Documents You'll Need for Council Approval

Thinking about Additions?

Are you thinking of building small additions to your house? If you are, one of the essential steps you need to take is to get your project approved by the council. You will need to gather the right documents for them to assess.

Essential Types of Documents

When you submit documents to the council, they will need to have a precise idea on the project that you have in mind. This way, when the council reviews your plan, they can determine if your plan is compliant to building regulations and help you avoid costly construction mishap. There are six essential documents that you will need to provide. These are briefly described below:

TYPE #1 - Site Plan

As important as the project to be built is the site itself. When making additions to a house, it’s important to know if the right amount of space is available. Therefore, one of the documents that the council would be interested to see is a site plan.

Typically, a site plan will contain the boundaries of a property, the position and footprint left by a building relative to the property, plans for additions, and the relationship that each of these aspects have with each other. The other important elements include measurements of the area, the North point, and the location of the site.

TYPE #2 - Floor Plan

Second on the list are floor plans. Essentially, these documents show the arrangement of rooms inside a specific floor of a building. Their most important component includes the dimensions of the floor, and the names of each room. They also include any construction specifications like the types of roofing and walls. Because floor plans show a top-down view of the inside of a building, they are very important to show for council approval.

TYPE #3 - Elevation

The third type of document are the elevation plans. These show a 2-dimensional diagram from one side of a building as seen from North, South, East and West. Elevation plans can also include relevant dimensions, and more specifications.

TYPE #4 - Section

Next are section plans. These documents contain a diagram of the inside of a building as viewed from one side. For context, take an object - in this case, a building - and cut it in half, then view the inside as seen from the cut. Section plans share many similarities to floor plans, except they are vertical.

TYPE #5 - Details

Details are documents that contain a diagram of a very specific component of a building, up close. The purpose of these documents is to deconstruct the anatomy of certain objects, assemblies of parts, or a system of some sort and explain how they should be built, very precisely. These documents are extremely important for council approval because they ensure that vital components of your project are built correctly.

TYPE #6 - General Notes

Finally, we come to our last document type which are general notes. These are documents filled with text - a set of rules and regulations that explains how the project should be done, as well as other general important practices for building. These rules and regulations will play a big part in the council’s assessment of your project.

Now that you know

Now that you know what documents you will need to obtain for your additions project, you may be asking yourself, where can I get them? If you currently don’t have any of the required documents that you will need for council approval, our team at Marblaze can help you obtain those documents for the procedure. You can request the technical drawings you will need on the contact form on this website.

In addition to the above, engineering documentations will also be required to complete the application for Development Approval.

References:

Bilangel Ariel

https://www.edrawsoft.com/what-is-an-elevation-drawing.html

https://www.leandertx.gov/225/General-Notes

https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/floor-plans

https://www.mysiteplan.com/en-au/blogs/news/site-plan-the-ultimate-guide

https://primedesigntas.com.au/planning-and-building-permits-and-what-to-submit-to-council/

https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_detdrawings_lesson01

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