Moving forward

Had some progress this week, the revised drawings and variation paperwork finally came through (only took 3 weeks), and on receipt of the drawings we submitted them to the estate management company and received design approval.

Design approval wasn't entirely straightforward, we have an entire book of covenants to comply with and we had a lot of problems with keeping within the boundary setbacks, this wasn't helped by the non rectangular shape of the lot.

In the end we opted to apply for some boundary relaxations, by applying for the front boundary setback of 5m to be relaxed to 4m we were able to fit without infringing the rear boundaries. We felt this application could be justified because the lots to either side of us were corner lots, and as a consequence only had a 3m setback from the same line that we had a 5m setback.... anyway, cut a long story short, we successfully got the relaxation from the estate management, just now have to reapply for the same relaxation from the local council.

Also progressed this week was the tile selection appointment for 4th May and the colour selection appointment for 14th may, we also need to arrange an electrical design appointment.

Also through this week was the variation documentation which took $30K off the quotation price, this removes the solar system, driveway, turf, and fencing from the quotation which I'm sourcing from third parties, solar and driveway alone saved $6K, fencing is provided by the estate management, leaving us a $16K surplus to spend on turf and patio screening.

So next stage is to push forward with council approval, this process can take 4 weeks.

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