Approved, documented, built.
Real projects with the approvals that made them possible. Concept visualisations elsewhere on this site are always labelled; everything here is the real thing.
Greenwell
A pool is rarely questioned on the idea of a pool. It is questioned on what surrounds it — a significant tree at the front of the property, a sewer line under the yard, and a site too tight to bring machinery through.
View project →Cambridge Park
Converting a garage reads like an internal job. In planning terms it is a new habitable room, and that brings natural light, ventilation, access and the relevant building requirements into scope.
View project →Kurmond
A building's use is a planning fact, not a description. Changing it requires consent even where nothing structural happens, because the assessment is about what the activity does to the surrounding area, not what the walls look like.
View project →Bullaburra
Work built without approval is not beyond fixing. In many cases it can be documented and approved retrospectively — the question is whether what already exists can be shown to satisfy the controls that apply to it.
View project →Kellyville
A garage becoming a clinic is a change of use, and the assessment follows the activity rather than the building: how clients arrive, where they park, and how the surrounding neighbourhood is affected.
View project →Werrington
Existing commercial premises still need consent to change what happens inside them. The building was already there; the use was not, and the use is what is assessed.
View project →St Mary's
An outbuilding is not habitable simply because it could be. Using it as a studio is a change of use, and consent turns on access, residential amenity and the constraints of the site itself.
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Your property could be next.
Every one of these projects started the same way: understanding what the property could support. Start there.