hi Sarah, I too planning to sign a tender with thrive Homes for Orchid Lane. How is your experience so far with them. In the tender they mentioned that if Thrive home unable to start by march 2019 then we have to pay them certain amount per month and the fixed price to be revised after the due date , is it the same for you? I am bit worried as the land registration might get delayed so I should be penalized for that. Thanks Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 28Jan 10, 2018 5:30 pm Sandeep sarah louu Our house and land package is being done through Thrive and our inclusions were actually quite good. We are local and were able to go and have a look at their display home in Airds as well which was great. We added a few optional extras and took advantage of Thrive matching the first home builders grant. I got the email about July registration which is great! Feeling a lot more confident that we will have our house in the first quarter of next year. Hi Sarah, I too planning to sign a tender with thrive Homes for Orchid Lane. How is your experience so far with them. In the tender they mentioned that if Thrive home unable to start by march 2019 then we have to pay them certain amount per month and the fixed price to be revised after the due date , is it the same for you? I am bit worried as the land registration might get delayed so I should be penalized for that. Thanks Hi Sandeep, Yes our contract has something like that in it but for us it was far enough in the future that we didn't really worry too much about it. It is fairly standard across most building companies from my knowledge. My experience with them so far has been okay - they were great during the tender and signing contract etc. They haven't been so good with the D/A approval process. We were told that ours was held up to go through with a bunch of applications for the Lucere estate from Rawson and Thrive which would be expedited. Our application needed more information, except the contact person from Thrive didn't act on it so we missed the applications that were expedited and we are still waiting for out approval while others have started building already which is a little bit frustrating. We always have to chase them up to get information too - but i suppose that depends on who you deal with at Thrive. Hopefully we get a good building contact and start to have a better experience with them! Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 29Jan 11, 2018 9:12 am Hi Sarah, Thanks for sharing your experience. I know its frustrating when things doesn't move as per plan but I have been to the site I think they will start your build soon. Till they don't penalise us for their delay I am fine. I have signed the tender, the next will be contract. I will keep you posted and will share my experience. All the best. Sandeep Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 30Jan 11, 2018 11:11 am sarah louu Sandeep sarah louu Our house and land package is being done through Thrive and our inclusions were actually quite good. We are local and were able to go and have a look at their display home in Airds as well which was great. We added a few optional extras and took advantage of Thrive matching the first home builders grant. I got the email about July registration which is great! Feeling a lot more confident that we will have our house in the first quarter of next year. Hi Sarah, I too planning to sign a tender with thrive Homes for Orchid Lane. How is your experience so far with them. In the tender they mentioned that if Thrive home unable to start by march 2019 then we have to pay them certain amount per month and the fixed price to be revised after the due date , is it the same for you? I am bit worried as the land registration might get delayed so I should be penalized for that. Thanks Hi Sandeep, Yes our contract has something like that in it but for us it was far enough in the future that we didn't really worry too much about it. It is fairly standard across most building companies from my knowledge. My experience with them so far has been okay - they were great during the tender and signing contract etc. They haven't been so good with the D/A approval process. We were told that ours was held up to go through with a bunch of applications for the Lucere estate from Rawson and Thrive which would be expedited. Our application needed more information, except the contact person from Thrive didn't act on it so we missed the applications that were expedited and we are still waiting for out approval while others have started building already which is a little bit frustrating. We always have to chase them up to get information too - but i suppose that depends on who you deal with at Thrive. Hopefully we get a good building contact and start to have a better experience with them! Hi Sarah, is your land registered and are you waiting for CDC approval to start the build ? for house and land package they should have everything ready as soon as the land is registered within a month they can start to build. May be resourcing can be an issue here. Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 31Jan 11, 2018 11:30 am Hi Sandeep, Unfortunately that isn't how it is working with our block. Our land is registered BUT we need to get DA approval from Liverpool City Council before we can start to build. Our application is currently with council and we are waiting for it to be approved. We haven't been advised that there will be any resourcing issues once we have the green light from council and our contract states that once the DA is approved, Thrive will start onsite within 4 weeks. Cheers, Sarah Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 32Jan 11, 2018 12:00 pm sarah louu Hi Sandeep, Unfortunately that isn't how it is working with our block. Our land is registered BUT we need to get DA approval from Liverpool City Council before we can start to build. Our application is currently with council and we are waiting for it to be approved. We haven't been advised that there will be any resourcing issues once we have the green light from council and our contract states that once the DA is approved, Thrive will start onsite within 4 weeks. Cheers, Sarah Hi Sarah , Thanks for your reply. Once the land is registered we are suppose to pay the land purchase amount. Once the land is mortgaged we are liable to pay monthly EMI its problematic if the build is delayed . could I ask you when your land was registered just to understand in worst scenario by when a build can commence. In my tender it says two months from the land registration date. Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 33Jan 12, 2018 12:13 pm Hi Sandeep, I think our land registered in September from memory. We put our deposit down in April last year, so we had quite a short wait for our registration but the land had been selling for quite a long time before that. Cheers, Sarah Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 34Jan 18, 2018 12:05 pm Hi All, I purchased my H & L at the end of 2015. The DA was approved in December. I am building with Rawson. I am just waiting for the slab to go down. This is my first house, I WAS very excited but I cant believe how long it takes! Then to wait another 10 months they have given them selves to build this house. Im just so over it. The excitement is gone... Has anyone built with Rawson before? Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 35Jan 18, 2018 2:28 pm Hey Belinda, you must have bought in one of the first releases! I agree the excitement has died a little with all the waiting. At least now progress will move more quickly and be more than just moving dirt around. The Christmas shutdown is really frustrating because it's so long (though Thrive seemed to have people working last week when I drove past). It's really obvious that Thrive are pushing themselves to get their products out there much quicker but Rawson being more established have more internal process and are taking longer each step of the way (with the exception of Sarah who seems to have been given a dud of a Thrive pre-construction coordinator). I really hope all this process and waiting results in a good quality product. Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 36Jan 19, 2018 8:22 am Welcome Belinda - which lot are you building on? i definitely agree with the excitement having faded - not only have we been dudded with a not-so-great pre-construction advisor, our DA application has now been allocated to three separate Assessment Officers at Council... so our wait continues. the latest is that our application can't be expedited because of the way the house is set on the block (we are on a corner so obviously it isn't as straightfoward as some applications). We have been told it will be done by early in February now, so we are just hanging in there. It is promising to see some of the houses going up already though Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 37Jan 21, 2018 10:33 am I'm in lot 101. I had a dud reconstruction girl as well. Every time I would talk to her she would say that the slab will go down December, then January then February so i got really mad at her and she had the site supervisor call me. He didn't give me much confidence at all he said ill have the house done by the contact date which is 43 weeks in which I have no idea when that will start! It's just hard as we are holding of having a family until wet have our house but it's being delayed. How long does it usually take to build a house?? Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 38Jan 23, 2018 8:15 am My husband and I are in the exact same position Belinda! When we discussed it at the beginning Thrive said it was a 17 week construction to get the house up - obviously that is only if the weather cooperates. Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 39Jan 24, 2018 7:25 am Also, I had a look last night Belinda and we are going to be neighbours Aaron and I are building on Lot 141 to the left of your block. Re: Lucere estate at Leppington 40Jan 24, 2018 7:43 am oh yay!!! ill bake muffins and we can exchange sugar hahaha did you see they have an office in front of my lot? what on earth is that about!? |