The real story of planning a development through Woollahra Council.

April 1 2008: Following an AAP meeting between Senior Planners we received approval (well not exactly, but it is a start). Ironic that the day should be April 1!

That’s 258 days since our submission.
(Average for Woollahra Council is 92 days ????)

Or looking another way…
8 months, 14 days
37 weeks
371,520 minutes
6192 hours

They argued for 40 minutes over their own ‘new’ condition that forces us to move our side boundary to a ridiculous 3 metres from the boundary of our neighbour and effectively changes the design completely. The only heart I can draw from this is that at least there are some people in council that have some decency and common sense.

They asked us to put in a Section 96 which means we can appeal and most likely have this decision reversed based on the fact that many of them believed the condition to be fundamentally unfair. In all likelihood we will have the building we first submitted being approved.

We feel relieved - at least we know we can build something.