Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Demo before CDC approval 14Sep 07, 2019 8:18 pm shazaw Do not demo until you have DA or CDC approved. We did KDR. We had to do our own demo as builder will not organise for us. (most of them don't) So we demo old house before receiving DA approval. Our land was empty for one and half years before building start Jan 2017. Our Council took one and half years to approved DA. I also agree with Norfolk. our Demo guy charged us extra $$ ended up paying nearly 40k for demo. Good luck. Thanks for the advice! hmm yeah i might have to think about this one. Oh how come you demolished before DA approval? Our builder said if going thru DA we have to wait for approval to come first as they don'w know how long it will take. But as we're going with CDC they said it is upto us and that it usually takes about 4-5 weeks for approval to come through. Oh no that's not good about having to fork out so much for the demo!! Yeah so many hidden costs with building isnt there. I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? Re: Demo before CDC approval 15Sep 07, 2019 9:21 pm lozsyd shazaw Do not demo until you have DA or CDC approved. We did KDR. We had to do our own demo as builder will not organise for us. (most of them don't) So we demo old house before receiving DA approval. Our land was empty for one and half years before building start Jan 2017. Our Council took one and half years to approved DA. I also agree with Norfolk. our Demo guy charged us extra $$ ended up paying nearly 40k for demo. Good luck. Thanks for the advice! hmm yeah i might have to think about this one. Oh how come you demolished before DA approval? Our builder said if going thru DA we have to wait for approval to come first as they don'w know how long it will take. But as we're going with CDC they said it is upto us and that it usually takes about 4-5 weeks for approval to come through. Oh no that's not good about having to fork out so much for the demo!! Yeah so many hidden costs with building isnt there. I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? CDC is 10 days typically. Mine was delayed a lot of back and forth and took 13 days Re: Demo before CDC approval 16Sep 08, 2019 12:11 am lozsyd Thanks for the advice! hmm yeah i might have to think about this one. Oh how come you demolished before DA approval? Our builder said if going thru DA we have to wait for approval to come first as they don'w know how long it will take. But as we're going with CDC they said it is upto us and that it usually takes about 4-5 weeks for approval to come through. Oh no that's not good about having to fork out so much for the demo!! Yeah so many hidden costs with building isnt there. I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? We were too naive. In our minds we simply thought that every things will be smooth run. We honestly believed that council will take three months to approved DA, but we run into so much problems with the design of storm water detention also required easement to be registered on neighbouring properties titles. Ps We move out July 2015 and Demo house March 2016. "Our Council took one and half years to approved DA." I should say one and half years to get to the stage of Certificate of Construction ( CC ). lozsyd I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? Yes very happy with this house. All dramas we had with council and during construction with builder were.... simply in the past now. Just try to enjoy the process of building. Build thread : viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624 Re: Demo before CDC approval 17Sep 08, 2019 2:01 pm Manhattan52 lozsyd shazaw Do not demo until you have DA or CDC approved. We did KDR. We had to do our own demo as builder will not organise for us. (most of them don't) So we demo old house before receiving DA approval. Our land was empty for one and half years before building start Jan 2017. Our Council took one and half years to approved DA. I also agree with Norfolk. our Demo guy charged us extra $$ ended up paying nearly 40k for demo. Good luck. Thanks for the advice! hmm yeah i might have to think about this one. Oh how come you demolished before DA approval? Our builder said if going thru DA we have to wait for approval to come first as they don'w know how long it will take. But as we're going with CDC they said it is upto us and that it usually takes about 4-5 weeks for approval to come through. Oh no that's not good about having to fork out so much for the demo!! Yeah so many hidden costs with building isnt there. I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? CDC is 10 days typically. Mine was delayed a lot of back and forth and took 13 days Wow ur CDC was so fast!! I asked my CSC if any chance CDC will be approved sooner and she said the notification period only is 10 working days? and that she expects it to take full 4 weeks? Was ur one on a vacant land? Ours is KDRB. Re: Demo before CDC approval 18Sep 08, 2019 2:03 pm shazaw lozsyd Thanks for the advice! hmm yeah i might have to think about this one. Oh how come you demolished before DA approval? Our builder said if going thru DA we have to wait for approval to come first as they don'w know how long it will take. But as we're going with CDC they said it is upto us and that it usually takes about 4-5 weeks for approval to come through. Oh no that's not good about having to fork out so much for the demo!! Yeah so many hidden costs with building isnt there. I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? We were too naive. In our minds we simply thought that every things will be smooth run. We honestly believed that council will take three months to approved DA, but we run into so much problems with the design of storm water detention also required easement to be registered on neighbouring properties titles. Ps We move out July 2015 and Demo house March 2016. "Our Council took one and half years to approved DA." I should say one and half years to get to the stage of Certificate of Construction ( CC ). lozsyd I'm assuming you have finished your build by now? ru happy with it? Yes very happy with this house. All dramas we had with council and during construction with builder were.... simply in the past now. Just try to enjoy the process of building. Build thread : viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624 I just checked out your build thread!! What a journey you have had!!! my gosh!! ur finished product looks good thou! I see you got to build with sekisui before they stopped doing residential!! I had heard good things about them when they were still doing houses. I'm hoping our build will have less dramas then yours! fingers crossed!! Hi Minho I have heaps of experience in Ku-ring-gai with both DAs and CDC ( this is the main area we build in). DA's are taking 12-18months and CDC's we have been doing… 1 3160 1 2976 Hi All, see above image. The required setback from the rear boundary in my case is 5m, as you can see the shape of the site and location of the boundary is slightly… 0 8451 |