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12-08-2026
Modular, Transportable or Relocatable? Which One You Are Buying Shapes the Approval Path in SA
Three words the market uses interchangeably mean different things to an assessing authority. What really shapes the consent path for a factory-built home.
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12-08-2026
Can a Module Actually Reach Your Block? Access, Craneage and Module Size on an Adelaide Site
A module is trucked in and craned down. What decides whether that works on your Adelaide block: the route, the frontage, overhead lines and set-down.
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07-08-2026
The Native Vegetation Act Is Set to Be Repealed: Where Should Clearance Sit in Your Subdivision Program?
The Biodiversity Act 2025 will replace the Native Vegetation Act 1991 on a day set by proclamation. What the unsettled timing means for clearance work.
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07-08-2026
The Affordable Housing Obligation Riding With an SA Rezoning: How to Price It Into Your Bid
How an affordable housing obligation on rezoned SA land bears on what a buyer can pay: the instruments, the counting rules, and the bid formula.
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06-08-2026
The Fence Is Not the Boundary: What a Surveyor's Pegs Can Do to an Adelaide Subdivision Plan
Why an identification survey belongs before you draw division lines in Adelaide, and how a fence-to-title difference reaches area, frontage and setback.
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06-08-2026
Barossa and McLaren Vale: Which Side of the Character Preservation District Line Is Your Land On?
In the Barossa and McLaren Vale Character Preservation Districts, the limit on new allotments outside the townships comes from two Acts, not the Code.
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05-08-2026
The Kerb, the Crossover and the Bond: Reading the Infrastructure Conditions on Your Land Division Approval
What an SA land division approval commits you to build and hand over — kerb, crossover, reinstatement — and how the security over it is released.
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05-08-2026
Uncontrolled Fill and Class P Sites in Adelaide: What to Compare Before You Brief the Geotechnical Engineer
How to compare aerial imagery and site levels for signs your Adelaide block was filled, what a Class P classification means, and where boreholes go.
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04-08-2026
How to Price a Delay in a South Australian Land Division
Turn extra months in an SA land division into a number: costs that accrue monthly, costs that step at the financial year line, and who supplies each.
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04-08-2026
Delegated Officer or Council Assessment Panel? How to Find Out — and What to Do When Your SA Land Division Application Has Stalled
Your SA land division application has gone quiet. Who is deciding it, why the panel queue moves differently, and the escalation steps open to you.
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03-08-2026
Subdividing Land Without a Sewer Connection in SA: Which Approval Track Is Your Block On?
On unsewered SA land, minimum allotment size is measured, not looked up. How to work out which approval track your block is on, and who decides it.
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03-08-2026
Downsizing With a Big Block in South Australia? What the Downsizing Stamp Duty Relief Could Mean for the Order You Sell, Build and Move
Could SA's downsizing stamp duty relief shape the order you sell, build and move? What the published conditions raise, and who confirms each date.
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