Red Pegs and Waiting

We visited our block today only to notice that we have four more pegs. They are all within the boundary of our block and all have 3m o/s to int'n. Does any one know what they are for? My guess was that its where they are excavating/filling for the house. See photos below for a better idea of what I am talking about.

Our plans are currently going through the phase of being looked at and hopefully approved by Sydney Water and we are waiting for council to issue the Construction Certificate.

NW Corner Peg

NE Corner Peg

SW Corner Peg

SE Corner Peg

We have the first Approval!!

We have been hanging on the council website and also the regular updates from Wisdom about our DA. The first part of it has been Consent Approved, hopefully without conditions. We now wait for the other services ie. Sydney Water and then we wait for the Construction Certificate to be issued.

We have also been trying to get all the loose ends and final touches done to everything now so (hopefully) nothing pops up during the build. Wisdom are probably sick of me now as I have been in contact with them at least three times a week over the last 3-4 weeks. Thankfully we are nearly there.

DA Update

We have been advised that we now have a DA Number and a street number. We now play the waiting game.

Good News!

Received a phone call from Wisdom saying that there will not have to be any changes to our plans YAY!! (as previously mentioned in our post about Plans being lodged with council take 2.
The architects picked up a simple mistake in the calculations shown on the drawings. We actually don't know what landscape percentage we are at, at the moment but at least we are over 50% and the plans have been returned to council (with bushfire assessment attached) to keep things moving forward.

Plans being lodged with council Take 2!!

Our plans were lodged with council in the weeks leading up to Christmas. So in the first few days after the holiday's when Wisdom returned to business we were expecting to receive a DA number. This did not happen. Wisdom informed us that the plans had not been processed but sent back.
Penrith City Council has a requirement that there must be a minimum of 50% Landscaped area on the development. We came in at 47%!!

This was quite frustrating and came as a surprise as to us it looks like a few of the houses already built in our estate appear to have less than 50%.
This means our plans have gone back to the drawing board and Wisdom is working out a way to loose the equivalent of approx 1 brick in length (or less) from the house to meet this requirement, without making it a noticeable change to the house itself.

Another thing which I knew about but completely overlooked was that our block is on bushfire prone land. We were required to submit a Bushfire Assessment Report with our plans detailing the Bushfire Attack Level on the house. Thankfully this came in at 0-12.5 which is the lowest and should mean no extra changes to the plans or design of the house.

Hopefully this time we can comeback with good news and a DA number.

Waiting

We are currently waiting for the Land to settle. The plans are currently with council for registration/approval. This process is supposed to take 10 days. We are currently at 25 days.

The other thing we are waiting on is the final drawings of our home. Exciting times!!

Oct 2010 Land Update

We have received a letter from the conveyancer saying our subdivision has been lodged with council and is currently in the process of being registered. Hopefully this doesnt take too long This is an exciting time!!