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Castle Hill Building Site Checks: What to Know Before Designing Your Home

Key Castle Hill building site checks before design: survey, slope, stormwater, easements, trees, services and planning controls.

TL;DR Before designing a new home, extension or rebuild, Castle Hill owners should check the site first. The most important Castle Hill building site checks include survey, boundaries, easements, slope, stormwater, driveway access, trees, services, zoning, bushfire/flood/heritage constraints and approval pathway. Design should respond to the block, not ignore it. Introduction A beautiful design can become expensive if it fights the site. Castle Hill has many different block types: older established streets, sloping lots, large family blocks, newer redeveloped properties and sites affected by services or drainage. This makes early site due diligence essential. Why Site Checks Come Before Design Site checks help answer practical questions: Where can the home actually sit? How high can it be?…