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    September 14, 2011 - 7:14 am

    Thanks for the help guys.

    The slope doesn’t concern my greatly, it’s 1m over a 40m deep site and as I said I’m not planning on actually undertaking the construction. However if i was, taking care of that height difference with a small retaining wall between properties, with sufficient drainage around the wall, doesn’t pose a huge problem in my opinion. Obviously convincing potential buyers of that is another matter.

    This precedence thing has me worried though….is this something the council are likely to give advice on before I purchase the property? Or are they generally hesitant about giving out advice outside the strict planning process?

    Thanks for the advice christian, there seems to be plenty of margin in the numbers at the moment, but obviously with a small project it doesn’t take much for that to get eaten away at.

    Thanks again for your help guys.

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    September 13, 2011 - 5:16 am

    I believe they will, there is a heritage overlay on the land, however the existing house is a 1960’s build and not of heritage significance.

    There’s also 2 developments in the same street (under the same heritage overlay) that have both done the same thing, there is a ROW at the rear and they have set 2 townhouses at the front and 2 facing the rear.

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