Recent content by CharlieT

Basso, finished house will be about 800mm above street level and we'll have a 900mm sand pad. It looks like there is an old connection to the street drainage at the front of the property. I think we'll have to upgrade our footings to include pilings. Would be much simpler to connect to the...

Thanks for the additional responses. Rainwater tanks are quite uncommon in WA, and there's not too many places for one on the property. The idea of releasing water over time sounds reasonable. I'm not sure what level of conversation our builder has had with council but it's sounding like we...

Thanks Westminster. Our design only permits the use of the future common driveway and the front of our property. The councils condition suggests that the soak wells be placed at a distance equal to the depth of the soak well away from the house and any boundary. Given we've only left with a...

Hi all, We're building our PPOR on a clay site in Perth's eastern suburbs. We've received conditional building approval from our council subject to the on site retention of stormwater. Our builder had assumed that we could dispose of our storm water via the council drains. We've been...

what's the zoning on the property Tulamalula? If that's sold in 2 days @490k, I wonder what a 1000sqm R25 block would sell for. Or two 500sqm blocks.

A 1000sqm block in Devon Road (basically the intersection with Briggs St.) sold for $550k in July. It's zoned R10 though. 1000sqm in Anstey Road with house recently sold for $660k (R20).

Case in point - us.

The silly thing about these 'clay issues' is that every house in Melbourne is probably built on a 'worse' site. WA builders (and i guess their customers) only build double brick, and those that offer framed homes typically charge a small fortune for the 'privilege'. I'm convinced there's a...

95% sure it would be clay causing the cracking. We purchased a house not far from this one about 7 months ago. The cracks we had are small in comparison, and we're in the process of demolishing the house. We always had planned to demolish, so never went down the path of estimating the costs of...

Tula, it's amazing that by your account there are numerous problems with IGA yet you apparently continue to visit the store to see yet more problems. I've never had a problem with this store either. Your comments strike me that you're trying to put people off investing in the area. Every area...

Way to talk up the area and improve the value in the area.... We live in Baysie and have shopped at Coles Maylands weekly for about 7 years..... Never a problem. Seriously undervalued corridor..... Close to the city, train and lots of exciting development. It's just not quick enough for my liking!

Jerry, we're not in Beckenham. At the moment, we're building a house for us to live in on 1000 sqm whilst building in a way to allow for future subdivision. We are still thinking of developing instead. Spreading those site costs over two properties is a little more palatable.

Jerry, without knowing the size of your build, it's roughly in line with the pricing we've received to build a 330sqm house. In fact your cut and fill sounds cheap. Our total site cost estimate is over 100k. We've priced through two project builder and got fairly similar numbers. Our site...

Just based on my reading of the current town planning strategy/document. From memory they're refining their document after a period of public consultation. It will then have to go to the planning commission for approval. Given the potential amalgamation, it may be an item that isn't pushed...

Fair point Chomp. The clause can work and it can be useful. I'm just advocating being better researched in general before committing to these projects. We didn't even buy the property as an investment (as a PPOR), but look to be heading down this path to split the site costs across two...