Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au What is a Minimum Lot Size and how does it affect dealings with land? Under the current format for Local Environmental Plans, much of the relevant information on land is shown in maps.
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au When marking a boundary for a registered plan, a surveyor must place “Reference Marks” which are located away from the actual boundary corner, with a stated bearing and distance to the boundary corner.
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au The final step with plans which need to be registered with Land and Property Information NSW is the plan lodgment and registration process. At Doherty Smith & Associates, we make every effort to
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au The start of the bushfire season for 2013 was a wake-up call for most Australians. Sydney was blanketed in smoke while 56,000 hectares of bushland in the Blue Mountains was reduced to ashes.
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au River and creek boundaries (non-tidal streams) are considered to be “Ambulatory” – the literal meaning of which is “relating to or adapted for walking”. This term serves a purpose, but the actual changes to
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au A surveyor is often asked some tricky questions. A common question we face is “Can I sell part of my land?” To answer this question, first you must establish whether your land consists
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Doherty Smith & Associates is now Compass Consulting Surveyors Click here to see this blog and more on our new website compasscs.com.au A Community Plan is a subdivision of a parcel of Real Property land into three or more separate lots. The first lot of the Community Scheme, Lot 1, is the Association Property. This
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