Surveyors in Burwood

Burwood is steadily replacing single post-war houses with townhouses and student accommodation, and almost every one of those projects starts with a subdivision plan and a boundary that needs proving.

Steady infill, driven by the university and the highway

Two things shape development in Burwood. Deakin University's campus creates constant demand for higher density housing within walking distance, and the Burwood Highway corridor carries the commercial and mixed use development. Between them sit streets of 1950s and 60s houses on blocks large enough to take three or four dwellings.

The result is a suburb where subdivision is the bread and butter, and where the difference between a three lot and a four lot outcome often comes down to a few hundred millimetres of boundary.

Survey work on a Burwood site

Title re-establishment first. Burwood's older subdivisions have fences that have drifted over seventy years. We recover the boundary from the original plan and mark it, so your architect designs to the title line rather than to a fence someone replaced in 1994. See title re-establishment.

Unit and townhouse subdivision. We prepare the plan of subdivision, coordinate Whitehorse Council and the service authorities, lodge through SPEAR and manage it to registration. Where the development includes shared driveways, walls or services, the owners corporation arrangements are set up at the same time.

Feature and level surveys. Burwood sites fall away toward Gardiners Creek in places, and drainage design depends on real levels rather than assumed ones. Our feature and level surveys capture terrain, existing structures, services and protected vegetation.

Construction set out. Once the permit is issued we set out footings, walls, driveways and drainage to the endorsed plans. On a four unit site with minimum setbacks there is no spare tolerance, so accurate set out is what keeps the build inside its approval.

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