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So what is a secondary dwelling? And what do you need to know about them? My name is Colin Fragar from Council Approval Group.
I’d like to actually illustrate this on my iPad. I’d like to draw the diagram for you about the different types of secondary dwellings and perhaps expand your mind and your vision about what’s achievable. But before I do that, I just want to share with you Your Ultimate Guide to Council Approval. Make sure you grab your free copy right now from our website because we will put one in the post for you. It goes through some of these things that we’re discussing and will really help you to get thinking about not just secondary dwellings, but other development types.
Secondary Dwelling Rules
So secondary dwellings have slightly different rules depending on the jurisdiction, but the concept overall is that a secondary dwelling is ancillary to a principal dwelling. It can’t be on a separate piece of land. It needs to be on the same land and be ancillary to the principal dwelling. So here’s a few examples for you.Detached Secondary Dwelling
So a kind of run of the mill concept for a secondary dwelling is to have the principal dwelling, we call it P for principal, with the secondary dwelling behind, we’ll call it S. Okay, so you’ve got a secondary dwelling behind and it’s detached.Attached Secondary Dwelling
You can also have ones which are attached which may be an advantage if you don’t have as much space and you also want to maybe have a little bit more space for the secondary dwelling itself. Or maybe there’s some car parking or some turning issues that you might have as well.Please keep in mind, and people often don’t think about this, maybe there is an option to have the secondary dwelling underneath the principal dwelling. You have it underneath in your basement. Or another alternative is, of course, to have it on top and the principal dwelling down below. I have one of these myself, personally.
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My name is Colin Fragar from Council Approval Group.