There are many factors that contribute to successful Property Development, and a couple of very important key areas, which are Town Planning and Subdivision. In Victoria there is a framework called Res Code that is applied throughout all the different municipalities in Victoria. What a great majority of people don’t understand is that all areas and zonings have different guidelines on how to apply these set of rules that can affect the outcome of a their property development.

With many people experiencing for the first time the complexity of the Res Code and Local By – Laws, the frustration with the number of different responses to similar requests from various planning departments. This can lead to confusion and assumption and eventually leading to many people having negative outcomes on their projects, when all these variations just add confusion in most cases.
 
The secret to overcoming a poor experience is to engage a specialist Town Planning and Subdivision Company. With a number on offer, ranging from ‘cheap and basic’ to the ‘affordable complete’ type services like Property Subdivision. The challenge is to decide which company will provide you the most efficient and secure outcome. As the complexity of the system requires a full and complete knowledge of the forever-changing guidelines in Res –Code. Cheap and minimal services take the least amount of steps in hope they will scrape through the maze of requirements. In some cases this may be sufficient to get approval for Town Planning & Subdivision, but in most cases the Planning Permit is full of many extra conditions that the development will need to complete prior to getting final approval. These could have been avoided if these issues were addressed correctly prior to becoming in most cases expensive unnecessary steps on the Planning Permit. Another down side of using a cheap and minimal service is quite often total failure of the application with the company throwing their arms up in the air and leaving you, the client, with an unworkable application and a big fat bill!  On the other hand is the Affordable Complete service that is full familiar with all Res- code requirements and takes all the necessary steps to make sure that the application is approved with the minimum amount of conditions as possible on the Planning Permit.

Choosing the right company is a must!

As the responsibility of dealing with people's largest asset, should be taken very seriously. With the right company they will not only minimise their actual time input, but also maximise the outcome of their project. In the industry it is very difficult to find someone that is confident enough to give you a guaranteed outcome! It has been industry practice for many years and still is for nearly all of the companies on the market to engage your project with no assurance of an outcome. There is however one company in the market “ Property Subdivision” that will provide a guaranteed outcome if they take your project on board, with a 100% money back guarantee upon successfully completing your project.  Property Subdivision services were designed to take all the steps necessary to guarantee an outcome under a fixed and affordable price.

My question is, that if a company is happy enough to take your hard earned money and attempt to get a successful Planning Permit without a guarantee of an outcome.
The question should be. Will they provide a guarantee? If Not! Why not?  
 
Robert Lancaster
Property Subdivision Specialist Consultant