3 townhouse costs in Melbourne

Hi,
After two years, I have finally had council approve three townhouses.
It took this long because there are some trees that needed to be protected and they weren’t happy with any proposal until recently. Anyhow it took long but it is done now.

I want to know what it will cost to build these three townhouses, but am told I need to first spend nearly 18k for engineering and town planning?

Ideally, I want to know the rough estimate of costs BEFORE I spend that money as if it is beyond my means, I will sell with plans, rather than build.

Is there a way to roughly estimate costs of building 3 townhoues?
2 are double storey, 1 is single storey.
Sizes are roughly 25sq and 21sq for the doubles and 19sq for the single.
The land is 1400sqm and is on a 2m slope from back to front.
The property has an old house that needs to be demolished.
It also has a swimming pool that needs to be filled.
There are quite a number of trees that must be removed.

My question is –
1. is there a way to get my ‘turnkey’ building company (they have helped me get across the line with council) to give me a price estimate without me having to spend first to get the engineering and other reports?
2. based on the above info, can anyone with recent experience give me a cost I can expect?

Thank you
Su

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