Hi TimBone, we are building a two storey home as well (no granny flat) and 365 sqm in total area. The base price plus council and developer requirements and our…

Hi SimonW, we were issued a tender extension variation with our builder (for 3 months). We managed to get two months complimentary by showing explicitly where we caused delays and…

Hi luxbuild,
Prior to tender we asked for the as displayed upgrade pricelists for each of the displays we liked. This allowed us to get a good idea of what…

We are a corner block in stage 2 release 7 and have had to consider this. We have an easement to drain water 1.5m wide at the rear of the…

Hi MacRock, our builder found some rock when they did the initial testing for our tender. There was a rock allowance of $5000 but hopefully it won’t be needed or…

Thanks Mish, we aren’t so lucky so just getting ideas at the moment

Thanks Mish for confirming. Totally agree it’s appalling. Just out of interest who did you get to do your landscaping plans?

We have been advised by our builder that currently plan approvals from Campbelltown Council are quite slow (12-14 weeks) and that Landscaping plans are required as part of the Council…

Yeah ok we had BAL29 and also a slope abit over 1m. We also have a rock allowance too

It really depends what you put in your tender and if it includes all the main upgrades you are after. After Rawson gave us our initial tender there were still…

Hi Patels, it depends whether you are a corner block or not. Take a look at page 82 of https://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/fil ... esnity.pdf there are also Macarthur…

Hi Mish,
Yes we are on Mahoney Drive opposite the bush coridoor. We also think it is abit much given the few trees around. However it is subject to assessment so…

Hi Mish,
We are going to be building in Stage 2 Release 7 Macarthur Heights. Would be interested in what people recommend, but our builder gave us an assesment of 29…

Thanks for sharing Huhness. Your home is going to look amazing!

I should add that I felt totally confused as well as we have the complication of a corner block which has different setback requirements depending on how we want to…

We are building a 39 square double storey house on a 540sqm block in Macarthur Heights as well. We were told by our builder that our house would be too…

No not yet. We recently had our plan presentation and external colours consult. Just deciding on what upgrades we want to do

Yes it is. We felt the u shaped kitchen wasn’t exactly how we wanted it so we created an island bench. We also increased the size of the kitchen and…

My wife and I are planning on building a modified Chifley 37 MKII in Macarthur Heights. Our experience with Rawson so far has been really good. Hoping that the rest…

Thanks Mish, we also looked at a few of the Wisdom Home displays and they all looked amazing. We particularly liked the Manhattan display at Oran Park. We ended up…

Hi, we are looking to build a Rawson Chifley in Mahoney Drive!