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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...