Council confirmation

After three weeks of a daily ritual of watching the Blacktown City Council website we were thrilled to see that we were finally approved! In fact after two weeks we were given "approval but not released" - one of the most frustrating times of limbo to be in and drove Doug to phone Council to find out what happened.
It was so exciting to be able to "spy" on our Neighbours and see what was going to be built along our street. We were surprised though that we never received anything formal about what was going to be built next to us - and in fact one neighbor was in and out of council before we were even close to investigating. I guess The Ponds has such strict guidelines that objections are unusual, but I still feel there should have been formal notification. The same is similar for the Day Care Centre that has gone in across the street. I remember when growing up in North Richmond a neighbor wanted to turn their house into a preschool and we were all given notice.
Interesting though it has helped us work out what happened to "Wattle 2" which was originally going to be released but then suddenly disappeared. This has been sold to Allworth who are going to build town houses along the strip in the name "Kallina by the Park". Movement on these has started with the properties being stacked out and their silt barrier being erected. Along with this our next door Neighbor has installed a pool and their slab looks ready to go any day now.
Everything is racing along and we are eagerly waiting to see our construction drawings so we can get to site!