Planning Permit has arrived!

After a very long wait we finally have our planning permit. We weren't sure whether our neighbour was going to appeal the original decision so had to wait a very long 21 days and then another 2 weeks of further bureaucracy before it was finally issued.

We popped the cork on a bottle of champers last night to celebrate. Nothing can hold up the start of our build now unless it's us taking too long to review documents and make decisions.

Next stop is the tender. The architects have been working furiously to get all of the paperwork together. So after some review time we will be ready to put it out to the 4 builders that we have lined up. Hopefully we have changed or pulled out enough things that the budget will be more in the range we are hoping for. The timeframe also is the other unknown.

Yesterday, I was at the house with the architect to review a few details for the demolition spec. It turns outs we are really only keep about 5 walls of the house (3 external and 2 internal), the rest is getting bull dozed. This house really won't know what hit it. There won't be much left at all to begin with.