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Bellarine Building Design and Drafting

Drafting ServiceServicing The Bellarine
  • Drafting
  • Building Design
  • Plans for Building Permits
  • Plans for Planning Applications

FAQ

Frequently asked questions
Q: What is the difference between a Planning and Building Permit ?
A planning permit is the permission to do what you want to do on your land. A building permit is the construction detail of how you build it, aligned with the building code, regulations and Australian standards.
Q: Do you build as well?
We offer the service of design and drafting of plans and documents, but not construction or the site 'build'. Plans are used by builders to build your project on site and also the permit documents allowing you permission to build. We are a independent drafting service for the design and drafting of plans and documents required to seek permits and explain what is to be built. Independent plans are also importantly used by you to show a variety of builders your project so they can offer you a quotation. You can then make a informed and competitive choice on build cost and builder selection.
Q: We have ideas of what we want and like, but how do we put it all together so it could be built ?
We custom design your ideas into reality through design stages and construction plans. Working from either limited ideas, scrapbooked ideas, personal sketchs, photos and consultation we offer design options on plan, to guide you through to a final design for your site. A final design is then detailed into a preliminary plan set that you can show builders to offer their quotation. Once a suitable builder and price has been selected final plans are prepared and issued for use in permit submission and construction on site.
Q: Is any job to small ?
No job is to small and we treat every job with the same professional service standards and enthusiasm. Our core focus and experience is the design of any residential projects, preparing existing site information combined with design aligned to your personal requirements and outcomes. All construction projects around the home and land require plans and permits, which we can guide and work through with yourself to achieve the appropriate design and documentation. Once you have a design and plans explaining what you are doing, you can pass around to as many builders to seek construction quotes for the best price and construction service you feel comfortable engaging to build.
Q: Council has advised us of planning overlays on my land. I cant do any building without a planning permit ?
Yes, many areas of the Bellarine and Geelong have different planning conditions over your land and require a planning permit before you can obtain a building permit.
This is not a stop or stress on what you want to acheive, but it will require plans and reporting to demonstrate and discuss what is proposed aligned with the assessment criteria.
All projects we will also advise you any planning overlays affecting you when we quote your project.
If the planning conditions are simple or not relevant to what your doing, quite often the standard building plans are used to demonstrate why planning requirements are not triggered, so you can move on to building.
Q: What is the process of Building design and drafting ?
Quotation:We will offer advice, note your objectives and ideas, investigate your site conditions producing a quotation for your consideration. Design:A stage for the creation of your projects design concepts and reaching a final choosen outcome. Working with your ideas we also incorporate planning and building conditions for latter considerations of construction efficiency, planning or building permit conditions. Planning:When a planning application is appropriate to your site we can prepare this for your project. Our building plans may also incorporate both planning submission and building submission into the same plan set, if the planning conditions are basic. Detailed planning applications will require specific site analysis with plans and written report documents we can prepare for you. We can also manage the application for you as the applicant, or you can submit your documents directly to Council yourself to self manage. Drafting: We are a Bellarine Draftsman for the local Bellarine region, producing high quality interpretable working drawings. Building Plans:Plans sets for building permit submission, and use on site by the builder to construct your project.