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    Cost of converting brick garage to granny flat

    Made a call to the town planners at the council. Looks like I have hit a hurdle, which Blackspider has already mentioned. I don't think there is a 900mm setback from the fence line at the side. The council informed me (and makes sense) under the private certification route, you must comply with...
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    Cost of converting brick garage to granny flat

    Cheers Rockstar, but I am buying the house regardless, so this would just be a bonus. But from reading through the pdf brochure and browsing through the legislation itself, I am not sure the council even gets to be involved. If it complies to the legislation you can get a private certifier to...
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    Cost of converting brick garage to granny flat

    I appreciate my question is a bit vague but have to start somewhere. Thanks for the ballpark figure, that gives me something to go on. And yes, that would be doable for me so looks like I have some work cut out thinking about the best way to do it and getting some quotes. Thanks for the reply.
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    Cost of converting brick garage to granny flat

    Hello all, I have been reading with interest the commentary about the new granny flat laws in NSW. I am in process of buying a house in the Canterbury council area, Sydney. It is on 630m2 and reading through the new granny flat planning laws (or whatever they are called, links were put up...
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