Some good news

Met with the SC yesterday and he was excellent. He was speechless when I advised that the SM had told me that we might have to part ways if I was unprepared to seek an application for non-compliance.

But the SC pulled out his folder and went through the plans looking for an alternative design as apparently HO has indicated they do not want to change rooflines to accommodate changes to layout of a design, OMG!

Prior to the meeting I went and spoke with other builders at Kellyville who all said they were involved in current applications where, due to various Council's strict environmental requirements, they had been providing clients changes to layouts that involved moving rooms about thereby not affecting the overall size simply the layout. A nice one I saw at Beechwood relocated the rumpus to the very rear of the house inserting another hallway from the eating area past the last bedroom to the backyard, lending itself to a great area to watch TV undisturbed and have a passive lookout to the backyard.

But it looks like now I won't be building the Apollo but instead the Concerto, a smaller house to start with but fits in the building envelope with some small losses in the length added to the width. The Concerto has an irregular L shape but overall we end up with no fewer rooms but under the 225 sqm building maximum. Fingers crossed plans will be ready in the next week and back to Council.