Hi Benjo... we built with Alkira Homes and they quoted us $1,500 for raingarden which had been included as one of the variations. We didn't have to pay more…

Hi Dave - walk-through has been booked for next week. council inspection also booked and if everything is ok, it's HANDOVER!
House had…

what is interesting is the Mixed Used Development for Residential & Retail application in 11 Hezlett Road... a 5-level block/building. Have you seen this?
http://apps.thehills.nsw.gov.au/DATrack ...…

i'm also on a 450m block... ours has 4.2m rear setback, for a single-storey house.

Dave - i'm interested and open to this idea. Let's have a chat on how do we go about it. Thanks!

Hi Guys... a bit of good and not so good news for us.
Good news is that if all goes well, we were advised that handover could be in 5 weeks'…

Same situation with us... our post settlement document also clearly listed that the pro-rata is based on the settlement date until 30th June 2013. I forwarded my first notice…

Good to see more new neighbours here in the forum.
Dave - I met your in law, who is also building with Alkira, the other week. I also met the…

Welcome dastnaz!
Are you at stage 3? Clarendon is building a couple of houses along Murrayfield Avenue. We're building with Alkira, good progress so far... with gyprock planned this…

CongROOFtulations!
our brickworks... nearly there, another week probably. becoming busier around with more slabs down.

welcome Legs 11. good to see your frame almost complete! we're in lot 215 with brick works started last Wednesday... was told it'll take another week and a…

Hi ameera,
We are currently building with Alkira... their single storey Liana. We just made our first progress payment with the completion of slab! Now waiting for them to…

CDC is definitely much faster from 2 weeks or up to 4 weeks. Heard some get their plans approved in 7 days! But a November start by EBH…

that's really an excellent alternative... ours has about 1.5m of 22% but the remaining 4m is at 12.5%... so looks like there's room for us also considering our blocks have…

2 properties along Highbury Road have submitted their plans for approval. One of them is H&L Package with Alk1r4 and was submitted just today through CDC. You may…

next week probably... the person in Alk1r4 organising plans with council/CDC unfortunately doesn't work on Fridays so it'll have to wait until Monday. we only had minor changes in…

that's awesome... have you submitted your plans to CDC yet? it's going to be busy days ahead.

hi everyone... just got an email from my solicitor informing that our land is now registered! yay

Good to know all you guys. Leo5 - welcome! Hope you're able to shop around/meet some more builders for quotes.

really daveinthehills? that's also what I heard from our builder yesterday (that it's going to be registered today) but we have yet to officially hear from Castlehaven. this…

Thanks daveinthehills!
same situation for us... everything's ready for CDC, so in the mean time, we're completing our colour selection (internals) to add more upgrades, budget permitting. Same thinking on…

Cruiser385, kim08 - where did you build or currently building? I'm building in North Kellyville with one of the H&L packages with Alkira.

Hi daveinthehills, kahell,
looks like we're going to be neighbours soon... we're in 215 - one of the packages sold by Alkira. Just joined H1 and this is my very…