- Submission about neighbour’s greedy house extension
- Dual occupancy proposal for heritage house and garden
- Advice about house extension to improve ocean views
- Advice about “regularisation” of multiple buildings with view to achieving dual occupancy and avoidance of a demolition order
- DA for rural residential property with horses and vexatious neighbours
- Advice on subdivision potential for heritage-listed residence
- 2 applications for just-purchased non-compliant shop (Council has given incomplete advice to new owner)
- Commercial and residential partial redevelopment after highway widening affects the property
- Proposed addition to new industrial premises – seeking approval
- Following advice about potential to expand existing house, forthcoming DA
- Flood-prone site for new professional rural business
- Mixed-use rural and conservation zoned land with lots of constraints, seeking approvals
- Development potential report to assist an injured person return home with support (rural)
- 2 clients: litigious body corporates: provide professional and tactical advice
- 2 clients: waterfront properties breached by the State, prepare applications for approval
- Expatriate couple seek services from pre-purchase onwards for rural residential with horses
- Extend jetty with conservation objectives (and much bigger boat)
- New dwelling on steep constrained conservation property
- Industrial premises approval and additional application
- Pre-purchase report with view to new second dwelling in existing non-habitable building (to be investigated)
- Amendment to commercial operation in RU1 zone, Jilliby – Consent granted
- Advice leading to rectification and “regularisation” of unapproved structures (2 clients)
- Advice on process for unapproved buildings plus proposed building (bush + clearing)
- Master site planning, mixed-zone environmental/rural bushy block
- Rural worker’s dwelling on primary production land
- Post-purchase/ pre-application advice on business (recreation and tourism/ post-Corona virus) on acreage, lower Hunter
- During purchase: advice on highly-constrained large suburban lots (bushfire, flooding, species, large minimum lot size)
- Pre-purchase advice (acreage) to match clients’ objectives (commercial and residential)
- Multi-component rural residence and eco-tourist facility on acres
- Pre-purchase advice for multi-faceted development (retail, residential +)
- Pre-development advice on multi-lot subdivision potential (flood and bushfire prone, suburban)
- Assist with breach notice (business + residential; suburban)
- Serious breaches by unco-operative owner, advice provided
- Waterfront owners with access and neighbour problems
- Incomplete rural mixed-zone subdivision for sale: advice to prospective purchaser (who walked away); then advice to vendors
- Development potential report (subdivision, multiple dwellings etc.), 2 lots, mixed zones, conservation constraints
- Pre-purchase advice on purchase of an acreage for a specific business (recreation + accommodation)
- Acreage rezoning potential: advice in light of postponement of Council changes
- Pre-purchase report regarding commercial use of acreage (multi-purpose)
- Subdivision potential (strata vs Torrens; access; retain existing dwellings) (several clients)
- Advice about permissible but unconventional land uses on acreages (2 clients)
- Advice about resubdividing flood-prone land awkwardly cut by drainage canals
- Advice about another’s unacceptable and unfeasible Development Consent condition; tactics
- Boarding house explorations (several clients)
- Advice before master planning for RMS road-widening-affected property with other constraints
- Advice involving lawyers and Council re claim of unlawfully-issued CDC for dunefront house
- Preliminary advice about structural feasibility of proposed house and pool alterations
- Pre-purchase advice for rural property for proposed tourism and/or materials recycling
- Potential for seniors’ housing (geotechnical, lot too small, other constraints), not exempt from approval
- Affordable housing proposal under NDIS (2 aspects of the proposal: housing development; services for clients)
- Pre-purchase report on large rural R5 zoned land in 3 Titles with unformed Crown Road in another region – development potential including subdivision, tourism, residential, eco-tourist facility
- Waterfront reserve owners with vegetation, heritage and Community Title issues: research, advice and advocacy
- Pre-purchase report on (risky) acreage with multiple unapproved and non-compliant “dwellings” (bushfire, creek, risk of demolition orders and more!)
- Pre-purchase advice on acreage with listed Threatened (flora) Species, creek, ocean views, 2 cottages – development potential?
- Post-purchase advice about acreage with undersize 2 lot subdivision – dwelling entitlement?
- Pre-purchase advice during residential property search – development potential? efficiency of search?
- Post-purchase work for potential multi-lot subdivision on land with an Endangered Ecological Community, major flooding, bushfire and end-of-life house that straddles 2 existing lots
- Pre-purchase report for industrial land with creek, bushfire, extensive (undocumented?) landfill
- Serious long-standing and previously-unknown compliance issue rectified during a sale, with purchaser now able to proceed
- Master site planning, mixed-zone environmental/rural bushy block
- Rural worker’s dwelling on primary production land
- Post-purchase/ pre-application advice on business (recreation and tourism/ post-Corona virus) on acreage, lower Hunter
- Pre-purchase advice on purchase of an acreage for a specific business (recreation + accommodation)
- Pre-purchase report regarding commercial use of acreage (multi-purpose)
- Advice on desired change in approved building envelope to preferred location (bush acreage, steep, severe geotech, erosion and bushfire hazards, access that floods)
- Advice on non-compliant building design, land with bush, geotech and stormwater problems
- DA preparation: secondary dwelling, land with bushfire, endangered ecological community, unretained steep slope
- Advice on rural property for tourism/recreational project
- Investigation into and advice about incomplete subdivision infrastructure yet rating by Council and water authority as if it is was all constructed
- Investigation and report on enclosure of a non-compliant but constructed carport; and dual occupancy potential beneath the existing house
- Investigation and master site planning for subdivision of highly constrained R2 land
- Townhouse development – pre-purchase advice (client bought it)
- Advice on subdivision potential – bushy block with flooding, species and bushfire
- Pre-purchase advice on geotech unstable suburban block, development potential
- Pre-purchase report – dual occupancy potential
- Pre-purchase reports on 2 E-zoned properties – development potential
- Pre-purchase report on dual occupancy potential (large suburban block)
- Second dwelling wanted despite unapproved dwelling, adjacent mostly bushy rural blocks
- Pre-purchase reports (industrial, commercial/rural) (client bought both)
- Advice re rectification of breach on suburban block (unapproved building works, master site planning)
- Completion of 2 lot subdivision process (only 1st of 4 stages complete so far)
- Advice on development potential (suburbia: 2 detached houses)
- Meet investors to make their property search more efficient and targeted