Surveyors in Glen Waverley

Most of our Glen Waverley work starts the same way: a large post-war block, a plan to put two or three townhouses on it, and a need to know exactly where the boundaries sit before anyone commits.

Redevelopment territory, and the boundaries are rarely where people assume

Glen Waverley was subdivided into generous quarter-acre blocks through the 1950s and 60s, and those blocks are now the most redeveloped in the City of Monash. A single 700 square metre lot routinely becomes two or three townhouses. That makes it one of the busiest suburbs we work in for subdivision and title re-establishment.

The catch is that seventy years of fences, retaining walls and garden beds have drifted. Original pegs are long gone. On older Glen Waverley streets we regularly find the occupied line sitting a few hundred millimetres off the title line, which is enough to change how many dwellings fit on a site, or whether a proposed wall clears a setback.

Finding that out before you lodge a planning application is considerably cheaper than finding out after.

Survey work that suits a Glen Waverley site

Title re-establishment. We recover the true boundary from the original plan of subdivision and mark it on the ground. On the school-zone streets around Glen Waverley Secondary College, where land value per square metre justifies arguing over a small strip, this is usually the first thing worth doing.

Unit and townhouse subdivision. We prepare the plan of subdivision, deal with Monash Council and the service authorities, lodge through SPEAR and see it through to registration at Land Use Victoria. Most Glen Waverley jobs are two to four lot developments, and the common property and owners corporation arrangements matter as much as the boundary work. See owners corporation and stratum subdivision if the development goes vertical.

Feature and level surveys. Glen Waverley blocks slope more than people expect, particularly north of High Street Road toward the Dandenong Creek catchment. Your architect and drainage engineer need real levels, existing structures and the mature trees that sit under Monash's vegetation controls. A feature and level survey gives them all three.

Construction set out. Once approvals are through, we set out the footings, walls and drainage so the built form matches the endorsed plans. Tight side setbacks on a battleaxe block leave very little tolerance, so this is worth doing properly. See construction set out.

We also handle boundary disputes and easement surveys, both of which come up often on the older Glen Waverley subdivisions where drainage easements run through back gardens.

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