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28-07-2026

Same Size, Same Zone, Different Answer: How a Block’s Shape and Orientation Decide What Fits

Battle-axe, corner, narrow and north-facing: how a block’s shape and aspect decide how many homes fit, and what to test before you buy or sell.

27-07-2026

Sequencing a Multi-Lot Sell-Down in South Australia: The Gates Between Deposit of Plan, the Form 1 and Every Settlement

Selling subdivided lots one settlement at a time: the gates between deposit of plan, Form 1, clearance certificates and the day your facility has to be retired.

26-07-2026

Why You Cannot Rezone Your Way Out of an Environment and Food Production Area: The Restriction Does Not Live in the Code

A Code Amendment changes the Planning and Design Code, but an EFPA is a designation under the Act — which is why a rezoning does not reach it.

26-07-2026

Selling With Your Neighbours in Adelaide: Splitting the Price Between Titles, and What Happens If One Owner Pulls Out

Three neighbours, one developer, one offer. How Adelaide owners divide an assembly premium, what one-out-all-out linkage costs, and how a holdout is handled.

26-07-2026

Your Land Is Inside an SA Infrastructure Scheme: What It Decides, and When You Actually Get a Say

A scheme is being written over your South Australian growth-area land: what it settles, where owners still get a say, and why the staging sets your timing.

25-07-2026

A Developer Wants an Option on Your Land, Not a Contract of Sale: What You Are Actually Being Paid For

A developer wants an option over your South Australian land, not a contract. What a call or put and call deed ties up, and what the option fee actually pays for.

25-07-2026

Encumbrances and Land Management Agreements in an SA Land Division: The Title Instruments That Can Stop New Titles Issuing

Approval granted but titles not issuing? How estate encumbrances and Land Management Agreements on a South Australian title can hold up a plan of division.

25-07-2026

Subdividing on an Adelaide Arterial Road: The Commissioner of Highways Referral That Decides Your Access

Your Adelaide block fronts a main road. Why the highways referral, not the zone, often decides how many allotments and where the cars get in and out.

25-07-2026

Refused in South Australia: A Landowner's Framework for Choosing Between a Review, an Appeal, Amending and Selling

Your South Australian development application was refused. What a panel review, an ERD Court appeal, amending and relodging, or selling each spends.

25-07-2026

Build It, Sell It, Do It Again: The South Australian Licensing Rule That Can Make a Landowner a Building Work Contractor

Planning to build two on an Adelaide block and sell one? What South Australian builder licensing and building indemnity insurance can mean for landowners.

25-07-2026

Which Way Does Your Block Fall? Legal Point of Discharge, Detention, and Why Stormwater Sets Your Floor Levels in SA Infill

Before asking whether you need a detention tank, ask your council for the level your Adelaide site may lawfully discharge to. It sets the floor levels.

25-07-2026

Can the House Come Down? Historic Area and Character Area Overlays in Inner Adelaide, and What Each One Actually Controls

Historic Area or Character Area? Which overlay sits on your inner-ring Adelaide title decides whether demolition is assessed at all, and where risk sits.