We are building VANCOUVER 33 with PORTER DAVIS

Hey Suzane! Great to hear that you're building the Vancouver, its an awesome home!

I believe the process has changed since.. We had our selections first, then tender and contract signing..

Don't be nervous, try to visit WOS as much as you can before tender as this will help you in making your selections etc. I can't really assist with selections as it really depends on what style you're into.. We have gone for french industrial so there will be a lot of blacks, greys, red.

We havent started building yet but you can check our my instagram sgeneroso to get an idea on our plans

Good luck!

Just double checking that picture isn't actually of your home right, pretty sure you're at about the same stage as us ie construction hasn't started? I don't know if it's an option or not but have you got room to move the house back by 720mm? Also it may not be all developers but I'm fairly sure that with our development the portico can extend outside the building envelope so long as it's no more than a certain distance, or are you already beyond that?

We're having to make our portico bigger as well so I'll have to check with PD that they're not making those errors with our house when they do it!

If you go for either option 2 or 3 you will probably need to get new plans/engineering done is my understanding, we are in the process of changing our facade and have had to get new engineering and plans done up which two weeks later we are still waiting to hear about. Either of these would also need new energy ratings to be done as well, and you'd have to hope that PD will pick up the cost for all of that given it sounds like it is their error.

Going for option 1 probably makes the most sense but I'd be doubtful that PD will be actively working on option 3 for you at the same time as it would require getting all the work done which would cost them money and time they could be using on other houses. Have you tried calling your council to find out what the process looks like and your likelihood of success?

Edit: Just looking at the guidelines for my development, porches and verandahs to a maximum height of 4m may encroach into the specified front street setback distances by no more than 1000mm. Just in case you and PD haven't checked this I'd be having a look at the guidelines for your place to potentially prevent having to worry about all of the above!

I was pretty sure you weren't anywhere near having a finished house so the photo threw me a bit! Did you end up having a look at the new Vancouver in Armstrong Creek?

Good luck with it all, hopefully the council comes back fairly quickly and says that it's doable for you in which case it's presumably a fairly simple process although as per usual it pushed back the timeline a bit.

We have an issue where the developer doesn't like our facade so we have had to change it, PD are redoing the plans/engineering/energy etc at the moment. It was supposed to be done by middle/end of last week but I still haven't heard anything back from our BC despite emails, phone calls etc. Once that's done we need developer approval and then building surveyor approval, after that we are hopefully on our way to construction.

As you say the delays now are annoying but given we'll hopefully be in the house for 20 years or more so long as the finished product is what we want and it's roughly on time with how long we thought it would take then it's best not to get too wound up about these things.

did you start in July???

We ended up going for the option of applying for a dispensation. We are .6% over the building envelope. PD phoned our council who said it should be approved without issues. Fingers crossed it comes back approved asap..

When we receive approval, then surveyor will need to review again then issue building permit.