DA and CDC approvals
Approval is where most residential projects lose their first six months. The way to shorten it is to design for the pathway from the start, rather than drawing the house you want and then finding out which consent it needs.
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- Northern Beaches, North Shore & South Coast
Included in this service
Pathway advice
Whether your project can go the CDC route or needs a DA, worked out before the design is locked, not after.
DA plans
Development application drawings and the supporting documentation councils on the Northern Beaches and North Shore expect to see.
CDC approvals
Complying development where the site and the proposal allow it, which is the faster and more certain path.
Council liaison
We deal with the requests for information so you are not translating planner language on your lunch break.
Planning strategy
Reading the controls for what they permit, not only what they prohibit.
The difference one team makes.
We are the ones who will build it, so we do not draw something for approval that becomes a problem on site.
You get a complete itemised price before the job starts, a flexible pricing structure, one site supervisor who is on your job, a published programme with weekly reporting, and a defects walk with a twelve month check after you move in.
How we work, stage by stageWe have done this.
Willoughby: Top storey addition, Forsyth Street
Top storey addition · 2026
Bought as an investment. We walked the property with the client during the inspection stage, before they had committed to buying, and worked out that the highest return would come from adding a top storey. The plans and approvals went through as a council CDC and were finished inside the three months before settlement, so construction could start immediately rather than waiting on a consent.
See the project“His communication was top notch through the entire process.”
Thinking about a project?
We will come and look, and tell you what it will really cost.