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Demolition Hunters Hill and the question of how much comes down

Demolition Hunters Hill: more of the ground here sits under conservation mapping than in any council area we work in. That mapping covers 50.2% of the land, the largest share of the thirteen Sydney councils measured. It turns the live question into how much of the building may come down, not whether any of it may. The site visit and written quote cost nothing, and enquiries are answered within 24 hours on 0455 888 819.

Hunters Hill Council is the consent authority for a demolition at every address in Hunters Hill, postcode 2110. Super Demolition works here on house, garage and pool knockdowns, partial demolition, shop strip-outs and asbestos removal, holding a current Demolition Licence and Asbestos Removal Licence and working to Australian Standard 2601-2001. Site assessments and quotes are free.

Two suburbs share this postcode, and both answer to the same council

Postcode 2110 covers Hunters Hill and Woolwich, and nothing else. Both sit in the same council area, so there is no boundary to settle and no second authority to rule out.

What is not uniform is the mapping. Conservation areas are drawn as shapes on a map, and an edge can run between two houses on the same street. The council-wide figure is an average, not a description of your block, which falls either inside the mapping or outside it. Worth settling before anyone prices the work.

Hunters Hill

What has actually been lodged on these streets

The state’s planning registers hold 237 demolition applications at Hunters Hill addresses.

Of those, 172 went to the council and 65 through the private certifier route. Fifty-seven of the 65 were approved. The certificate route is genuinely in use here, which surprises owners told the mapping closes it everywhere. Next door it has: Woolwich carries one certificate application in the whole record, and it was rejected.

About a quarter of the applications sit with the erection of a new structure, and about one in five with alterations and additions instead, so a rear wing coming off is as ordinary as a cleared block. Either shape is our residential demolition service.

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30+Years Experience

The council can approve a demolition and still cut it back

On merit assessment the council weighs what should go and what should remain, and can consent subject to conditions keeping part of the building standing. One reported court decision carries this council’s name and turns on that exact point, the extent of demolition a consent should permit.

A heritage listing is not the test either. A local trust has publicly opposed a demolition here on the ground that the house was a valuable example of its style, though it was not on any list.

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Neither route is closed here, and that surprises people

New South Wales gives a demolition two ways through. A Complying Development Certificate is issued by an accredited private certifier against a fixed state code: meet every standard and it can issue, with nothing weighed on merit. Anything outside the code becomes a Development Application, which Hunters Hill Council assesses on merit, notifies where its controls require, and may approve with conditions or refuse.

 

What decides it is the land and the scope. Mapping, a heritage listing and the zoning open or close the certificate route. Scope counts too: a bare knockdown can qualify, one tied to a subdivision or a dual occupancy generally does not.

Super Demolition on this side of the water

Super Demolition is family owned and managed. Jack owns it and usually walks the block with you, with over 30 years behind the crews. The rating is 5.0 across 84 reviews. Ask any contractor to show you:

  • A current Demolition Licence and a current Asbestos Removal Licence
  • Staff and contractors complying with WorkCover requirements to Australian Standard 2601-2001

Asbestos comes out under our own licence through our asbestos removal service, so no second contractor turns up partway through. Shop and office work sits with our commercial demolition service. Call 0455 888 819.

The paperwork a block like this attracts, and who works through it

Approvals are where a demolition here stalls. Every item sits in the contract:

  • The DA lodged with Hunters Hill Council, or a CDC through a private certifier
  • Council notification, and written notice to the neighbours the controls require
  • WorkCover approval and a Work Method Statement for your address
  • Dial Before You Dig plans before anything breaks ground
  • Electrical, gas and phone or internet disconnections
  • Asbestos removed under licence, EPA approved NSW disposal, tipping dockets returned
  • The demolition clearance certificate at the end
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Why a written price waits on the scope your consent allows

Nothing here is priced off a floor area, and no rate can be read down a phone. What moves the number is what the building is made of, whether asbestos is in it, how an excavator and truck reach the frontage, how much of the structure stays, and how much material leaves. A partial demolition is not a proportion of a full one: the propping and making good are work in their own right.

So somebody stands on the site first, for nothing. The quote itemises the demolition, the approvals and the disposal. No hidden fees, no variations once you accept it, and we will beat any written quote you hold.

The other suburbs on this peninsula, and how they differ

A demolition in Woolwich is the extreme version: the mapping reaches effectively every numbered address there, and the register carries no approved complying development demolition at all. A demolition in Henley and a demolition in Huntleys Point answer to this council, but share a postcode with suburbs that do not. The same crews go across Northern Sydney.

What we get asked once the mapping comes up

We are told this might be approved and then cut back. Can a consent really do that?

Yes. A merit assessment settles extent as well as permission, so the consent can require part of the building to stay.

Our house is not on any heritage list. Does that put us in the clear?

Not on its own. The mapping applies to the land, so a block can fall inside it while nothing is recorded against the house.

The house next door came down completely. Must we keep part of ours?

Not necessarily. A mapping edge can stop at your boundary, and what you propose to put back changes the assessment.

What is at Nelson Parade and Pulpit Point, and does it reach the rest of the suburb?

Those are the two contaminated land notices recorded for this council area, over foreshore land and a former oil terminal, both in Hunters Hill rather than the suburbs around it. Most streets are nowhere near either, but where ground has a history it changes what gets tested and where spoil goes.

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    Two things decide a demolition here: what the map draws over your block, and how much of the building you are asking to remove. Send us the street number and what you plan to put back, and someone will stand on it for nothing and name the route. Call 0455 888 819 or email info@superdemolition.com.au.