Projects

Projects

Built work and approved schemes across Sydney and regional NSW. Filter by what you're planning, or by the council you're dealing with.

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Badagarang · Shoalhaven

Badagarang dual occupancy pair

Dual occupancy · CDC · Approved 2026

Two attached dual occupancies on separate new-estate lots, documented for a builder and approved as complying development — with the estate's own controls and the Low Rise Housing Diversity Code both satisfied.

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Bondi Beach first-floor addition — Alterations & additions, Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach · Waverley

Bondi Beach first-floor addition

Alterations & additions · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

A 221 m² Bondi Beach lot already carrying a house and a rear outbuilding — the extra bedrooms had to go up, behind a front that stays as it is.

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Botany kitchen and dining extension — Alterations & additions, Botany

Botany · Bayside

Botany kitchen and dining extension

Alterations & additions · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

A Botany house that already had three bedrooms, two offices and two rumpus rooms — what it lacked was a kitchen and dining room that work, so that is what the plan changes.

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Bundeena secondary dwelling on piers — Secondary dwelling, Bundeena

Bundeena · Sutherland Shire

Bundeena secondary dwelling on piers

Secondary dwelling · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

A rear-yard granny flat at Bundeena that sits below the flood planning level — so the floor goes up on piers, everything under it is flood-compatible, and the fences let the water through.

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Bundeena · Sutherland Shire

Bundeena secondary dwelling

Secondary dwelling · DA · Lodged 2026

A secondary dwelling on a bush fire prone, heavily treed block inside the Royal National Park — where the bush fire report and the arborist decided as much of the plan as the client did.

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Burraneer as-built certificate — Building information certificate, Burraneer

Burraneer · Sutherland Shire

Burraneer as-built certificate

Building information certificate · BIC · Built 2026

A finished house, pool and deck on an E4 block with part of the work never approved — documented as it stood, element by element, and taken through council as a building information certificate.

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Carss Park waterfront concept — New dwelling, Carss Park

Carss Park · Georges River

Carss Park waterfront concept

New dwelling · DA · Concept 2026

A three-level house on a 594 m² sloping Carss Park block, worked through three concepts to get a garage, a lift and 372 m² of living onto a site that falls away from the street.

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Burraneer C4 house — New dwelling, Burraneer

Burraneer · Sutherland Shire

Burraneer C4 house

New dwelling · DA · Concept 2026

A three-level house on an 872 m² C4 Environmental Living block at Burraneer, worked through nineteen concepts — the floor space sits comfortably under the control and the landscaped area is the number that has to be argued.

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Chatswood conservation area addition — Alterations & additions, Chatswood

Chatswood · Willoughby

Chatswood conservation area addition

Alterations & additions · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

A house in a Chatswood heritage conservation area, extended at the back on one level so the new work sits behind the existing roof ridge and the street front stays as it is.

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Como hillside extension — Alterations & additions, Como

Como · Sutherland Shire

Como hillside extension

Alterations & additions · DA · Approved 2026

A C4 Environmental Living block in Como that drops from the street to the water — bedrooms stay at street level, kitchen and living move a level down onto a new deck over the fall, and a modification stretches the house and deck once the build is under way.

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Coogee · Randwick

Coogee heritage alterations and additions

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2026

Alterations and additions to a heritage-affected house, with rear-lane parking that turned on a swept-path question rather than a drawing one.

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Five Dock first-floor addition and pool — Alterations & additions, Five Dock

Five Dock · Canada Bay

Five Dock first-floor addition and pool

Alterations & additions · CDC · Concept 2026

A Five Dock bungalow taken to two storeys under complying development — a master suite upstairs, a new kitchen and sitting room at the back and a pool, with half the lot still landscaped.

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Gymea Bay bushland house — New dwelling, Gymea Bay

Gymea Bay · Sutherland Shire

Gymea Bay bushland house

New dwelling · DA · Concept 2026

A six-bedroom house on a 4,500 m² C3 bushland block where the footprint has to be argued tree by tree: it steps down the slope on piers, keeps the rock outcrops and takes 8% of the site.

