Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Neighbour “reno” knocked down - now a Newbuild? 7Aug 20, 2018 12:09 pm brokenstick I am doing a knockdown rebuild. The old house setback was further forward that allowed under existing guidelines. I was told the the location of the old house was irrelevant - I had to follow the current guidelines for the new house. i couldn't just build where the old house was. I put in a submission to get approval for reduced setback to build in the same place. But maybe it varies by council?? I was told similar - keep the old house front wall as knocking it down means we’d have to go with new regs. Re: Neighbour “reno” knocked down - now a Newbuild? 8Aug 20, 2018 2:34 pm I tried the nice neighbour thing when they put in their initial DA! Explained the impact on us, asked them to consider amending - they just ignored us, so got us nowhere. Ok looks like there is consensus, many thanks guys for your help Re: Neighbour “reno” knocked down - now a Newbuild? 9Aug 20, 2018 9:38 pm Great you were able to get onto council quickly. Hope you can make time to act quickly before too much work progresses. Work can be halted by relevant authorities while reviews take place. Don’t prioritize being nice neighbor. Your neighbor was within planning regs with initial design. He’s played the game by ‘keeping walls’ on initial plans and now using engineering as ‘need’ to completely knock down. If he’s demolished the walls he has likely invalidated. You are just using the current planning regs to have plans reviewed. Overshadowing your yard will also have an impact on your property. You are doing nothing wrong. The planning rules exist for a reason. - aesthetics - impact on neighbors etc Your ‘neighbor’ may also be developing to sell. Good luck. 9 24789 This is one of the reasons I decided to go overseas for my double glazed windows. As the builder indicated, he's worked on many upmarket builds, these were the most well… 13 19229 2 15462 |