Ideas To Reality
Bellarine Building Design and Drafting
Building Designer for Building Permits and Planning Permits
- Drafting
- Building Design
- New Homes and Renovations
- Building Permit Plans
- Planning Permits
- Townhouse / Unit Developments
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, Building Regulations and Australian standards.
Q: Do you build as well?
We offer the service of design and drafting of plans and documents, but not physical construction or the site 'build'.
Plans are used by builders to quote, and latter build your project on site, also for planning permit documents allowing you permission to build.
We are an independent Building Design service for the design and drafting of plans and documents required to seek permits and explain what is to be built. This means any designs are yours and not the property of a specific builder or others who would retain copyright of your project for only their own use or construction option.
Independent plans are importantly used by you to show a variety of builders your project so they can offer you a quotation. You can then make an informed and competitive choice on build cost and builder relationship, considering you will enter a building contract together for construction.
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 own ideas into reality through discussion, interpretation, design stages and construction plans.
Working from either limited ideas, scrapbooked ideas, personal sketches, lists and notes, photo ideas and consultation discussions, we offer concept design options on plan, to guide you through to a final design for your site, objectives and requirements.
A final design is then detailed into a preliminary plan set that you can show builders to offer their build quotation to confirm the construction costs.
Once a suitable builder and build cost has been selected, final plans are issued for use in permit submissions and construction on site with a registered builder, or as owner builder yourself.
Free initial consultation and quotation, so we understand your project before you get started.
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 design type projects, preparing existing site information combined with building design aligned to your personal requirements and individual site conditions.
All construction projects around the home and on your land require plans and permits, we can guide and work through everything with you or for you, to achieve the appropriate design and documentation.
Once you have a design and plans demonstrating what you are doing, you can pass your plans around to builders seeking construction quotes for the best build price and construction service you feel comfortable signing a building contract.
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 on what you want to achieve, but it will require plans and reporting to demonstrate and discuss what is being proposed aligned with the assessment criteria of the planning overlay.
For all projects we will advise any planning overlays affecting your land when we quote your project.
This is not a stop on what you want to achieve, but it will require plans and reporting to demonstrate and discuss what is being proposed aligned with the assessment criteria of the planning overlay.
For all projects we will advise any planning overlays affecting your land when we quote your project.
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. The Initial consultation and quotation are free, so we understand your project before you're ready to get started.
Design:Design concept options back and forth together seeking a final outcome for your ideas to reality. Working with your ideas, we also incorporate planning and building requirements for latter considerations of construction efficiency, planning or building permit regulations and site conditions.
Planning:When a planning permit is required for your site, we can also prepare the submission requirements for your project to seek permission for your Design. We can also manage the Planning Permit application for you as the applicant, or you can submit your documents directly to Council yourself to self-manage if it's a basic submission.
Drafting:
We prepare your design into working drawings, a full set of plans for building Producing high-quality interpretable working drawings for use in building permits and the construction on site.
Project Management:
We can seek and manage any third parties relevant to your project such as an energy rate of a new home or engineering for any specific project needs.
