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Demolition Russell Lea: residential work, every time

Demolition Russell Lea owners call us about is residential work, every time. Super Demolition clears houses, garages, pools and slabs here under a current Demolition Licence and Asbestos Removal Licence, lodging the approval with the City of Canada Bay or a private certifier. The postcode is 2046. Site visits and written quotes cost nothing.

Nothing comes down here that was not somebody’s house

On the state planning maps, 88.2% of Russell Lea is zoned R2 low density residential and a further 9.2% is R3. There is no industrial land in the suburb at all: no factory, warehouse or yard to clear.

The record agrees. The NSW Planning Portal holds 113 demolition applications for this suburb under the City of Canada Bay, and not one is a shop, a warehouse or a factory. They are houses, dual occupancies, garages and pools.

So the work is the knockdown and rebuild and its variations. A full demolition takes the house, garage, sheds, fencing, paving and slab, with the pool filled or dug out and the block left level. A partial one takes a rear wing or upper floor while the rest stays standing. Strip-outs run on the same licences and are what our commercial demolition service is for. Where old linings or sheds hold bonded sheeting, it comes out under our own licence, and our asbestos removal service covers how that is documented.

Russell Lea

The one address that shows how a block gets cleared here

Burnell Street carries more demolition records than any other street here, 22 of the 113 the portal holds. One address on it tells the story.

The Canada Bay register carries five applications at 27 Burnell Street. One to demolish the house and build a new one lapsed without being acted on. A second attempt at that combination, years later, was refused. The clearing that finally happened went through as a privately issued complying development certificate for demolition of the existing structures including the dwelling house. The new dwelling was approved after it.

None of it is our job. The lesson holds for your block: the scope you lodge decides the route, and a demolition put up on its own is simpler to approve than one carrying a new house behind it.

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Super Demolition, and the licences the work runs on

Jack owns the business and usually comes out to walk the block with you. Super Demolition is family owned and managed, with over 30 years behind the work. The rating is 5.0 from 84 reviews.

Two licences carry the job: a current Demolition Licence and a current Asbestos Removal Licence. Our staff and contractors meet WorkCover requirements to Australian Standard 2601-2001, and your Work Method Statement is written on it. The rest of the credentials sit with our residential demolition service.

The assessment and the written quote are free and commit you to nothing, and every enquiry is answered within 24 hours. Call 0455 888 819 with the address.

Russell Lea
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Two routes to a consent, and what decides which one you get

A complying development certificate is issued by a private certifier against a fixed code. Nothing is weighed up: the land and the proposal either meet every standard in it or they do not. A development application goes to the City of Canada Bay instead, assessed on merit, with neighbours notified where its controls require it.

What closes the certificate route is the land and the scope, not how modest the house looks from the footpath. Heritage listing or conservation area mapping under the Canada Bay Local Environmental Plan 2013, ground with a history, or a subdivision bolted onto the demolition all send it to council. A standalone knockdown on unconstrained land commonly qualifies, and that is the route most clearing here takes.

Exactly one demolition application on the local register is a modification of a consent already granted. Scope gets settled before it is lodged.

The filing, the notices and the disconnections

None of this is yours to chase:

  • The certificate through a private certifier, or the application to the City of Canada Bay
  • Council notification, and written notice to affected neighbours
  • WorkCover approval and a Work Method Statement for your address
  • Dial Before You Dig plans before anything breaks ground
  • Electrical, gas, phone and internet disconnections
  • Asbestos taken under licence to an approved tipping facility with dockets, and clean material to an EPA approved recycling yard
  • The demolition clearance certificate at completion

The only part needing you is a signature.

Russell Lea

What we need to see before the figure is written down

Nobody can price this from a photograph and a lot size, and a square metre rate is the least dependable version of that guess.

What moves the number: what the building is made of, how much is staying, whether asbestos is present and where, the paving and slab on the block, truck access to the back of it, and how much can be recycled rather than tipped.

The assessment is free. The quote is written and itemised across the works, the approvals and the disposal: no hidden fees, no variations. Bring us a written quote from another contractor and we will beat it.

More of the City of Canada Bay we cover

The same crews and paperwork cover demolition in Wareemba, demolition in Drummoyne and demolition in Breakfast Point under this council, and we work across Inner West Sydney.

Questions Russell Lea owners ask before the machines come

We want the house gone now and the new one designed later. Can the demolition go in on its own?

Yes, and a fair number of the applications here do exactly that, with no rebuild named in them. Clearing a block is a scope in its own right, it still needs consent, and alone it leaves the least to assess.

Burnell Street keeps coming up when we look at what has been demolished nearby. Does that tell us anything about our block?

Only where the rebuilding has been busiest. That follows the blocks and owners along the road, not any rule attached to it. Yours is read off your own lot and what you propose to put back.

The house is going but the garage at the back is staying. Is that a smaller job or a fiddlier one?

Fiddlier, and better said at the site visit than afterwards. Anything staying must be supported, kept weathertight and protected while the rest comes out, so the sequence changes. It is still one contract and one quote.

A post going round names this suburb as one where a foreshore building line applies. Are we caught by it?

No. It is a real control with a real map, and that map does not reach Russell Lea. Nothing here sits behind a foreshore building line, so it is not one of the things that send a demolition to a council planner. Articles listing affected suburbs are not the map. We read the mapping over your own lot first.

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    Russell Lea gives you a clean start: one council for every address, a record with nothing in it but houses, and a certificate route open on most ordinary blocks. What is left is your lot, your scope and the asbestos. Call 0455 888 819 or email info@superdemolition.com.au.