Browse Forums Building A New House Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 2Oct 23, 2016 4:57 pm Stilettos & Bricks -our Building Journey Blog https://stilettosbricks.com viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85183&hilit=secret+harbour Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 4Oct 23, 2016 6:16 pm Stilettos & Bricks -our Building Journey Blog https://stilettosbricks.com viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85183&hilit=secret+harbour Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 6Oct 29, 2016 6:30 pm Stilettos & Bricks -our Building Journey Blog https://stilettosbricks.com viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85183&hilit=secret+harbour Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 9Dec 21, 2016 11:17 am Actually we've just heard back from the second consultant's report (there are different levels of assessment, the first assessment was a basic desktop survey that was extremely conservative)... Thank goodness its been assessed as BAL29, which means we can move forward. We only received the updated pre-start variation estimates yesterday though (I think they put our project on hold until the BAL was confirmed), so we'll confirm those changes this week. Thanks for asking Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 10Dec 21, 2016 11:36 am Wow thats great to hear We got an "unexpected" BAL rating too of 12.5 (we should have expected it though). I think our timeline isnt far from yours, here's hoping for a smooth and quick start in 2017! Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 11Jan 31, 2017 10:33 pm More delays... need to adjust the size of the store as the way it sits on the block means the front wall of the store is 500mm too close to the boundary so needs shifting back. According to council. I don't know why its not counted as part of the garage which has different rules??! Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 13Jan 31, 2017 11:27 pm Sorry to hear about the delays! We've just had our plans submitted to council (Town of Vic Park), and I must say I am a little nervous as to whether we'll get approval. We are (very mildly) non-compliant in a couple of areas. How have you found Summit so far? I'm pretty happy, but my planning related discussions with them have never really filled me with a great deal of confidence. Hopefully, it's just my nerves and I will be shown to have had nothing to worry about. Love your plan, by the way -- it's a really thoughtfully laid-out design. Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 14Feb 01, 2017 12:15 am Hi MJB, we knew from early on it would have BAL requirements and BAL29 was assumed for the prelim estimate. Its approx $10k on top for our house, but we already had steel roof beams and Colour bond roofing included. Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 15Feb 01, 2017 12:23 am echo_base Sorry to hear about the delays! We've just had our plans submitted to council (Town of Vic Park), and I must say I am a little nervous as to whether we'll get approval. We are (very mildly) non-compliant in a couple of areas. How have you found Summit so far? I'm pretty happy, but my planning related discussions with them have never really filled me with a great deal of confidence. Hopefully, it's just my nerves and I will be shown to have had nothing to worry about. Love your plan, by the way -- it's a really thoughtfully laid-out design. Good luck with your plans! We're pretty happy with Summit, though thimgs seem to take forever with quoting and drafting so I feel like they could use more resources to speed things up. Also they seem to work sequentially not in parallel. This may just be that I am impatient tho LOL!! We've not encountered or expected much in the way of planning issues so no real comment there... our house shouldnt vbe controversial. This is the first planning issue to come up.... Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 17Feb 05, 2017 2:48 am Hi spiffmiff, the house plans look great. All the best for your build Follow our build with Express Two Storey (Ventura Group): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85122 Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 18Feb 05, 2017 8:57 am I absolutely love your floor plan, how big is it? Following along GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 19Mar 01, 2017 3:51 am jpmontoya It comes down to the sales person you are dealing with, we built with them and found them very efficient Unfortunately I think you're right. Turns out a colleague of hubby had the same consultant and similar issues. Good news is her actual build apparently went very well Re: New Home - Summit Homes 'The Orchard' - Perth SOR 20Mar 01, 2017 3:52 am mrsdoe Hi spiffmiff, the house plans look great. All the best for your build Thanks!! Hi there! 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