Every demolition Lane Cove West puts on the public record goes to one authority, so the question that eats up time in the suburbs next door does not exist here. Lane Cove Municipal Council assesses 100% of the suburb by land area. What separates one job from the next is not who signs it off. It is whether your building is a house on a residential street or a warehouse on Mars Road.
In Lane Cove West, postcode 2066, Super Demolition takes down houses, garages, sheds and pools, strips out warehouses and offices, removes asbestos under licence and clears the block for rebuilding. We hold a current Demolition Licence and a current Asbestos Removal Licence, work to Australian Standard 2601-2001, and lodge the approval with Lane Cove Municipal Council or through a private certifier. Site assessments and written quotes are free.
Lane Cove West sits wholly inside Lane Cove Municipal Council, tested against the local government boundary. Send us any street here and the answer comes back the same.
The postcode is the misleading part. 2066 also covers Lane Cove and Lane Cove North, so it marks a delivery run rather than a planning area, and a control you have read about under one of those names may have nothing to do with your block. Council boundaries do cut suburbs in two around here. They do it under a different suburb name, not this one.
Filter the Lane Cove Municipal Council registers on the NSW Planning Portal down to entries carrying both a demolition and this suburb’s name, and you get 12 development applications and 27 complying development certificates. None of them are ours. They are the public record of what has been approved here, and they fall into two piles that barely touch.
The certificates sit almost entirely on the residential grid: Penrose Street, Barwon Road, Hallam Avenue, Yethonga Avenue, Wood Street, Centennial Avenue, Henley Street. Houses, secondary dwellings, pools, decks and additions, mostly signed off by a private certifier rather than by anyone at the council.
Mars Road is the other pile. Demolition there arrives bundled with a warehouse, a distribution centre or business premises rather than with a dwelling, and one address appears three times over: a certificate withdrawn, the same scope approved afterwards, a separate one for business premises later. Work like that is staged around whoever is still trading either side of you. It runs through our commercial demolition service.
The applications hold the awkward jobs. A rejected proposal on Barwon Road came back and was determined on a later lodgement. Others were settled by council staff under delegated authority, and one Mars Road demolition went in front of the local planning panel.
Jack owns the business and is usually the person who meets you on site, with over 30 years of demolition behind him. The company is family owned and managed, and carries a 5.0 rating across 84 reviews.
Before you accept anybody’s quote, ask to see:
The full credentials, and the order a house comes off a block, sit with our residential demolition service.
The site assessment and the written quote both cost nothing, and every enquiry is answered within 24 hours. Call 0455 888 819 and we will put a time in the diary.
NSW gives a demolition two routes. A Complying Development Certificate is issued by an accredited private certifier against fixed state standards, with nothing weighed on merit: meet every standard and it can issue. A Development Application goes to Lane Cove Municipal Council, which assesses it on merit, notifies neighbours where the controls require it, and can approve with conditions or refuse.
Which one is open to you follows the mapping over your own lot and the scope you are asking for, never preference. Zoning, heritage listing and conservation mapping open or close the certificate route, and so does scope: a standalone knockdown commonly qualifies, while a demolition tied to a subdivision, a second dwelling or a new industrial building goes to merit assessment. Both routes run live inside this one boundary.
Approvals are where a demolition stalls, and the part an owner is otherwise left chasing alone. All of it sits inside the contract:
A brick and tile house on Yethonga Avenue and a steel framed unit off Apollo Place are nothing alike to take down, and neither can be priced down the phone. What moves it is what the structure is made of, whether asbestos is present, how machines and trucks get on and off, and how much material has to leave.
So somebody stands on the block first. The assessment is free, the written quote itemises the work, the approvals and the disposal, and nothing is added afterwards. Hold a written quote from another contractor and we will beat it.
The same crews, licences and machines work across Northern Sydney, taking in demolition in North Sydney, demolition in Neutral Bay and demolition in Mosman. We own our plant, down to the truck that shifts it between sites, so your start date is not sitting in a hire company’s queue.
No. It tells you the certificate path is well worn on the residential streets and nothing more. Eligibility is read off your own lot and your own scope, which is why two houses on one street can go different ways.
Not on its own. A refusal is a decision about one proposal, not a mark against the land, and this suburb has an address where exactly that happened before a later lodgement on the same block was determined. What counts is what changed in between.
Usually something missing rather than something wrong with the demolition: a survey, a report, a consent from an adjoining owner, or a scope that has drifted past what the code allows. Certificates get withdrawn and lodged again for the same reason. We would rather lodge complete than lodge early.
Sometimes a real saving. Shared access, one set of hoarding and traffic control, one mobilisation of plant instead of two. The approvals stay separate, because each lot is judged on its own, but the work on the ground can be sequenced together.
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Lane Cove West asks a demolisher one question the suburbs around it do not: which half of the suburb is this. A house on Penrose Street and a warehouse on Mars Road answer to the same council and have almost nothing else in common. Tell us the address and what you want gone, and somebody will come and look at it before a number goes on anything. Call 0455 888 819 or email info@superdemolition.com.au.