The council have said that the house requires some modification and the neighbours need to agree.
The builder will be meeting with the neighbours in a few days.
Obviously if the…

We won't sign off until the monetary amount has been confirmed.
We are prepared to force a rebuild if the monetary amount is not provided, as we would then be paying…

We have had the meeting and things went well.
The following compensation items were confirmed, but we are still awaiting a response from the builder in regards to the final payment…

We have a meeting today with the builder to negotiate the terms of compensation for the defect. Hopefully it goes well, so far they appear to be wanting to play…

I think this might be a WA thing; I've had a look at a couple of friends contracts and they are both the same. Our contracts are titled "WA HBCA…

Not in that format, at least. It does talk about the time limit, but doesn't go into specifics about what the penalty is for noncompliance.

Thanks GSP07R but my contract is quite different from that one.

Thanks for all your replies!
Unfortunately buying a bit of land from the neighbours is not an option as they only have the minimum set back also.
We are looking into…

It doesn't say what the penalty is for delay in handover - just that they have 250 days to complete the work (there are caveats about weather, supply issues etc).…

Our block is only 11.5m across so the 48cm is HUGE! I am so so angry, and will certainly not be settling for less than what is reasonable. If the…

They were supposed to get another certified survey done after the footings were poured as the size of the blocks in my area (inner-city) are small, so it's important that…

We only had an independent inspector at lock up.
We had also paid for a survey that the builder has now informed us did not occur. Obviously we'll be asking for…

Also, it turns out that we are out by 48cm!

I'm in Perth, so I have contacted the relevant authority here to ask advice.
We had a meeting with the builder today: we will have to change our huge beautiful dining…

If anyone could PM me a good solicitor who deals with building contract issues that would be great!
I thank my lucky stars that this was picked up before handover, although…

I have now spoken to the council who informed me that in it's current position the house does not meet council regulations, and is now too close to the neighbouring…

We have spoken to the builder and they are taking it fairly seriously. The biggest problem is that if the set out doesn't meet council requirements (and if an exemption…

Our house has been built in the wrong position, we are at PCI stage and have noticed that the whole house is 30cm over from where it should be. We…

After a rather lengthy wait, our block is finally titled and so begins our build.
I've been reading through loads of these threads, and they have been super helpful for…