Tag Archive: Blocks
How Adverse Possession Can Affect Buying A Block
Did you know its still possible to take over ownership of someone else’s private land? This makes it important to check the Land Title Plan dimensions against the actual site dimensions of your new house block for the following reasons:…
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Can You Subdivide?
I would advise calling into the Council Planning Department and discussing your block as early as possible. I have always found them very helpful. To be better informed here are 4 things to think about before talking to the planner: State…
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Setbacks
When you are buying a block one of the issues that controls what you can put on a block is the Setbacks of the main structure. Setbacks vary from council to council and can also vary between neighbourhoods in a…
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Building Envelope
If you need to fit a large House onto a small block one of the issues you will have to deal with is ‘The Building Envelope”. What this means is the actual area within your title boundaries that is legally…
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Block Orientation
Sponsored by Coral Homes When looking at block orientation a key issue is using the sun to warm the house in winter and keeping the sun out of the rooms in the summer. Typical blocks in Australia are rectangular. About…
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