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Entries Tagged as 'Council'

Building Permit has been Approved!

February 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I just got an e-mail from the Townsville City Council and I called them on the phone to confirm it, but we have been given approval for all of our plans! So that is very exciting news given that some people told us it would take up to three months for approval to be [...]

Tags: Contractors · Council · House Lifting · Planning

This Time It’s 8cm Too Small for a Deck

February 8th, 2006 · No Comments

In one of my previous posts, 4cm Too Small for a Bathroom, I wrote about how we had to get rid of our built in wardrobe in the master bedroom and put the family bathroom there instead because there was not enough room under the stairs for a bathroom, by 4cm.
Well this time we found [...]

Tags: Council · House Lifting · Planning

Plans in to Council

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

With the help of the contractor doing the house lifting we have now submitted our preliminary plans to the Townsville City Council for the raise, restump and building in of our house.
Our plans actually have to go through Town Planning despite us pulling our garage under the original roof line, as I wrote about in [...]

Tags: Council · Planning

Renovation Planning Hitch

November 10th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I just got off the phone with the house lifting people today and the plan that I had drawn up for under our house has to go through some pretty major revisions.
In the original plan I had pushed the lower level out by about a metre to accommodate a slightly larger garage. Well it [...]

Tags: Council · House Lifting · Planning