Hey all,
Hoping someone might be able to give me a heads up on a few issues with a site that I've found. The block is 810m2 on two lots, but is a widow block so will have to be reconfigured anyway. Once the reconfiguration is complete, there is then a problem with a sewer main down running down the length of one block. We have just seen the council about it and I think I may have been given some bad advice, and would like a second opinion.
The existing house is 7.9m wide, so im hoping to slide it to one side on the outer boundary leaving the minimum 1.5 metres to the inside boundary. The neighbours house is about 3 metres away. The liason officer I spoke to said that you cannot do this to an outside boundary, but it is like that all around the streets near this block.
If this isnt possible, I would place it on the inside boundary and leave the 1.5m width on the outside. But for some reason, the council lady said that the only way I can do this is if I submit plans to build on the other block at the same time, which makes no sense to me and isnt like that in the code. I believe she is talking about having reduced setbacks between two houses, which isnt the plan.
Also, there is a sewer connection to the neighbours house running through one block, and a sewer main running through the other. Has anyone had any experience in the process of building over sewers, or in moving them and associated costs. The due diligence i have done makes this look like it might be too hard as a first project, but i am more than willing to try and bite off more than i can chew.
Hoping someone might be able to give me a heads up on a few issues with a site that I've found. The block is 810m2 on two lots, but is a widow block so will have to be reconfigured anyway. Once the reconfiguration is complete, there is then a problem with a sewer main down running down the length of one block. We have just seen the council about it and I think I may have been given some bad advice, and would like a second opinion.
The existing house is 7.9m wide, so im hoping to slide it to one side on the outer boundary leaving the minimum 1.5 metres to the inside boundary. The neighbours house is about 3 metres away. The liason officer I spoke to said that you cannot do this to an outside boundary, but it is like that all around the streets near this block.
If this isnt possible, I would place it on the inside boundary and leave the 1.5m width on the outside. But for some reason, the council lady said that the only way I can do this is if I submit plans to build on the other block at the same time, which makes no sense to me and isnt like that in the code. I believe she is talking about having reduced setbacks between two houses, which isnt the plan.
Also, there is a sewer connection to the neighbours house running through one block, and a sewer main running through the other. Has anyone had any experience in the process of building over sewers, or in moving them and associated costs. The due diligence i have done makes this look like it might be too hard as a first project, but i am more than willing to try and bite off more than i can chew.