Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Overshadowing problems 10Jul 24, 2020 10:01 pm Stewie D You should of had a building designer draw the plans to start with. A lot of builders who buy a Cad program are OK with simple stuff but when it gets a bit more complex they seem to have problems. A draftie or building designer would have been able to come up with everything that the council required from the get go. Drawing the neighbours house for the shadow diagrams is what we have to do when they are required. You just need the external measurements of the side facing you and maybe 3m of each of the front and back of her house. The window sills etc should have been annotated on the contour survey. Once again standard stuff. Stewie Hi stewie Thanks for your input the plan was designed by the building designer unfortunately all these things are happening we are not technical and we are in the position to believe what builder tells us unfortunately I think the shadow diagram what we have produced has not satisfied our neighbour Re: Overshadowing problems 11Jul 25, 2020 7:43 am You have to bear in mind that no matter how many documents you provide by all sorts of qualified people the neighbour might never be satisfied. As long as you have done the drawings as per the councils guidelines then you should have been fine. As for not being technically minded, the requirements for shadow diagrams should be up on their website and are pretty simple. I can post up the diagrams I did for our place for reference if you like. "and the neighbours don’t know what to expect from CAP" By the way, what is CAP??? Stewie Re: Overshadowing problems 14Jul 25, 2020 5:30 pm Me either, I am guessing, sounds like it may be right?? Re: Overshadowing problems 15Jul 31, 2020 11:00 am Stewie D You have to bear in mind that no matter how many documents you provide by all sorts of qualified people the neighbour might never be satisfied. As long as you have done the drawings as per the councils guidelines then you should have been fine. As for not being technically minded, the requirements for shadow diagrams should be up on their website and are pretty simple. I can post up the diagrams I did for our place for reference if you like. "and the neighbours don’t know what to expect from CAP" By the way, what is CAP??? Stewie CAP council Assessment Panel In South Australia if council can’t decide on a plan they move it to CAP which is a 5 member panel they decide about the building approval If they reject the plan supporting neighbours we will have to change the plan that’s what our understanding at present Re: Overshadowing problems 17Aug 25, 2020 12:47 pm I think we have all gone a little off track. The original title is "overshadowing", but the neighbor is not complaining about the shadowing, she's complaining about loss of some view! Victorian regulations DDO14 cover that when building a dwelling that will affect neighbor's views. There should be something similar for all states, this is our one in Geelong, it may give some ideas: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Yes, she may lose "some" view from a single window? Is that the only window with a view? Did she expect the empty land to stay empty forever? That's always the risk of building in an empty estate, you never know what the next neighbor is going to build that may block your views! Our block is built up all around, so we have to consider views, overlooking, overshadowing, street facades, lots of things, to comply with council requirements! I am not based in Victoria however i had a quick look into your question to understand what you were asking. The way I read the regulations, overshadowing relates to the… 1 2241 Hi All, I would appreciate some assistance with issues around overshadowing. We are hoping to build a double storey in Wyndham (Victoria), on a west facing lot, with our… 0 14315 I am not a brick expert, but rendering would be 1 option, it would be costly to do the entire house though.... 2 6683 |