How do trees affect your residential home extension project?

It comes to a trend lately that a lot of our clients are looking towards home extensions for a few reasons:

1. Simply they are looking for a bigger residential space for a larger family
2. They could not afford to buy a bigger house due to the rapidly growing property market prices
3. They would like to get some extra rental incomes
4. Add value to their current property before selling their house

Disregards which option is it that you are looking for a residential drafting design services company, one thing that you've got to be aware of is TREES! Yes, they do impact on your project significantly.

Depending on where you locate, and depending on which local council your property belongs to, before trying to be overly excited about extending your current home, or building a Granny flat, make sure you consult your residential design drafting company to assist you with help in DA approvals and lodgement. The trees are a critical element because there are a lot to be considered:

Here are some examples:

• Set backs of boundaries
• Consideration of root growth and how it may impact on the extension foundations
• Tree species - whether it can be knocked down due to endangered types
• The location of the tree - affecting the shape of your extension

Therefore, it's important that you are aware of trees being part of your land space, when you decide to build a granny flat, or doing a home extensions.

At Go Design Solutions, we are a residential drafting specialist who assist our clients by analysising different ideas of what can or cannot be done in situations with trees. If trees are to be removal, we also have our arborist to provide professional reports for DA applications to your local councils.