Three things you can hold in your hands.
Options to compare
Different ways to use, renovate or develop your property, shaped by what you are actually trying to achieve — not one scheme presented as the only answer.
Consequences to understand
For each option: the planning controls that apply, the building-code considerations, the likely approval pathway, indicative costs and what it will mean on site.
A future to experience
The developed option, built as a 3D model you can walk through — followed by our recommendation and the checks you would need before the next step.
It starts with a Feasibility Study.
Before anyone draws anything, we find out what the property can actually carry and what it will take to get there. This is the stage most people skip, and it is the stage that decides whether the rest of the project goes smoothly or goes sideways.
Two to three business days. Fixed scope, fixed fee, a written report and a call.
The site as it stands. The land, the existing building, the levels, the orientation, and what is actually there rather than what the title says.
Zoning and the controls that apply. The LEP and DCP, heritage, flood, bushfire, easements and the 10.7 planning certificate, read together rather than one at a time.
Any existing unapproved work, identified. Before it becomes a problem at sale, at finance, or at occupation certificate.
Two or three realistic directions. Not one scheme presented as the only answer — a renovation against a rebuild, a second dwelling against a second storey, keeping the use against changing it.
The approval pathway for each direction. DA, CDC, building information certificate or change of use — and what each one costs you in time and in risk.
Building classification and the code items that will bite. Assessed by a registered NSW Design Practitioner for Building Design, Class 2 and 3.
Indicative construction cost, option against option. There to compare the options with each other, not to quote from.
Which consultants the project will need, and roughly when. So the budget is not ambushed later by six things nobody mentioned.
What is still unknown, named as unknown. The things that need a survey, a report or a council conversation before anyone can be certain.
A written report you can hand to a builder, a broker, a partner or a council officer — and a call with Fred to walk through it and answer what it raises.
A fixed fee for a defined scope, quoted once we have the address and what you are trying to do. Not an hourly rate, and not a number that moves after you have committed.
Two to three business days from the point we have the address and your brief. Not a fortnight, and not “we will let you know”.
Not council approval, not a 10.7 planning certificate, and not a builder's quote. It tells you which pathway gives you the best chance and what will be argued against you.
One property, moving through five steps.
Steps 1, 2, 3 and 5 are the Feasibility Study above. Step 4, the 3D walk-through, is agreed separately and only if you want it — plenty of clients decide on the strength of the report alone.
The existing site
The property as it stands: the land, the building on it, the zoning and controls, the constraints nobody has mentioned yet, and your goals for it.
Alternative concepts
Two or three realistic directions, not one. A renovation against a knockdown. A second dwelling against a second storey. Keeping the use against changing it.
Budget and constraint comparison
Each concept measured against the same things: approval pathway, planning and code risk, indicative cost, and how hard it will be to build. Side by side, so the trade-offs are visible.
The 3D walk-through
The strongest concept developed into a full building model. You move through the rooms, see the light, understand the levels — and we find the clashes on screen instead of on site.
The recommendation
Fred explains which option he would back and why, what could still stand in its way, and exactly which checks come next. In writing, and in person.
Screen. Rehearse. Commit.
Property Atlas
A preliminary read on what a property might support, so you can decide whether a rehearsal is worth running. Preliminary information only, reviewed by us before anyone relies on it. Run the free check.
Feasibility Study
The first paid stage, and for most projects the only one needed before design begins. Fixed scope, fixed fee. The 3D walk-through is agreed separately afterwards if you want it.
Design and approval
Only for the option you chose. Design documentation, declaration where Class 2 or 3 applies, and the approval pathway the rehearsal identified. How we charge.
Anyone about to spend real money on a property decision.
A homeowner weighing a renovation against a rebuild. A buyer choosing between two houses on the strength of what each could become. An investor or developer comparing sites. An operator — childcare, group home, medical — who needs to reject unsuitable properties before spending on consultants and negotiations. A builder whose client cannot decide.
In every case the rehearsal costs a fraction of getting it wrong, and it produces the one thing a quote or a feasibility report cannot: a decision you have already lived in.
Real pathways, real controls, real numbers. Not a guarantee.
A rehearsal is grounded in the actual planning controls for your property and the actual approval pathway that would apply. It is prepared by a registered NSW Design Practitioner for Building Design, Class 2 and 3. It is not a sketch exercise.
It is also not council approval, not a Section 10.7 planning certificate, and not a builder's quote. The costs in it are indicative and exist to compare options against each other. Approval comes from council or a certifier, and nobody can guarantee it — we tell you which pathway gives you the best chance and what will be argued against you.
Questions about Property Rehearsal.
Can I just do the Feasibility Study?
How long does a rehearsal take?
Do I have to go ahead with the design afterwards?
Can I bring a property I don't own yet?
What do you need from me to start?
Book your Property Rehearsal.
Send the address and what you are considering. We will tell you whether a rehearsal is worth running, and what it would involve.