Registration............ Soon..

This last month has felt like years, endless waiting!! But on Monday i had a long awaited call from the Conveyancer letting me know that the title office now has the registration and should only take 7 days to register, fingers crossed we will be first time Land owners and settle in the coming weeks!! On the builders side of things we are nearly completely ready for our build to start just have to sign off on our finally Plans which should be ready next week..... Its very exciting to see all our fellow Avenue bloggers starting there build process, i just cant wait!!

In other news Tristan and I went for a drive down to the estate last Saturday to see the block and visit the new Metricon display, we were a Lil bit excited to see that this display is very similar to our colour choices in so many ways, It was the first time that we have seen our tiles 600x600 porcelain white tiles done in a house and also the kitchen colour choices are very similar, we were really happy to see so many of our choices all together, helpfully ours will just as good!! So if anyone goes into the newest Metricon display have a look at the tiles they are beautiful, very happy with this decision of ours!!

Overlay No More..

I just spoke to Roslyn at the Casey Council and the Overlay has been removed :) The Avenue have been able to get Melbourne Water to remove the overlay, and now i cant remove the smile off my face :)
All we need now is for a land to title and we will be on our way, i hope!! Positive thinking guys!!

Our kitchen (as close as i can find to the same layout)

Ok guys because our house does not have a display and we change our layout a bit, its a bit hard to find pics but this is as close as i can get, the only difference being that the dinning table is going to be directly in front of this photo (in front of the island and there will be an bi-part timber doors to the right where there table is in this kitchen) everything else is very similar, same pantry, fridge space same( except there is a wine rack instead of a cupboard above the fridge) same island and cupboards and oven :)

Thanks Tonia and Shayne I'm very grateful to be able to get every ones opinion and it does help me alot, When i in visioned my kitchen i did see the island as one whole colour.

Reinsey i don't have pics of different coloured islands because most photos are like the one above and you can not see the other side of the island which is what i am confused about it, It is the oppitsite side of the island to the one you can see in this photo that i am talking about. I think that there are pros and cons for both in having the white or ebony maccassa.

Sandrine i looked at your kitchen its beautiful, and you have very similar colour choices to us, only thing is that you have waterfall edges on the island and ours is just the side of the island just wrapped around.

Debra, our tiles are 600x600 porcelain white, bench top is ospray ceaser stone, splash back Antarctica (white on white) so we already have ALOT of white in the house ohh and the walls are white in saying that we did want this look so we can bring the colour in with furniture ect.

What to do????

To many decisions??

I need your help guys?? I have a dilemma, recently we have changed some of our colour choices in the kitchen and today i got the colour schedule back, Overhead cabinets gloss white, lower cabinets gloss white, fridge space and wine rack above the fridge Ebony Maccassa (Dark wood grain) and the kitchen island Ebony Maccassa but the schedule was slightly different in that the island bench is Ebony Maccassa but instead of the front (where the draws are and where the microwave and dish washer will be) it said Gloss white so i rang my colour lady and said we must of made a mistake and i pointed this out to her, and she said that she did this as she thought that this is what i wanted and that she had seen quite a few display houses done this way and this got me wondering do i want it this way? Or do i want the whole kitchen island the one colour?? Now i don't know, what do you guys think?

Good News!!

I just received a call from my conveyancer telling me that she has received a fax advising her that she should be contacted very soon for registration on our stage :) This is great news, never no may settle late Feb!!

Update on the Overlay

Since last time i posted, other then going a little Crazy, not much has happened in moving forward with this planning permit because..

1. The block is not yet in our name (as we haven't titled) just makes it a little harder to apply for the planning permit, I had to get in contact with The Avenue about getting them to sign the permit paper work to say the block is in there name atm, (Which they didn't seem to want to do at all) I spoke with Jill at the Avenue and after a few days of waiting she got back to me and told me that they would not be tittling stage 12 unless they were able to get a release on the overlay from Melbourne water for the whole estate(meaning we wouldn't be in need of a permit), I'm guessing this is because it runs right through every block in stage 12, and she advised that this should be happening any day now and that i should not bother lodging my own application because it would be pointless, but after getting this information i decided i would speak to the Casey council to see what there advise would be for me, as i wasn't sure what Jill was telling me was right, and they told me that they would have no idea when the overruling would come through and either would the Avenue, it could be anytime in the next 6 months (although and am starting to get a feeling that the council tends to exaggerate time periods), they advised me to lodge the application anyway and if it was cleared when the land titled i would be safe either way.

2. Metricon were now in the process of getting my new plans drawn up for me, to include the overlay but because you have to have the level surveys on the land done for the permit application plans, they had to send the surveyor's out to the block to do this, which they then did but because the land isn't completely subdivided yet, and there are no pegs in also the land hasn't be completely cleared yet (we have a huge pile of dirt right on our block) the surveys were unable to do the levels, Kate(CSC) sent me through an email saying that subdivision should be finished in the next 2 weeks (hmmm...) and then they will be able to do the levels and get the plans drawn up.

3. I had my conveyancer get the updated title ( needed to be in the last 30 days)  for the Avenue because that is what i will need to apply for my permit, which she was able to do so i guess i have one thing done.

Basically i am just playing a waiting game now, hoping that the Avenue get this overrule for  the whole estate but if i not i will be doing my permit application as soon as the subdivision is finished, just to stay on the safe side.

Also we have been told that we should be titling in Feb now (pushed out another month) but oh well Feb isn't to bad, I have my fingers crossed for a March start.

Picture of our crossover and the pile of dirt sitting right on our land.

Overlay, Overload

About a month ago our fellow Avenuer Reinsey let us know that our block was also being effected by this "overlay" that is apparently in relation to a flood/water related issue, i contacted my CSC about it to find out what would be the process and weather it would effect our block and this morning i received my answer, It was a big fat YES, Not only do we know have to apply for a planning overlay through the council we will also occur cost and could have a 12-16 week wait till we can build :( which to make it 10 times worse it also means that we will go over our time that we have to start building with Metricon and will occur cost there too.
Reinsey what was the process for you guys and are you going to have to wait this 12-16 week period???