Browse Forums Building A New House Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 54Sep 11, 2010 6:31 am Welcome to the Estate laj83 I also bought in stage 2, went to the Estate yesterday and noticed another block has been cut ready to start. This block appears to be a split level home with a 1500mm cut at the deepest. Now that doesn't fall into line with the council 500mm Retaining wall heights that they are telling everyone else does it. My block requires an 800mm cut at the most and they are telling me that it is too excessive, some double standards somewhere along the lines i think, although I have not spoken to anyone from Council for over a week, will do that on Monday morning.Cheers Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 55Sep 16, 2010 9:32 pm Hello to all I have been following this blog for a little while now as me and my family are also building in this estate. Our application is in council at the moment and I am just awaiting our letter of rejection and the request for a split level home. With any luck we will get straight through but I doubt it. Our block is relatively level (from highest to lowest point I think it is only 1.3mt difference) so we will see what the council thinks. So far that I have seen only one house has been approved (apart from the two story number) that is not split level, 9 Tischendorf Rd has just been approved as a standard dwelling so I am curious to see what the levels are like on that lot. For any of you who want a closer look at the criteria the council are working with to determine split level etc here is a link to the guidelines: [url]http://www.planning.sa.gov.au/edp/pdf/MAR.PDF[url] I have read most of the relevant pages in this document and as I can understand it there is actually no definitive answer on height of retaining walls. It would seem that their main concern is to keep with the natural flow of the land and MINIMISE excavation and the need for retaining walls (I dont remember seeing any mention of maximum heights allowable). In another section it also makes reference to your roof lines complimenting the natural flow of the land, so perhaps a sloping pitched roof design could be an alternative on the right allotment? Any how I hope some of you may have found this useful and good luck to those with a split level request I hope a reasonable price V.O comes your way. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 56Sep 18, 2010 7:48 pm Hi guys, well I have taken my custom plan (which has the option for 2-3 splits) to a few builders today - format, homestead and rendition. They seem to be fairly knowledgable of split level homes. One builder,who I will not name, was really not helpful (just coz split levels are not their usual thing, not coz they were rude, infact they were very apologetic) and reccomended another company I'm also going back to see Oakford tomorrow and Rossdale at Blackwood park as they deal with lots of split level homes. So now I just have to wait 2 weeks or so for more of an idea on price but I dare say I am going to be stretching it to make my budget This whole split level thing is proving very expensive. My fingers are crossed for some good news. I hope everyone else is starting to make some progress. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 57Sep 22, 2010 4:20 pm Hi all, Unfortunately my partner and I were the ones's who lost the block on Tischendorf Street from stage 1 in July. Finance was approved, house colours and tiles all picked out, landscaping organized, but last minute the council wouldn't approve our plans either. As our finance required the plans to be approved, we quickly lodged more with split levels and all retaining walls less than a meter and denied again! Even after all of the sellers delays, we were a bit disheartened when they wouldn't give us even a few more weeks back in July to fix the plans or change our finance to just a land loan, and to hear that some peoples settlement is in December...ouch! We paid an engineer for footing reports, and the builders told us which block we needed to fit the house we wanted, and after all that we got nothing We still had to pay the builders a ridiculous amount of money. I just think maybe it would have been nice to mention in the encumbrances the issues with cutting and filling blocks, retaining walls, and need for split levels as the engineers and builders were pretty shocked we were denied mutilple times. Good luck to you all though....I'm a little jealous that we missed out on any land, despite being one of the first to get in. Such is life Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 58Sep 22, 2010 4:26 pm miss_m Hi all, Unfortunately my partner and I were the ones's who lost the block on Tischendorf Street from stage 1 in July. Finance was approved, house colours and tiles all picked out, landscaping organized, but last minute the council wouldn't approve our plans either. As our finance required the plans to be approved, we quickly lodged more with split levels and all retaining walls less than a meter and denied again! Even after all of the sellers delays, we were a bit disheartened when they wouldn't give us even a few more weeks back in July to fix the plans or change our finance to just a land loan, and to hear that some peoples settlement is in December...ouch! Not sure I understand.. how did not having a house plan approved mean you lost the finance and the land? Who was the Bank? We bought our land entirely seperate to building the house, that's another painful mortgage all of it's own Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 59Sep 22, 2010 4:37 pm Hi Miss_M Our block was a fallen over finance scoup. But not from Stage 1. Ours was a block on Tischendorf from Stage 2. The block from stage one was the 719sqm block? Thats very unfortunate for you. The banks are being a pain in the butt at the moment. We have felt it, having to take drastically less for our house (we had to sell) so we could get approval for the build. The bank wouldn't loan purely on our house equity. Which wasnt fun either. Re: [SA] Building in Field River Estate, Trott Park 60Sep 22, 2010 7:31 pm Hey. Yeah, it was the 719sqm block. We paid a broker who said to go with Homestart...and it was a construction loan, not a land loan so without the approved house plans, we couldn't get the land. We hadn't bought or built a house before so we made sure we had alot of people involved to make sure things worked out...which they didn't. Knowing what we do now, if we went for a straight land loan, everything would have gone through. A lot of those Covenants are put in place at the time the Developers are still involved and marketing a certain look and they get ignored or expire after a time. If the… 1 2789 |