Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 8Aug 09, 2009 1:01 am Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 10Aug 10, 2009 2:29 am Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 12Aug 11, 2009 10:05 pm Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 15Aug 12, 2009 1:42 am Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 16Aug 12, 2009 1:51 am Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 17Aug 12, 2009 10:00 am tc2000 I'm sure in the long run you'll be glad you went to the effort. We are building in Oakleigh. Approx 8 weeks to go so we're getting excited. Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 18Aug 12, 2009 12:01 pm Hi mudmap, Congrats too on being on the final stretch! As I said to jspitz, you'll have the joy of being in your new home this summer ! Well, I don't regret the tears and stress involved for the dispensation application..it was worth the countless trips to Town & Planning definitely! My next battle is with DFH to complain about their pricing for our house design. We signed for a modified design of what is now an extinct design which came up more expensive than the new design recently released (just after we signed our contract!). Our design is actually the same as the new released design. The worst is having been told early this year the cost of the proposed sale price of the now new design which has gone down by $8-10k - which makes our design overpriced. The display options we got are also now part of the standard inclusions which came into effect on 20 July 2009 - the day we signed but we were not told of this....SIGH Am about to send off a letter of concern (a nicer word than complaint) to DFH.....I can only try! Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 19Aug 12, 2009 8:32 pm Hi tc2000, your floor plan looks great-I like the big open living area at the back, the huge walk in pantry and the stairs being at the side like our house. The facade is really nice and contemporary too. That's annoying about the pricing going down on your house-with M the prices only go up!!!! Our house is at least 20K more expensive now than when we signed up and I think we got mostly better inclusions. But they get you no matter what you do. We copped an extra $6500 from our preliminary contract to our final contract because they suddenly decided we needed screw piles (I fought it with high up people at M but got nowhere) and copped $3500 as they couldn't get on site within 5 months of us signing our initial deposit as we had the demo to do. You get a great base price for the size of the house but they certainly get their cream in site costs and hugely inflated upgrades. I will look out for your blog-look forward to seeing it transform! Re: Dispensation for setback - Monash City, Victoria 20Aug 12, 2009 11:19 pm Hi jspitz, Thx for your reply...after shopping around, we decided that most floorplans actually looked the same barring the different facades. I think Porter Davis started this design and have actually successfully won law suits against their competitors. Last I heard, law suits against M*tr*con and DFH were also pending! Apparently, PD have a copyright for dining off kitchen, family area, rear rumpus room and alfresco from dining area.... Since our house design is narrower (at least by almost 0.5-1m compared to your design and PD's Cremorne 42), our downstairs and upstairs living area is much smaller too. But the bigger bedrooms and the WIRs makeup for this deficit For our house design, we decided to go for the Classic facade. It's not as eye catching as the Resort or Modern facade admittedly...we felt the classic was more in keeping with our neighbourhood. Yes, I will keep you posted with pics and stuff when the time comes to start..... Building thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22917 27.07.09 Contract signed. 08.09.09 Site scraped. 18.09.09 Slab completed! 23.11.09 Bricking done 09.03.10 - Tiling 15.04.10 PCI 01.05.10 Handover 3 1229 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 8574 This was on google. Development controls 2.3.1 Front setback D1 New buildings within residential areas shall adhere to a front building line, which is 5.5-6m to the… 1 3736 |