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Illawong split-level addition — Alterations & additions, Illawong

Illawong · Sutherland Shire

Illawong split-level addition

Alterations & additions · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

An Illawong house on a 650 m² lot with a carriageway easement along one side — the new bedrooms and master suite go up in split levels over a new garage, not out into the yard.

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Jannali split-level addition — Alterations & additions, Jannali

Jannali · Sutherland Shire

Jannali split-level addition

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2026

A three-level addition to a house on a 707 m² Jannali block crossed by a drainage easement — the new work steps back off the easement and lands at 0.37:1 against a 0.5:1 control.

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Illawong waterfront house — New dwelling, Illawong

Illawong · Sutherland Shire

Illawong waterfront house

New dwelling · DA · Lodged 2026

A three-level house and a detached studio on a steep 1,062 m² Illawong block falling to the water — the plan is long and thin because the buildable ground is, and an inclinator does the work the site won't.

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Kirrawee upper-level addition — Alterations & additions, Kirrawee

Kirrawee · Sutherland Shire

Kirrawee upper-level addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2026

A new upper level over an existing brick house at Kirrawee, taken through as complying development because the design was kept inside every Housing Code standard rather than argued at a council counter.

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Kurnell foreshore house — Alterations & additions, Kurnell

Kurnell · Sutherland Shire

Kurnell foreshore house

Alterations & additions · DA · Approved 2026

A modification to an approved house on a 1,423 m² C4 Environmental Living block at Kurnell, reworked over thirty-one concepts and still landing at less than half the permitted floor space.

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Leichhardt secondary dwelling — Secondary dwelling, Leichhardt

Leichhardt · Inner West

Leichhardt secondary dwelling

Secondary dwelling · DA · Lodged 2026

A 35 m² studio at the back of a heritage-conservation-area block in Leichhardt, fitted between the pool and the rear boundary without touching the FSR limit.

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Maroubra attic and lower-level addition — Alterations & additions, Maroubra

Maroubra · Randwick

Maroubra attic and lower-level addition

Alterations & additions · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

A Maroubra house given two new levels without a full second storey — a self-contained living level below and two bedrooms in the roof under a dormer.

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Loftus three-level alterations and pool — Alterations & additions, Loftus

Loftus · Sutherland Shire

Loftus three-level alterations and pool

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2026

A 152 m² house on a sloping 665 m² Loftus block, doubled to 306 m² over three levels — with a pool on the low side and landscaped area held just over the 40% minimum.

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Mount Hutton two-storey house — New dwelling, Mount Hutton

Mount Hutton · Lake Macquarie

Mount Hutton two-storey house

New dwelling · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

A new four-bedroom house on a 576 m² bushfire-rated Mount Hutton lot — BAL-29 construction throughout, a double garage on the street and still 60% of the site left as landscaped area.

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Oyster Bay dual occupancy — Dual occupancy, Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay · Sutherland Shire

Oyster Bay dual occupancy

Dual occupancy · DA · Lodged 2026

A second dwelling and a new garage on a 1,107 m² Oyster Bay block that keeps the existing house, and a strata subdivision to separate the two — 0.43:1 against a 0.5:1 control with the landscaped area still over the minimum.

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Randwick rear living pavilion — Alterations & additions, Randwick

Randwick · Randwick

Randwick rear living pavilion

Alterations & additions · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

One half of a strata-titled pair on a sloping Randwick lot — the new kitchen, dining and living room drops to the lower ground at the back, where the garden actually is.

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St Georges Basin waterfront additions — Alterations & additions, St Georges Basin

St Georges Basin · Shoalhaven

St Georges Basin waterfront additions

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2026

A small waterfront cottage at St Georges Basin, extended with an accessible bathroom, a new living wing and sunroom, and a two-bedroom secondary dwelling beside a new garage.

