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Buying or Renovating a House in Brisbane in the Traditional Building Character Overlay

Buying or Renovating a House in Brisbane in the Traditional Building Character Overlay

The importance of preserving character houses has been identified by Brisbane City Council with measures enacted throughout the planning scheme to protect the citys traditional building character (TBC).

In this blog, our work experience student discusses what is Brisbane’s TBC, why it is important to the cultural identity of Brisbane and what you need to know if buying or renovating a house that has traditional building character.

4. Flood Assessment for Property Development

4. Flood Assessment for Property Development

Since the early 2000’s, overland flow has become an increasingly important constraint which has affected large scale developers, Mum and Dad investor/renovators, engineers, architects and certifiers.  This guest blog by Mark Gibson from MRG Water & Civil discusses a little more about the issue and how to understand the challenges and solutions in a Brisbane based setting.