You Gotta Love Council!

Heard from our draftsman today. She received the plans back all stamped and ready from the mine subsidance board and went on Monday with our cheque in hand to council to lodge our request for a DA. Got there to discover that council has decided to introduce a new checklist of requirements since she was last there to lodge a DA request for someone - just a couple of days before Christmas. They now need a shadow diagram - easy, draftsman went back and did that - and as our site is affected by Geotechnical zones it needs an endorsement from someone to confirm that with it being on a slope, the house won't slide down the hill. As with the mine subsidance thingy, the entire development has already been checked and approved and endorsed by someone but now council wants each site endorsed again seperately. Good if you are the company that got paid by the developers to sus out the whole site and now are going to get paid again by each separate applicant who wants to build on one of these endorsed sites to have it re-endorsed. $450 a pop, no less. Great. Draftsman will orgnise that today and hopefully be ready once again to pay a visit to council on Friday. Hopefully they've not introduced a new, new checklist by then!