Progress

We have development approval! We have development approval! We have development approval!

Well, clearly we don't have it in our sticky mitts yet (too much to hope for, we're only 6 months into the planning process...) but we have been reliably informed that it was being typed up on Monday to be posted to our architect, scanned and then passed on to us. So we spent a couple of hours down at the Council offices yesterday filling in forms and paying over outrageous sums of money to get the whole Construction Certificate process underway. For the uninitiated, Construction Certificates are a way of progressively inspecting and certifying the build once it's underway, so that it can be said to conform with bye-laws, planning constraints etc.

On a slightly LESS enthusiastic note, we also have the proposal for a Coffs Harbour by-pass which, if the relevant legislation goes through and the land is bought up and so on, will pass within a kilometre of the bottom of our block, although it will be partially hidden by trees. I suspect we'll get some noise from it; eight lanes aren't quiet, after all. However, it isn't even going to be started for another decade and Australians seem generally quite sanguine about living near big roads so I doubt if it will have any effect on the financial value of the land. And it's so far into the future, who knows what will happen?