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Sylvania attached dual occupancy — Dual occupancy, Sylvania

Sylvania · Sutherland Shire

Sylvania attached dual occupancy

Dual occupancy · DA · Lodged 2026

A 725 m² R2 block that drops six and a half metres from the street to the rear — two mirrored dwellings that step down the fall in three split levels, each with its own pool at the bottom, so neither half needs a battle-axe handle or a driveway that fights the grade.

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Thirroul coastal home — New dwelling, Thirroul

Thirroul · Wollongong

Thirroul coastal home

New dwelling · DA · Approved 2026

A four-bedroom house on a 392 m² corner block in Thirroul that had to land inside every Wollongong control at once: 195.40 m² against a 196.1 m² GFA cap and 55.42% site coverage against a 55% maximum.

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Wyee Point split-level pair — Dual occupancy, Wyee Point

Wyee Point · Lake Macquarie

Wyee Point split-level pair

Dual occupancy · Pathway to be confirmed · Concept 2026

Two adjoining lots at Wyee Point, 1,117 m² between them, carrying a mirrored pair of four-bedroom homes split over four levels to follow the ground.

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Bellambi secondary dwelling — Secondary dwelling, Bellambi

Bellambi · Wollongong

Bellambi secondary dwelling

Secondary dwelling · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2025

A one-bedroom secondary dwelling drawn at 59.93 m², with 0.07 m² of clearance under the 60 m² ceiling — on a set whose site calculation table is blank, so the cap is the only number the plan can be tested against.

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Caringbah South dual occupancy — Dual occupancy, Caringbah South

Caringbah South · Sutherland Shire

Caringbah South dual occupancy

Dual occupancy · CC · Approved 2025

Two new homes and a two-lot subdivision at Caringbah South where both lots had to clear the 35% landscaped-area minimum independently — they land at 35.12% and 36.42%, inside the control by less than a square metre on the tighter of the two.

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Como garage and pool terrace — Alterations & additions, Como

Como · Sutherland Shire

Como garage and pool terrace

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2025

A long, narrow Como block falling away from the street, where the floor space barely moves — 301.55 m² existing to 305.18 m² proposed against a 340.8 m² cap — and the whole job is what the fall allows: a double garage cut in at street level, a new entry off it, and a pool terrace carved out of the rear.

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Cronulla first-floor addition — Alterations & additions, Cronulla

Cronulla · Sutherland Shire

Cronulla first-floor addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2025

A split-level Cronulla house that needed a fourth bedroom and a second living room without giving up the pool or the yard — a new level over the existing roofline, approved as complying development and modified the same way.

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Dolans Bay wellness pavilion — Alterations & additions, Dolans Bay

Dolans Bay · Sutherland Shire

Dolans Bay wellness pavilion

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2025

A heritage-listed house on a steep Dolans Bay block that falls away from the street to the pool — a gym, sauna and steam room tucked into the slope beneath the house and a new main-bedroom suite upstairs, without touching what the listing protects.

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Kareela first-floor addition — Alterations & additions, Kareela

Kareela · Sutherland Shire

Kareela first-floor addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2025

A 556 m² Kareela block falling away from the street, where a new first floor over an existing 92 m² cottage had to stay under the 290 m² floor-space cap and inside the 8.5 m height without a variation — it lands at 188 m² and 40% landscaped area.

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Kirrawee two-lot subdivision — Subdivision, Kirrawee

Kirrawee · Sutherland Shire

Kirrawee two-lot subdivision

Subdivision · DA · Concept 2025

A 558 m² corner block at Kirrawee already carrying a house and a secondary dwelling, cut into two Torrens lots of 254.82 m² and 303.18 m² — the work is not new building but proving each lot stands on its own, with its own street entry, its own 36 m² of private open space and a right of carriageway over the shared driveway.

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Miranda dual occupancy and subdivision — Dual occupancy, Miranda

Miranda · Sutherland Shire

Miranda dual occupancy and subdivision

Dual occupancy · DA · Approved 2025

A 15 m wide R2 block in Miranda split into two 7.6 m frontages — each dwelling stacked three levels with a basement garage and boat store, a lift, a pool and a rear planter that keeps the upstairs windows private, approved with Torrens subdivision.

