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Now the designers know what they’re dealing with for the bushfire requirements they can get on with designing a suitable house.
In the meantime we’ve got a permit to clear the trees in the Building Location Envelope (BLE) so we’ll be ready to start once the plans have gone through council. After half a day of chainsawing we can to the realisation that we should have just got some heavy machinery in to do their thing.
Oh well! There’s pleanty of trees to bring down.
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