No progress at this stage

After being told last Thursday by the SM that the plans had gone to Council and that we will need to arrange a face-to-face with Council to put in the application for non-compliance, to which I replied that we had met with SC on Tuesday and picked an alternate design so that had moved very quickly to have that in with Council already AND that the reason we compromised on an alternate design was because I DO NOT HAVE TIME NOR INCLINATION TO PUT IN AN APPLICATION FOR NON-COMPLIANCE, so could he check what plans went in and rectify this if they were the Apollo and not the Concerto.

He called me back saying he had advised Council to ignore the Apollo plans inadvertently (???) resubmitted and that he had advised Council that we were submitting a new plan under the application therefore to ignore the one on its way (yes I know if I could exit without losing time and money I would but que sera).

I spoke to SC over the weekend and yes he was aware of the issue but had dealt with it on Friday so now the drafting team is working on new plans, but lucky me, I get free carpet and tiles to the living areas. Now waiting on plans and new tender, then get to revise colours.

So today where are we at? No further progress, still with drafting. Fingers crossed, will be ready for this weekend.

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.