Tag: development
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Review of Plunkett – $4.5k down and 1 year wasted
Following up a comment I posted on productreview, here is the timeline of events when I signed the PPA and paid the $4500 fee; 8th Sep 2012 – Signed PPA, Informed verbally by Sales Rep slab down by Christmas. 18th Sep 2012 – “we also need the landscaping plan done for submission to council, a…
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Triplex Development – Contour Survey
One of the first things you should arrange prior to designing the buildings on the block is a contour survey of the land, a contour survey provides information on the elevation of the land and also situations of sewerage, water and power connections as well as positions of existing fences and trees. Generally, a builder…
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Triplex Development – Zoning
In the last post I introduced my planned triplex development, I skipped over something, why specifically a triplex development? This comes down to zoning, zoning is one part of the general council’s land use Planning Scheme, in simple terms, zoning determines the minimum land size a dwelling must reside on. My land is zoned R20/R40,…
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Triplex Development – Introduction
A few years ago together with the misses, we bought an old house sitting on a decent parcel of land, enough to build three houses when the time came. You can further read about the purchase on our joint blog. Well the time has now come to start developing, as a first time developer and…