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Monterey rear extension — Alterations & additions, Monterey

Monterey · Bayside

Monterey rear extension

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2025

A 367 m² Monterey lot where the floor-space cap scales with lot area — 241 m² allowed, 145 m² proposed — so the control that actually shaped the plan was the 15% landscaped-area minimum on a block already mostly covered by house and garage.

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Randwick three-level addition — Alterations & additions, Randwick

Randwick · Randwick

Randwick three-level addition

Alterations & additions · CC · Approved 2025

A new upper level set back behind the original gable on a 483 m² Randwick block — the street keeps the bungalow it has always had, and the house gains a floor at 0.71:1 where the control says 0.65:1.

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Sylvania shop-top apartment — Commercial, Sylvania

Sylvania · Sutherland Shire

Sylvania shop-top apartment

Commercial · DA · Approved 2025

A single-storey hair salon on a 305 m² main-road lot in the E1 Local Centre zone — a two-bedroom apartment added on top and the salon made accessible, where the zone permits it and the traffic noise and fire separation decide how.

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Yowie Bay terrace pergola — Alterations & additions, Yowie Bay

Yowie Bay · Sutherland Shire

Yowie Bay terrace pergola

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2025

A louvred pergola over an existing rear terrace at Yowie Bay, on a block where landscaped area was already at the line — the scheme clears the 35% minimum by 7 m², so every square metre of new roofed area had to be accounted for.

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Caringbah South rear addition and garage — Alterations & additions, Caringbah South

Caringbah South · Sutherland Shire

Caringbah South rear addition and garage

Alterations & additions · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2024

A 663.9 m² Caringbah South block with a pool already in the back yard and a bungalow sitting a storey above the street — the work keeps the front of the house, cuts a garage in underneath and runs a new living wing out to the pool, with landscaped area finishing at 30.03%.

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Caringbah secondary dwelling — Secondary dwelling, Caringbah

Caringbah · Sutherland Shire

Caringbah secondary dwelling

Secondary dwelling · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2024

A two-bedroom granny flat drawn to exactly 60.00 m² — the cap is the brief, and everything in the plan is there because it fits inside it.

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Como alterations and additions — Alterations & additions, Como

Como · Sutherland Shire

Como alterations and additions

Alterations & additions · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2024

A 586.4 m² corner block at Como with a street frontage on two sides, a drainage line and a sewer across it — the work was rebuilding a split-level house around a long northern living wing while holding 900 mm side and rear setbacks and a 2 m secondary street setback.

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Caringbah South second-floor addition — Alterations & additions, Caringbah South

Caringbah South · Sutherland Shire

Caringbah South second-floor addition

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2024

A 584 m² C4 Environmental Living block where the existing house had no room left at its own level — so the scheme digs a garage and rumpus in under it and puts a new master floor on top, holding FSR at 0.47:1 and lifting landscaped area to 51%.

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Como master suite and garage — Alterations & additions, Como

Como · Sutherland Shire

Como master suite and garage

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2024

A 580 m² Como block with a sewer main and its zone of influence running across the side boundary — the floor-space cap was never the constraint, the clearance to the sewer was, and it set where the new garage and master wing could go.

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Cronulla dual occupancy — Dual occupancy, Cronulla

Cronulla · Sutherland Shire

Cronulla dual occupancy

Dual occupancy · CC · Approved 2024

Two new dwellings and a strata subdivision on a 967 m² Cronulla block that fronts the rail corridor — the acoustic wall along that boundary is what makes the private open space on both lots usable.

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Goulburn · Goulburn Mulwaree

Goulburn industrial units

Industrial · DA · Approved 2024

Three industrial buildings and a three-lot strata subdivision inside a Water NSW catchment — stormwater assessed to Water NSW's concurrence conditions, not just council's.

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Glebe heritage terrace addition — Alterations & additions, Glebe

Glebe · Sydney

Glebe heritage terrace addition

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2024

A locally listed terrace in a listed group on a 196 m² Glebe lot, already 72 m² over its floor space limit before anything is drawn — so the work goes where the street cannot see it and the heritage fabric is left alone.

