Browse Forums Building A New House Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 25Aug 16, 2010 9:46 pm Hi AJA, true, split levels do add cost. Apparently it reduces the cost of retaining walls and footings though. Hi 1stBuildFR - our land just settled on Friday, I'm shocked to hear that your settlement won't happen until December 30th! Our block is one from stage 2, are you from stage 3? We got a letter from council via the builder today - apparently they have some concerns with "private open space" and the height of the floor level. Will speak to the builder tomorrow. Our status on the Marion council website is "1st Additional info planning" and 9 other applications in the development are in this state. Has anyone here just got a letter from council about their application? Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 26Aug 16, 2010 9:51 pm Turin Has anyone here just got a letter from council about their application? All we've had so far is a letter saying 'they have the right to request a bond for potential damage to council property' which I don't like the sound of, at all... Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 27Aug 17, 2010 9:50 am Hi Turin Settlement isnt until December, because we stumbled onto a block from Stage 1, where someones finance fell over. I guess due to them not wanting another fall over they gave us an incredible amount of time to come up with the goods.... so to speak. Its one of the more expensive blocks in the estate, my partner and I were not looking for something so big or expensive. But really wanted to get into this estate, as I feel its going to go up in value a lot quicker than building in the future estate Nottage Rise, purely based on Postcode/Council. So our settlement date is basically them helping us, and covering their own backs. BTW we are building the Salerno from Fairmont homes. Puts us right up to the 35% build allowance. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 28Aug 17, 2010 10:24 am 1stBuildFR BTW we are building the Salerno from Fairmont homes. Puts us right up to the 35% build allowance. I hate the 35% block coverage 'rule' in Marion Council.. According to our Fairmont salesperson, Marion Council will usually turn a blind eye up to 40% block coverage, thankfully, but we've already had to shrink our place from what we wanted and we're still just a smidge over 40%. I think we were at about 40.1% or something like that... Even more silly is that once the house is approved they'll allow verandahs and carports with no issues... Hopefully we'll be fine - there is nothing left on the house we can shrink... Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 29Aug 17, 2010 10:45 am Its totally ridiculous I agree. I am really feeling for the people who bought the 300sqm blocks. I was in initial talkings with an AV Jennings rep about our block, and he said he has a close friend who bought it. Then found that there was not house in existance that would go on the block with 2 bathrooms. Unless she forfeits the garage.carport and adds on a verandah carport afterwards. If your building on a courtyard block, obviously you don't want the open space, hence its existance lol. That being said our back yard is going to be 400sqm, so i've told the Misses i don't care you can only use a pool for 2 months of the year, i'm getting one Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 30Aug 28, 2010 10:38 pm Hello fellow neighbours, we too have recently bought a block in Field River Estate and have signed up with Fairmont. I'm really excited about building for the first time but we have already reached our first speed bump. Our block is one of the flattest in the estate but we have just received word that council won't approve our plan and wants us to put a split level home in. The retaining wall that was proposed was 700mm and a little birdie told me they aren't approving anything over 500mm. Anyone else come across this problem? Look forward to hearing about everyone's build. Ps. Have you seen there is finally some action in the estate. Trenches have been dug ready for a Rossdale house to begin. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 31Aug 28, 2010 10:56 pm Rosie44 Hello fellow neighbours, we too have recently bought a block in Field River Estate and have signed up with Fairmont. I'm really excited about building for the first time but we have already reached our first speed bump. Our block is one of the flattest in the estate but we have just received word that council won't approve our plan and wants us to put a split level home in. The retaining wall that was proposed was 700mm and a little birdie told me they aren't approving anything over 500mm. Anyone else come across this problem? Look forward to hearing about everyone's build. Ps. Have you seen there is finally some action in the estate. Trenches have been dug ready for a Rossdale house to begin. Not on ours yet, we have the garage dropped down so hopefully we'll be OK.. Our block is reasonably flat as well, but you never know with councils half the time. I did see that Rossdale place being prepared last week actually, will be interesting to see how the build speed compares to all the Fairmont places being built. