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Demolition Pennant Hills: what you lodge beside it decides the route

Six standalone knockdowns on the public record here went to a private certifier and came back marked Certificate Registered. Bolt a dual occupancy or a subdivision on and the pattern reverses. Hornsby Shire Council returned the applications at 21 Shields Lane and 22 Yarrara Road. It returned a Pennant Hills Road address twice over, and a further lodgement there is still awaiting information. None are our jobs. But the first decision on a demolition in Pennant Hills is not about machinery. It is about what else is on the form.

Super Demolition is a family owned and managed demolition contractor working in Pennant Hills, postcode 2120, where Hornsby Shire Council is the consent authority for every address. We take down houses, garages, sheds, pools, slabs and commercial fitouts, and remove asbestos under our own licence. We hold a current Demolition Licence and a current Asbestos Removal Licence and work to Australian Standard 2601-2001. Phone 0455 888 819.

Two outcomes on one council register, and what separates them

Pennant Hills sits wholly inside Hornsby Shire: tested point by point, all 3,247 address points in the suburb fall inside that single local government area. Worth saying plainly, because the suburb immediately west of it does not: West Pennant Hills is divided between The Hills Shire and Hornsby, and its owners carry a council question yours do not.

That leaves the approval pathway as the only real variable, and the register shows it cleanly. Bare knockdowns of a single dwelling, at addresses on Vaughan Avenue, Trebor Road, Laurence Street, Lois Lane and Werona Street, ran as complying development and were registered by certifiers.

The ones that stalled all carried something extra alongside the demolition. The same shape runs through the Hornsby register at demolition in North Epping.

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Super Demolition, and what sits behind the two licences

Jack owns the business and usually comes out to look at the property himself. Behind him sit over 30 years of demolition and asbestos experience in a family owned and managed company, working under a current Demolition Licence and Asbestos Removal Licence and complying with WorkCover requirements to Australian Standard 2601-2001, with fuller credentials on our residential demolition service.

Site assessments and written quotes are free, and every enquiry gets an answer within 24 hours. Call 0455 888 819 and we will book a time to walk the block.

Pennant Hills
30+Years Experience

What decides whether a certifier or Hornsby reads your application

A Complying Development Certificate is issued by an accredited private certifier rather than council, and only where a proposal meets a fixed set of state standards in full. Nothing is weighed on merit. A Development Application goes to Hornsby Shire Council, which assesses it on merit, notifies who must be notified, and decides.

Hornsby is a genuinely mixed area for this, so neither route is the odd one out: across the council’s demolition records the certificate share sits at 45.6%. What closes that route is a proposal stepping outside the standards, whether a subdivision or dual occupancy bundled in, a heritage item, or land inside a conservation area. Hornsby maps 93 heritage features under clause 5.10 of its local environmental plan, including The Crescent, Pennant Hills Heritage Conservation Area. Coverage across the shire is low, at 1.2% of its land area.

Pennant Hills
FamilyOwned & Managed

From the slab up, or only the part you are replacing

A knockdown ahead of a rebuild takes the house and everything around it: garage, shed, carport, pergola, fencing, driveway, paving, footings and the slab, with the pool filled or dug out. Partial work is just as common here, taking off a rear section or an upper storey while the front stays liveable. Shop and office tenancies run through our commercial demolition service.

Asbestos surfaces in houses of a certain age as sheeting, backing board and old floor tiles. It stays on the same contract through our asbestos removal service, taken out by our own crews under our own licence and carted to an approved facility.

Nothing moves until these are signed, served or switched off

  • The certificate lodged with a private certifier, or the development application lodged with Hornsby Shire Council
  • Council notification, and written notice to the neighbours the work affects
  • WorkCover approval and a Work Method Statement written for your address
  • Dial Before You Dig plans before anything breaks ground
  • Electrical, gas and phone or internet disconnections booked with each provider
  • Waste sorted and taken to EPA approved NSW recycling and disposal facilities
  • The demolition clearance certificate at completion

All of it is quoted in, and none of it is left with you to chase.

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Where the money goes on a demolition like this

A number over the phone would be a guess, and a rate per square metre is the same guess with a unit attached, so we quote neither. What moves the figure is the building: how it is built, how much is coming down, whether asbestos is confirmed, and how plant gets in and out. The approval route sits in there too.

So someone stands on the block first. The assessment is free, the written quote itemises the work, the approvals and the timeline, and that is what you pay: no hidden fees, no variations later. Already holding a written quote? We will beat it.

More of the Hornsby register we work

The same crews cover demolition in Cherrybrook and demolition in Beecroft on that register, and the rest of our work across Northern Sydney.

Questions we get once the builder has given a date

Thornleigh and Westleigh share my postcode. Does that change who assesses my job?

No. Postcode 2120 covers all three, so it cannot confirm the suburb. It makes no difference to the approval: Hornsby Shire Council is the consent authority across the lot.

Our application came back marked Returned. Is that the same as being refused?

No. Returned means it was not accepted for assessment as lodged, usually because information is missing or the proposal does not belong in the route it was filed under. It can be corrected and relodged, and the local record shows exactly that.

We want a dual occupancy on the block afterwards. Does that go in with the demolition or separately?

That is the decision worth advice on before anything is lodged. Bundled into one application, the demolition is assessed on merit alongside the development, and the returned applications here are almost all that shape. Kept separate, a straight knockdown can often still take the certificate route on its own.

We are inside The Crescent conservation area. Does that close the certificate route?

It generally does, and sends the job to Hornsby on merit. The conservation area is mapped under clause 5.10 of the local environmental plan, and we check your address against that mapping rather than the streetscape.

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    Every address in Pennant Hills answers to the same council, so the question here was never whose counter to walk up to. It is what sits on the form beside the word demolition. Tell us what is standing and what you want on the block afterwards, and we will tell you which route your job belongs in. Call 0455 888 819 or email info@superdemolition.com.au.