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Gymea alfresco and pool bathroom — Alterations & additions, Gymea

Gymea · Sutherland Shire

Gymea alfresco and pool bathroom

Alterations & additions · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2024

A 580.6 m² Gymea block where the house, the pool and the pool deck were all already built and none of them could move — so the new alfresco, deck and pool bathroom had to land in what was left of the back yard without pushing the rear setback or the landscaped area any further.

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Engadine sportsground amenities — Alterations & additions, Engadine

Engadine · Sutherland Shire

Engadine sportsground amenities

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2024

A 6.65 hectare RE1 Public Recreation reserve at Engadine where floor space was never the question — a 201.57 m² amenities building on a site that would allow many times that, so the plan is set by two equal change rooms, a public toilet run that stays open when the change rooms are locked, and an accessible path of travel.

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Jaspers Brush pool and pavilion — Alterations & additions, Jaspers Brush

Jaspers Brush · Shoalhaven

Jaspers Brush pool and pavilion

Alterations & additions · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2024

A one-hectare Jaspers Brush holding where floor space was never going to bite — the whole site runs at a floor space ratio of 0.03 — so the work was about making a sheltered outdoor room on a property that had no reason to build tight.

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Iluka secondary dwelling — Secondary dwelling, Iluka

Iluka · Clarence Valley

Iluka secondary dwelling

Secondary dwelling · DA · Lodged 2024

A 506 m² Iluka lot in an E1 Local Centre zone already carrying a shop and a residence, where the floor-space allowance was never the constraint — the 60 m² ceiling on a secondary dwelling was, and the plan lands at 56.79 m² with two bedrooms.

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Miranda alterations and additions — Alterations & additions, Miranda

Miranda · Sutherland Shire

Miranda alterations and additions

Alterations & additions · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2024

A 657.6 m² split-level Miranda block where the living level already sat a storey above the garage — the work was turning a tight, dark plan into a four-bedroom house with a new living wing, while the side walls sit as close as 1.0 m to the boundary and landscaped area comes back at 22.81%.

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Mollymook Beach alterations and additions — Alterations & additions, Mollymook Beach

Mollymook Beach · Shoalhaven

Mollymook Beach alterations and additions

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2024

A 728 m² Mollymook Beach block falling to the street, where a garage level, a reworked ground floor and a new first floor had to come in under a 335 m² floor-space cap — the scheme lands at 330.14 m², five square metres of margin across three levels.

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Mortdale rear addition — Alterations & additions, Mortdale

Mortdale · Georges River

Mortdale rear addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Lodged 2024

A 266 m² battle-axe strata lot at Mortdale with 199.5 m² of floor space available and only 132 m² used — the control that actually had to be drawn around is the 10% landscaped-area minimum, once the new patios, deck and concrete had taken their share.

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North Bondi alterations & additions — Alterations & additions, North Bondi

North Bondi · Waverley

North Bondi alterations & additions

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2024

A 203 m² semi in North Bondi carrying an FSR of 0.91:1 — three levels squeezed into a six-metre-wide cottage, with a roof garden and privacy screens trimmed to keep the neighbours out of it.

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Port Hacking pool and terrace — Alterations & additions, Port Hacking

Port Hacking · Sutherland Shire

Port Hacking pool and terrace

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2024

A new outdoor pool and terrace cut into the fall of a 696 m² Port Hacking block, with a landscape plan carrying the scheme to 47.68% landscaped area against a 30% minimum.

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Port Hacking alterations & additions — Alterations & additions, Port Hacking

Port Hacking · Sutherland Shire

Port Hacking alterations & additions

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2024

An E3-zoned waterfront block where the ground floor already worked — so the whole addition went upstairs, and the numbers came in well under every control that could have stopped it.

