Looking at a place and wondering if you can extend, add a granny flat or knock down and rebuild? Send me the address and I'll read the council records for it. You get the zoning, the likely approval route and the first red flags to check before you exchange, written by me and back within two business days.
Order the Snapshot$49Not sure it's the right fit? Email meg@camden-lane.com or call 0498 827 103.
The zone, height, floor space and minimum lot size, and what they mean for what you're thinking of doing.
Whether the work could go through as exempt or complying development (a CDC, through a private certifier) or needs a development application with council.
Flood, bushfire, heritage, trees and anything else mapped on the site that could change the plan or the price.
The Section 10.7 certificate items and questions worth asking before you exchange.
Pay online and give me the address and what you're thinking of doing with it.
I check the mapped controls, overlays and planning records for that address.
You get it by email within two business days.
If the Snapshot shows something worth digging into, the full Site and Pathway Review ($700, 8 to 10 pages) tests your plan against every control and what's happening around the site. The $49 comes off the fee.
A buyer in Penrith was about to commit to a block for a knockdown rebuild. The review found the site inside a flood planning area that put the floor level, the design and the approval route somewhere very different from what they'd priced. They found out before exchange rather than after, which is the whole point.
Camden Lane is a Sydney development advisory practice run by Meg Bond. The practice reads sites, tests what they can carry, and manages approvals through to construction for buyers, builders, architects and developers across NSW.
Meg's background is in development management on residential, commercial and precinct projects in Australia and the United States, from feasibility and approvals through to delivery. The review is written the way she'd read a site before putting her own money into it.