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 32Aug 30, 2010 1:26 pm yeah same issues here. I am on the down hill slop of Tischendorf, and they made it that our driveways were on the high side of the block. So we can't drop them like Vortex did. We have already submitted semi split level. And apparent the marion council isnt happy with it. They want more changes. Our block has a 3m diagonal fall slope over 45m. They are taking about making our house drop twice now. Split from front to back half, and then split level drop again out our back door to alfresco area. So much for making this our retirement house. Its getting complicated. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 33Aug 30, 2010 7:55 pm They really are making things difficult aren't they. I don't understand how they can make these rules/decisions without any warning. Shouldn't we have receved something in writing when buying the block so we knew about this before signing contracts and putting down deposits. Sorry to hear about your difficulties 1stBuildFR. And fingers crossed for you Vortex that everything comes back ok. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 34Aug 30, 2010 8:27 pm Rosie44 They really are making things difficult aren't they. I don't understand how they can make these rules/decisions without any warning. Shouldn't we have receved something in writing when buying the block so we knew about this before signing contracts and putting down deposits. Sorry to hear about your difficulties 1stBuildFR. And fingers crossed for you Vortex that everything comes back ok. This ain't hard Have a read of the encumbrance documetation for Lights View sometime - I've heard some people with 2 story places are having to spend up to and including $100k on top of the base house price just to meet the encumbrance requirements. We have it pretty easy Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 35Aug 31, 2010 11:16 am your absolutely right Vortex. To take it even further though. If building was easy and complication free. Wouldnt everybody be doing it??? My in-laws have bought a town house off the plans in Seaford Meadows. And they arn't even aloud to choose their carpet color. Or lighting or tiles. They didn't relise this before they signed the contract. So that would be like walking into a house blind folded and asked whether you liked the color scheme? lol. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 36Sep 01, 2010 4:31 pm Maybe Rossdale were the company to deal with. That Block in the estate has slab layed and timber frame already arriving to the block..... WOW!!! Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 37Sep 01, 2010 4:39 pm 1stBuildFR Maybe Rossdale were the company to deal with. That Block in the estate has slab layed and timber frame already arriving to the block..... WOW!!! They would have had to have the plans in at the council prior to settlement to be this far along, surely.. Unless Rossdale simply don't have that much on at the moment? We bought our block relatively late and I assumed we would be miles behind most of the people in the estate, but I guess that's not the case afterall Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 38Sep 01, 2010 4:56 pm Nothing wrong with being late. At least you got someone to split the fence costs with....pity they're brown though. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 39Sep 02, 2010 2:16 pm For anyone building in the estate who may have been concerned about phone lines and ADSL access, I have had a contact inside Telstra confirm that - at least for our place - we have full copper to the exchange, no pairgains, no rims - nothing bad in the way So, I would assume the entire estate would be wired up the same, and with the Reynella Exchange just over the otherside of the Young Street bridge means we should all get some fairly decent ADSL speeds Obviously the cable length will have an impact (and it's unlikely to go over the young st bridge) but I was relieved to find no rim/pairgain on our line (Myself and the Mrs are geeks and we both work in IT, internet access speed was a fairly-major concern for us!) Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 40Sep 02, 2010 4:43 pm vortex_ For anyone building in the estate who may have been concerned about phone lines and ADSL access, I have had a contact inside Telstra confirm that - at least for our place - we have full copper to the exchange, no pairgains, no rims - nothing bad in the way So, I would assume the entire estate would be wired up the same, and with the Reynella Exchange just over the otherside of the Young Street bridge means we should all get some fairly decent ADSL speeds Obviously the cable length will have an impact (and it's unlikely to go over the young st bridge) but I was relieved to find no rim/pairgain on our line (Myself and the Mrs are geeks and we both work in IT, internet access speed was a fairly-major concern for us!) awesome news about not being Rimmed or PGS.. 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