Whether you’re building another unit behind your existing house, demolishing and building four new units, or doing a multi level apartment building, your architect/draftsperson will require a survey for site analysis including the following services:
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Feature/Level Survey
Your architect/draftsperson will require a survey to locate features and levels on your site so they can design to meet your requirements whilst considering the existing levels, trees and features on your site.
This survey will include levels and contours of the site, and features such as trees, pits, etc, from the road/kerb to your back fence and any adjoining buildings/features within 9m of your site. We also measure heights of the adjoining buildings and window/door locations for the architect to consider overlooking/overshadowing requirements. Depending on your architect’s requirements, they will often require additional setbacks and details of neighbouring properties.
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Boundary Re-establishment Survey
This survey will detail the difference between your fencing and the boundaries of your title. Whilst this does not need to be completed at the design stage, we do recommend it so that you have time to address any discrepancies (big or small) before you’re ready to build. If the fences are not in the correct position, you can accommodate it in the design, or resolve it with neighbours before you’re ready to build. Having to re-design the development because the existing fences do not agree with the title boundaries can be a costly exercise.We will integrate the boundary survey details into the feature/level survey plan and show enlargements to highlight differences between fences/buildings and the title boundary.
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Australian Height Datum (AHD)
Australian Height Datum was set in 1971 as the mean sea level, and now used by authorities as a datum for their assets/pipes/services.
As your proposal/design will require Council planning approval, then levels on the plan will need to be shown to AHD. We search a register of permanent marks, verify the height, transfer the level datum to your property and update all the levels on our feature/level survey into AHD levels.