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Surry Hills terrace attic and rear addition — Alterations & additions, Surry Hills

Surry Hills · Sydney

Surry Hills terrace attic and rear addition

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2024

A 75.9 m² heritage-listed terrace in a listed group at Surry Hills, with no landscaped area at all and 1.75:1 of floor space to work inside — every square metre had to come from the roof and the rear, and the street elevation had to stay exactly as it is.

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Woollahra heritage alterations and additions — Alterations & additions, Woollahra

Woollahra · Woollahra

Woollahra heritage alterations and additions

Alterations & additions · DA · Built 2024

A single-storey cottage in the Woollahra Heritage Conservation Area that needed a second storey and off-street parking, without changing how it reads from the street.

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Woombah alterations and additions — Alterations & additions, Woombah

Woombah · Clarence Valley

Woombah alterations and additions

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2024

A 2.35 ha large-lot block at Woombah where floor space and landscaping were never going to be the argument — the job was giving a house that had grown room by room a single new living wing and a detached garage, inside the setbacks and the outbuilding height limits.

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Bondi terrace addition — Alterations & additions, Bondi

Bondi · Waverley

Bondi terrace addition

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2023

A 107.5 m² Bondi terrace where the existing house already stands at 0.92:1 against a 0.6:1 limit — on a lot this size nothing about the addition can be argued on compliance, so it is argued on the envelope the terrace row already sets.

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Caringbah South deck and carport — Alterations & additions, Caringbah South

Caringbah South · Sutherland Shire

Caringbah South deck and carport

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2023

A 563 m² Caringbah South block where the house, the pool and the level change between them were all staying — the work is a rear deck, a carport and a new entry, and the whole scheme turns on holding landscaped area above 35% while adding roofed area at the front.

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Engadine rear extension — Alterations & additions, Engadine

Engadine · Sutherland Shire

Engadine rear extension

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2023

A single-storey rear extension on a 668 m² Engadine block that had to stay inside the 335 m² floor-space cap and the 8.5 m height for the Housing Alterations Code — it lands at 190 m², so landscaped area was never the fight here.

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Kareela first floor addition and pool — Alterations & additions, Kareela

Kareela · Sutherland Shire

Kareela first floor addition and pool

Alterations & additions · DA · Concept 2023

A 556.4 m² Kareela block zoned C4 Environmental Living, falling away from the street so the house sits on piers above the garden — height, setbacks and the front building line all stay as they are, and the whole scheme is drawn to land inside a 0.5:1 floor space ratio and a 40% landscaped area.

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Miranda house and granny flat — Secondary dwelling, Miranda

Miranda · Sutherland Shire

Miranda house and granny flat

Secondary dwelling · CDC · Built 2023

A 583 m² Miranda block with a tired rear garage and a single-storey house — rebuild the garage as a garage plus one-bedroom granny flat, open the house to a new living pavilion and plunge pool, all under one complying development certificate.

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Sylvania cabana and alfresco — Alterations & additions, Sylvania

Sylvania · Sutherland Shire

Sylvania cabana and alfresco

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2023

A 1,244 m² Sylvania block where the house and its pool were already built and nothing could move — so the new alfresco, cabana and pool bathroom had to land in the back yard without touching gross floor area and while lifting landscaped area past the 40% minimum that applies once a lot passes 900 m².

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Woolooware addition and secondary dwelling — Alterations & additions, Woolooware

Woolooware · Sutherland Shire

Woolooware addition and secondary dwelling

Alterations & additions · CDC · Lodged 2023

A 575 m² Woolooware block asked to carry a first-floor addition, a pool, a new garage and a secondary dwelling in the old one — floor space had 25 m² of headroom and the landscaped-area minimum is what every square metre of paving had to be argued against.

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Gymea Bay pool and terrace — Alterations & additions, Gymea Bay

Gymea Bay · Sutherland Shire

Gymea Bay pool and terrace

Alterations & additions · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2022

A 562.8 m² Gymea Bay block falling close to four metres from the ground floor to the low corner of the yard, where the pool could only go once a terrace had been cut and retained — and a new internal stair had to be found inside an existing two-storey house to reach it.

