Northern Beaches · Northern Beaches Council
Residential architect in Elanora Heights
Elanora Heights sits on a quiet ridge between Narrabeen and the Ingleside escarpment, with generous blocks and a bush setting. Our project here is a family home extension designed to add the rooms the family needs without losing the backyard the kids already own.
What we do in Elanora Heights
The work that comes up most in Elanora Heights and the streets around it.
Explore services- Extensions for growing families
- Second storey additions
- New homes on larger lots
- Bushfire-aware design
- DA and CDC lodgement
- Northern Beaches Council assesses homes here against the planning controls for the former Pittwater area, with a building height limit commonly of 8.5 metres.
- Much of the area is mapped as bushfire prone land, which sets the construction standard (the BAL rating) for new work and can shape the materials.
- Many blocks fall away from the street, so an extension often goes down the slope or up a level rather than out into the garden.
- The Property Study confirms the controls for your exact address, and whether a CDC is possible or a DA is needed, before you spend on drawings.
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Questions people ask in Elanora Heights
All questionsCan we extend without losing the garden?
That is the brief we are designing to here now. Going up, or tucking new rooms under the existing house on a sloping block, often keeps the backyard intact.
Can I use a CDC here, or do I need a DA?
It depends on the zone and on overlays such as bushfire, slope, flooding and heritage, which rule many Pittwater sites out of complying development. The Property Study answers it for your address before any drawing starts.
Can the work be done in stages?
Yes. We plan the whole home first, then lodge and build it in the order your budget and your family need, so each stage is approved and nothing has to be undone later.
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Starting a project in Elanora Heights?
A free Property Report maps the zoning, height limits, FSR, heritage overlays and hazards for your address.