The Benefits of a Granny Flat Approval
Granny flats continue to be an ideal and relatively low-risk development option for homeowners, offering a range of benefits.
Our clients find that the addition of a granny flat to a property offers multiple advantages including:
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- Steady Rental Income: Granny flats can generate a reliable rental income stream. With high demand for affordable housing, this can be an effective way to supplement your finances.
- Increased Property Value: Underutilised space can boost your property’s value and a well-designed granny flat can make the property more appealing to future buyers.
- Flexible Living Arrangements: Granny flats can serve various functions, including the housing of extended family members, providing a private space for adult children, or functioning as a home office or studio.
- Downsizing or Future-proofing: As homeowners age, they can move into the granny flat and rent out the main house, maintaining a comfortable lifestyle while reducing living expenses. It can be a place to retire while holding onto the family home.
In summary, our clients often find that a granny flat approval helps increase and improve a property’s potential, adapt to changing lifestyle needs, and secure a valuable financial asset for the future.
Some of the Issues You’ll Face with your Granny Flat Council Approval…
If you’re feeling overwhelmed or drowning in endless paperwork and compliance, you’re not alone. The planning system is complex and can be frustrating for homeowners.
Putting together a granny flat or secondary dwelling application can be extremely hard and tiring and dealing with council can be a nightmare, not to mention the whole process can be very expensive in both time and money. Plus, we’re pretty sure, you have better things to do… That’s where we fit in!
It’s what we do, all day, everyday. With a team of 20+ highly knowledgeable and experienced town planners, property consultants, registered architect and draftsman we’re pretty good at what we do.
What Rules Do I Need to Comply With?
Having worked on hundreds of granny flat and secondary dwelling projects over the past 25 years common compliance rules and questions to consider are:
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Defining your Granny Flat – Before you jump into your granny flat project it’s important to take a step back to consider whether a granny flat is your best and only option. Often we find that there are better development scenarios that are a real possibility. Can a dual occupancy be placed on the property that would mean a larger floor area? Can we find a way to subdivide your property?
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State or Local Rules – A granny flat or secondary dwelling is sometimes not only regulated by the State instrument but by the local planning rules. This can provide small but significant discrepancies to achieve the ultimate outcome for your project.
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Parking – Although there are rules around not needing car parking for a granny flat or secondary dwelling, you may want to consider how your end rental return will be affected if you don’t have car accommodation. There are some important nuances that will be important for us to help you consider before moving forward with your project.
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Floor Area Did you know that you may not be limited to 60m2? If engaged by you our team will go through every possible rule to see what we can do to maximise the livability of your granny flat or secondary dwelling.
And Here’s How We Can Help…
We understand that getting to the point of having the right approval for your granny flat or secondary dwelling is not an easy journey. It’s one that needs the best experience the industry has to offer. That’s why we’re here to help… We’d love to make your council approval journey for a granny flat or secondary dwelling simple and as pain free as possible.
We’ve worked on hundreds of granny flat and secondary dwelling projects and have dedicated town planners and designers that specialise in this type of development application.
You can glean from the wisdom we’ve gained from all of our past projects. 25 years of being in the industry and our 50 consecutive years of experience has taught us a few things.
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To get that success rate it has only come after helping over 30,491 people. We’ve worked hard to smooth out the kinks before they appear by carrying out this Preliminary Planning Assessment (PPA) on your property. It works a treat, especially for what it can do for you, the journey of the project and its future.
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We could make up a fantasied timeframe to wow you, but to be straight up the length of getting an approval is dependent on the project development type, the local council, who examines your application within council, location of the property within the local council and on the property itself, and the list goes on. The approval process will no doubt take longer than you expect because we are dealing with administrative red tape.
But what our team has done has studied the 30,491+ properties we have been involved in and analysed the 300+ flight years of team council approval experience to create a formidable system.
So to answer the question, how long does it take for us to get council approval? The fastest in our industry.
We have over 20 team members lead by our founder Max Fragar with his 50 consecutive years of town planning and council approval knowledge. The team is made up of skilled town planners, property consultants and designers that we have hand picked to work on your project. It turns out that we’ve had over 300 collective years of experience working and dealing with local government councils.
What does this mean for you? One word, streamline. We know how to talk the council lingo, can perceive even predict the ins and outs of those council hoops of fire, and understand the nitty gritty to work tirelessly to achieve the best outcomes for our clients and their projects.
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Our firm currently has the capacity to assist clients with projects located across New South Wales, Victoria and South East Queensland. We anticipate being able to offer our services to other states in the near future.
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