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Mudgee two-lot subdivision — New dwelling, Mudgee

Mudgee · Mid-Western Regional

Mudgee two-lot subdivision

New dwelling · DA · Concept 2022

A two-lot subdivision and a new single-storey house on each lot at Mudgee, worked through sixteen concepts — the 0.9 m side setbacks and 80 m² of private open space per dwelling are what set the footprints.

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Woolooware upper-level addition — Alterations & additions, Woolooware

Woolooware · Sutherland Shire

Woolooware upper-level addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2022

Three new bedrooms and a bathroom over an existing Woolooware house, with the landscaped area finishing at 30.17% against a 30% minimum — 1.2 m² of margin on the control that decides whether the job is complying development at all.

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Yarrawarrah rear addition and pool — Alterations & additions, Yarrawarrah

Yarrawarrah · Sutherland Shire

Yarrawarrah rear addition and pool

Alterations & additions · DA · Lodged 2022

A 645 m² C4 Environmental Living block where floor space was never the constraint — the proposal lands 32 m² under its cap — but the 40% landscaped area minimum is, and the pool and terrace put it 3 m² short.

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Blackheath split-level house — New dwelling, Blackheath

Blackheath · Blue Mountains

Blackheath split-level house

New dwelling · [CONFIRM] · Concept 2021

A 676.3 m² Blackheath block reached over a three-metre right of carriageway and falling about ten metres across the survey — the house is cut into three half-levels so it steps with the ground instead of sitting on a cut platform, and takes 18% of the site.

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Gymea Bay attic addition — Alterations & additions, Gymea Bay

Gymea Bay · Sutherland Shire

Gymea Bay attic addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Approved 2021

A first-floor and attic addition on a 537.5 m² Gymea Bay block that finishes at 289.53 m² against a 290 m² floor-space cap — less than half a square metre of margin on the control that decides whether the job is complying development at all.

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Port Hacking secondary dwelling — Secondary dwelling, Port Hacking

Port Hacking · Sutherland Shire

Port Hacking secondary dwelling

Secondary dwelling · CC · Approved 2021

A 59 m² secondary dwelling and a whole-house renovation on a 1,527 m² Port Hacking block in the C4 zone — landscaped area finishes at 40.32% against a 40% minimum, so every paved metre in the scheme had to be argued for.

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Woolooware new dwelling — New dwelling, Woolooware

Woolooware · Sutherland Shire

Woolooware new dwelling

New dwelling · CDC · Approved 2021

A replacement two-storey house on a 695 m² Woolooware block, drawn to land at 334.98 m² of floor space against a 335 m² cap — complying development only works if the design is built to the number, not trimmed back to it.

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Kirrawee two-storey addition — Alterations & additions, Kirrawee

Kirrawee · Sutherland Shire

Kirrawee two-storey addition

Alterations & additions · CDC · Lodged 2020

A 670 m² Kirrawee block falling away from the street with the garage and pool already built at their own levels — the floor-space cap was never close, the first-floor side setback and the 8.5 m height were what the new upper level had to be drawn inside.

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Ultimo · City of Sydney

Ultimo duplex

Dual occupancy · DA · Approved 2019

Two dwellings on a tight inner-city lot, with the street facade worked through several options before the one that went forward.

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Burraneer bedroom wing addition — Alterations & additions, Burraneer

Burraneer · Sutherland Shire

Burraneer bedroom wing addition

Alterations & additions · DA · Built 2018

A two-storey house on a 556 m² E4 Environmental Living block, adding three bedrooms and a garage at ground level around an existing pool — landscaped area lands at 37% against the 40% minimum the zone sets.

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Sylvania · Sutherland Shire

Sylvania dual occupancy

Dual occupancy · DA · Built 2018

One title, two street frontages, and a default layout that would have buried the second dwelling behind the first.

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Eight Drake

New dwelling · DA · Built

[CONFIRM — one or two sentences: what the block made difficult, and how the plan answered it.]

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Hillcrest estate

New dwelling · DA · Built

A main residence and a separate stables apartment on a large rural-residential holding, planned around the lake views and the long approach past the entrance pond.

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