A month since our last update

We have had developer approval and are waiting for shire approval now, we have someone assigned to the case and it should be another 3 weeks or so.

In the past couple of weeks we have signed off our last variation (which has added some nice little finishing touches to the house) and are just awaiting final plans from the Builder.  We have also signed off the mortgage documents for the building loan hoping once the shire give us the nod we can get started straight away especially as the plot next to us already have their pad down!

Oh and George is pregnant so now we REALLY need to get things moving so we are in as soon as possible!
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Plans in for shire approval

Its been a quiet few weeks on the blog front but we have had our first battle.

Plans were submitted to the land developer, LWP, for approval a couple of weeks ago but were rejected last week on the grounds the the front elevation of the house did not meet the design guidelines for the area.  LWP wanted us to include a "feature highlight" to the front of the house from brick or wood and after reviewing the contract we felt this wasnt a requirement.

After much going back and forth and arguing our point LWP have backed down and we have compromised on having two render colours on the front of the house rather than the one we have planned.

We think it will look better like this anyway and to avoid any delays the builder is throwing it in for nothing so a win all round!

Plans should go in for shire approval tomorrow and after that we are ready to go.
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Plot topped off, surveyed and pavements in

Just nipped up to the plot on our way to the Swan Valley for some dinner and everything is feeling a lot more finished all of a sudden.

The plot has been pegged out and topped off to say that its complete apart from some minor grouting which needs to be done on the retaining walls its all ready now.  All the surrounding plots are done also so it cant be long now until they have completely finished our road.

The land surveyors were up yesterday so final plans can be finished now and sent to shire for approval although we are still waiting for the costings from the builder for the prestart items which is quite annoying as we should have had them last week...

Apologies for the crappy photo quality only had my iPhone on me

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Its official, we now own a bit of Australia

At 3pm today settlement went through on the land, yay!

Have also had a call from LWP to say the land will be pegged this week so the site surveys can be arranged now so full steam ahead from here hopefully :o)
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Sinks, Taps & Shower

We are mainly happy with the standard inclusions from the builder but these are the Bathroom and Kitchen things we have asked the builder include as extras

En Suite Sinks

En Suite Taps

En Suite Shower Column

Kitchen Tap

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Prestart done and land mortgage signed

After our 4 hour prestart meeting yesterday we have put in all our requests to the builder and have to wait about a week now to get the new costings back, expecting quite a lot of extra money for everything we want but hoping our expected budget is about right so we dont have to compromise too much...

Also went to the bank to sign the mortgage for the land if everything goes well we should have the land completed by Monday.

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Land has titled

Just had a call from the settlement agent to say that the land has titled and we have until the 14th to complete on the sale.  Mortgage documents being prepared as we speak and full steam ahead from here!
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