PO Box 930 Revesby New South Wales (NSW) 2213
PO Box 930 Revesby New South Wales (NSW) 2213
PO Box 930 Revesby New South Wales (NSW) 2213
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Hunters Hill Council assesses a demolition in Henley, though the suburb shares postcode 2111 with neighbours that answer to Ryde instead. Super Demolition works here on houses, garages, pools, slabs and shop strip-outs, holding a current Demolition Licence and Asbestos Removal Licence and working to Australian Standard 2601-2001 under WorkCover requirements. The site assessment and the written quote both cost nothing.
Postcode 2111 covers Henley along with Gladesville, Huntleys Cove, Huntleys Point and Tennyson Point. For mail that is one area. For planning it is two. Henley and Huntleys Point are assessed by Hunters Hill Council, Tennyson Point answers to Ryde, and Gladesville is split between the pair. A knockdown a few minutes away can have gone through a different council, a different plan and a different register than yours will.
The gap is wide. In the state’s planning records for the Hunters Hill area, demolition shows up as 271 development applications against 73 complying development certificates. That puts the certificate at 21.2% of the pair. On the Ryde side of the same postcode the equivalent figure is 79.2%.
The reason sits on the map rather than at the counter. Conservation area mapping covers 50.2% of the land in this council area, more than any other council we work under, and conservation land goes to merit assessment. Of the demolitions this council assessed itself, 70.8% fell inside a conservation area, against 13.7% of the ones a private certifier signed.
What none of that settles is which side of the mapping your own block is on. A figure like that describes a council area, not a street, so we check the address itself before anyone commits to a route.
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Houses, garages, pools and slabs sit with our residential demolition service, where the full credentials are set out, and shop, office and warehouse work with our commercial demolition service.
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New South Wales gives a demolition two ways through. A Complying Development Certificate is issued by a private certifier against a fixed state code: meet every standard in it and the certificate 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.
Eligibility follows the land and the scope of the job, not how straightforward it looks from the footpath. Zoning, heritage listing and conservation area mapping are what open or close the certificate route, and this is the council area where that mapping bites hardest. Scope matters too: a bare knockdown often qualifies, while one bundled with a subdivision or a dual occupancy usually does not. Here, merit assessment is the ordinary outcome rather than the exception.
Nothing here gets priced off a floor area. What moves the number is what the building is made of, whether asbestos is in it, how an excavator and a truck reach the frontage, how much of the structure stays standing, and how much material leaves. A partial demolition with work continuing around it is a different job from a clear block.
So somebody stands on the site first, for nothing. The written quote itemises the demolition, the approvals and the disposal, with no hidden fees and no variations once accepted. If you already hold a written quote, we will beat it.
Approvals are where a demolition stalls, and they are the part an owner is otherwise left chasing alone:
The same crews and licences go across Northern Sydney. A demolition in Huntleys Point shares both the postcode and the assessing authority with yours. A demolition in Hunters Hill is where the council’s contaminated land notices are concentrated, which adds a step. A demolition in Woolwich is the extreme version: conservation mapping reaches effectively every numbered address there, and no demolition there has ever been approved as complying development.
More than the difference between their numbers. The lodgement, the notices, the disconnections and the clearance certificate are either inside the contract or yours to chase. Ask each contractor in writing which of those they carry.
No. It means the land or the proposal misses a standard in the code, which is a pass or fail test rather than a judgement about your plans. The job then goes to the council on merit, which is the route most demolition here takes anyway.
Both, though what happens on site depends more on what is around you. Work is carried out to Australian Standard 2601-2001, with a Work Method Statement written for your address setting out the order the structure comes down in and how neighbouring walls and fences are protected.
Because your postcode and theirs are the same and your councils are not. Gladesville sits mostly under Ryde, where roughly four in five demolitions go through a private certifier. Henley sits under Hunters Hill, where the proportion is close to the reverse, and the conservation mapping here is why. Their experience is a fair guide to their block and no guide to yours.
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Send us the street number and what you plan to put back, and someone will stand on the block for nothing. We will name the route before a form is lodged, then put the demolition in writing. Call 0455 888 819 or email info@superdemolition.com.au.
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