PROJECTS

Prime Boulevard, Encounter Bay

Our Role: Subdivision re-design and Project Management

Our client purchased this 21ha broad-acre land holding with an existing planning approval for residential development over the whole site. The site was the balance remaining from an earlier partially completed land division project by previous owners.

We were engaged to redesign the land division, and our new application achieved a better layout more suited to the land form, an increased allotment yield providing a broader range of allotment sizes, whilst maintaining vehicular and servicing linkages to the earlier stages. We negotiated planning approval with the local government authority, and coordinated the surveying and engineering services in order for construction to commence.

This ongoing project has so far involved 3 stages of approximately 30 Torrens titles each. We are currently finalising a fourth stage being a medium density component of the project involving 26 Community titles, whilst another 2 Torrens titles stages are yet to be completed.

The overall design of the land division has enabled the efficient and cohesive ongoing development program, well suited to match market demand for residential land in this more seasonal coastal location.

Copperfield Estate at Evanston

Our Role: Detailed subdivision design, stakeholder consultation and Project Management

Our client purchased the broad-acre holding from the state government as part of the extension to the greater Adelaide metropolitan area. Subsequent negotiations with some other smaller adjoining land owners increased the overall size of the project.

We were engaged to design the subdivision, and as project managers. The local government authority required that the development retain all stormwater on site so that downstream infrastructure did not require up-sizing. To achieve this, retention basins were implemented as a specific design feature of the entry to the estate. Other important elements incorporated into the design involved mproved vehicular access to the nearby high school, road design hierarchy suitable for the continued staging of the project, yet delivering ease of servicing, and the provision for varied allotment sizes in appropriate locations to appeal to the broader community wishing to build new homes. We negotiated planning approval with the local government authority, and coordinated the surveying and engineering services in order for construction to commence.

The prominence of the location, size of the development and the attractive layout, meant numerous Adelaide based project home builders elected to purchase allotments for show homes. This accelerated sales and the speed of home construction, such that the project was completed well in advance of expected timing thereby enabling the developer to commence subsequent projects.

Localities including: Tumby Bay, Quorn, Kingston on Murray, Springton and Coffin Bay

Our Role: Lands Titles Office Searching, Calculations and Preparing CAD Plans for easement registration.

For many years we have been engaged to prepare easement plans, some involving more than 100 allotments, to implement septic tank effluent drainage schemes (STEDS) in numerous localities including Tumby Bay, Quorn, Kingston on Murray, Springton and Coffin Bay.

These projects required searching of Lands Titles Office survey and old systems data, and preparing accurate CAD plans for registering the easements. In many cases the calculations were complex, being based partially on old data derived with angles, and new data derived from bearings. Constant liaison with engineers, valuers, conveyancers and salespeople is often necessary because pipeline locations are subject to change.

Localities including major shopping centres: Hallett Cove, Ingle Farm, St Agnes, Gilles Plains and Whyalla

Our Role: Site Measure-up, Calculations and Preparing CAD Plans for lease registration.

Conveyancers and Lawyers who negotiate lease areas between tenants and landlords engage us to attend the site to measure-up the area, and prepare a plan with which the lease becomes registered on the Certificate of Title. We have been involved with implementing leases for large shopping centre complexes including Hallett Cove, Ingle Farm, St Agnes, Gilles Plains and Whyalla.

We utilise the Property Council Guidelines which outline the principles for measurements and lease boundary interpretation. All our plans are drawn to the Lands Titles Office drafting standards. Conveyancers and Lawyers also often deal with contracts and other documents which require plans to provide a spatial context. For example, a plan can easily portray which land is subject to the stipulations of a Land Management Agreement imposed by a Council for the protection of a stand of native vegetation or assert some form of planning control such as defining building envelopes.