Thanks Lenz. Good luck hope yours goes through ok this time.
Fingers crossed we don't have to change plans. We really liked this plan 😟
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 110Sep 22, 2017 9:54 pm Rachael13 What a run around that your getting. They could make is so much easier on themselves and just approve your application, then it's one less application to review. Sigh...... It feels like they are all passing the buck. No one wants to give us an answer. Just breath........ we’ll get there eventually. *we hope, lol Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 111Sep 23, 2017 12:06 pm Bri1234 Rachael13 What a run around that your getting. They could make is so much easier on themselves and just approve your application, then it's one less application to review. Sigh...... It feels like they are all passing the buck. No one wants to give us an answer. Just breath........ we’ll get there eventually. *we hope, lol Good luck! Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 112Sep 23, 2017 7:09 pm Bri1234 Rachael13 What a run around that your getting. They could make is so much easier on themselves and just approve your application, then it's one less application to review. Sigh...... It feels like they are all passing the buck. No one wants to give us an answer. Just breath........ we’ll get there eventually. *we hope, lol As I advised earlier you need to engaged the services of a town planner rather than appease Council. Councils are always conservative on what they approve. You may need to go to VCAT to get what you want. Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 113Sep 24, 2017 8:48 am So frustrating!! What is Simonds doing about all this? Sick draughtsman, no clear direction. I'd be asking for a return of my deposit and seeing a lawyer for damages/ expenses incurred! The sales agent shouldn't have sold you on that design in the first place! It was always going to be too big (there is quite a fair bit of dispensation difference). The draughtsman should have picked it up and flagged it when they drew up your contract. These was exactly what happened with us BUT we hadn't knocked our house down. We made clear that seeing as we had to look at another design, all builders were back in contention. Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 114Sep 25, 2017 9:50 am JB1 Bri1234 Rachael13 What a run around that your getting. They could make is so much easier on themselves and just approve your application, then it's one less application to review. Sigh...... It feels like they are all passing the buck. No one wants to give us an answer. Just breath........ we’ll get there eventually. *we hope, lol As I advised earlier you need to engaged the services of a town planner rather than appease Council. Councils are always conservative on what they approve. You may need to go to VCAT to get what you want. Sorry JB1 meant to get back to you. I spoke with the Council Town Planning Dept (no help) and also a private Town Planning Organisation. They were helpful with advice but not in being able to help us. They pretty much said that councils could be very stringent with their regs but it's also up to the discretion of the person assessing the application at the time. We might be able to get some dispensation but most likely they'll stick with the 7.5m in line with the house to our left. Because we are on a corner it makes it harder. Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 115Sep 25, 2017 9:59 am Lenz88 So frustrating!! What is Simonds doing about all this? Sick draughtsman, no clear direction. I'd be asking for a return of my deposit and seeing a lawyer for damages/ expenses incurred! The sales agent shouldn't have sold you on that design in the first place! It was always going to be too big (there is quite a fair bit of dispensation difference). The draughtsman should have picked it up and flagged it when they drew up your contract. These was exactly what happened with us BUT we hadn't knocked our house down. We made clear that seeing as we had to look at another design, all builders were back in contention. Thanks Lenz88, We went in to this as rookies and are really learning and regretting now. We loved our salesperson but looking back now she should not have sold us on that plan the way it was. She told us she'd get someone to check the setback and make sure it was ok. Obviously this didn't happen. Meeting is this week (if it doesn't get postponed again). KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 116Sep 25, 2017 6:10 pm Another East Melbourne KDR. Sorry to see what you are going through. If it’s any consolation, I got a 9m set back thanks to my neighbour’s double block. Backyard is starting to look pretty sad. Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 117Sep 25, 2017 7:32 pm kirashogun Another East Melbourne KDR. Sorry to see what you are going through. If it’s any consolation, I got a 9m set back thanks to my neighbour’s double block. Backyard is starting to look pretty sad. Oh wow 9m. That is huge. We can’t push ours back due to an easement along the back fence. Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 118Sep 27, 2017 6:56 am We are also in the KDR gang....and also have a 9m set back to the garage. I'm sorry to hear that you're having so much trouble. I have hated every minute of this experience. It's been constant fighting and negotiating and chasing people up the whole way. Our admin phase was just over 12mths!! That was with a straight forward house with no structural changes. Council took 3mths to approve our application. We are now close to the end of the build but still not being given a rough handover date....just being told "hopefully before Christmas" I hope the council comes good for you 🤞🏼🤞🏼 Metricon Metro 32 KDRB Bayside Melbourne viewtopic.php?f=31&t=84012 Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 119Sep 27, 2017 2:53 pm JLH222 We are also in the KDR gang....and also have a 9m set back to the garage. I'm sorry to hear that you're having so much trouble. I have hated every minute of this experience. It's been constant fighting and negotiating and chasing people up the whole way. Our admin phase was just over 12mths!! That was with a straight forward house with no structural changes. Council took 3mths to approve our application. We are now close to the end of the build but still not being given a rough handover date....just being told "hopefully before Christmas" I hope the council comes good for you 🤞🏼🤞🏼 Metricon Metro 32 KDRB Bayside Melbourne viewtopic.php?f=31&t=84012 Wow another person with 9m setback. That is insane. Yeah I have to say I'm not liking the whole process. I keep saying, never again. lol Hope you get a handover date soon. *fingers crossed. Re: KDR - SE Melb - Simonds Flinders 120Oct 07, 2017 1:58 pm It's been a few weeks and a few things have happened so I thought I'd give a quick update and fingers crossed I don't jinx things, lol So as part of our build we needed dispensation from our council for our setback. We asked for 5.83m, they wanted 7.5m. They rejected our plans. A time was made to sit down with the drafting manager and our CRC to see what changes we could make. This took a few weeks because he was unwell and then working in the head office. We finally got our appointment and went in feeling pretty down about how on earth we were going to reduce our build by 1.67m and still be happy. We couldn't see how it could be done. As it turned out the DM had had a good look into it all. He's spoken with the council (who were no help to them either) and he'd gone over all the regulations. He had a plan. In the end we managed to move the whole house back slightly, about 100mm, on the block but still not have it on the easement. We also lost 480mm out of our garage which wasn't too bad. We had increased it originally for storage space. So we lost some of the storage space we wanted but everything else about the house is as we wanted it. Including our facade, Yay. Between these changes and whatever way around he found in the reg's, we got an email a few days later to say the building surveyor had approved our plans, no need to go back to council. Woohoo! So right now we are waiting for the final building plans to be drawn up and we're still waiting for final site costs. But hopefully we're not far off going to site. Fingers crossed. We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37150 The biggest challenge will be if you take out a loan and then run out of money - you'll have an incomplete security and lenders do not like this so you can get stuck.… 2 19113 Hi, I am looking into doing a KDR in Melbourne and am contemplating using Kialla Homes. I am looking for feedback on them from others who have built with them. 0 13448 |