Why Choose Us

You only need to search the Internet for “Granny Flat Approvals” and you will find that the Founder, Serge Panayi, is intimately involved with all aspects of building approvals across Sydney and NSW. Serge Panayi’s team has been designing and submitting Building Approvals for over three decades now, not only for residential projects but also for commercial and industrial developments. A vital skill needed in attaining building approvals is knowing how to circumvent a few ‘landmines’ in order to save the client both time and money. This means creating clear and legible plans but it also means knowing the Building Code of Australia intimately plus all Australian Standards. It pays to keep up to date with all modern design solutions.

It also saves our clients money when we know how to avoid employing unnecessary ‘professionals’ wherever possible. An excellent example of this, is the creation of high-quality and accurate Site and Drainage Plans. When we measure our sites, we use Surveyors Total Stations costing thousands of dollars to measure the property, providing contoured & spot levels, vegetation detail, fencing detail, Paved and Concrete areas, clear and concise calculations and all other analyses of the property which help to support the entire development proposal. You’d have trouble distinguishing our site-plans from that of a registered or ‘detail survey’. This is because we have the experience and we take the time to ensure our plans are more than adequate to achieve fast and efficient granny flat approval, without delays and without errors. We also know how to satisfy the various Government regulations as it applies to drainage solutions, sewer mitigation strategies and efficient connection to services, to name just a few granny flat solutions.

Our experience has also taught us ways to save our clients thousands of dollars on Hydraulic Engineers, Registered Surveyors and Tree Arborists, to name just a few areas where other architectural services don’t have the knowledge and experience to avoid employing these practitioners- remember, it’s the client who has to pay these very expensive fees. We are also extremely apt at predicting where and when an issue will arise, so we work at resolving these issues prior to the approval process- this is so our clients save on unnecessary costs and time. It takes a lot of experience to fully protect a developer and our policy is to carefully and tentatively lead our clients through the approval mine-field, so that they are legally and financially protected from unnecessary hardship at all times.

No system is perfect and it often takes experienced and dedicated people, working within an industry to invoke change and positive innovation. We invite you to search out the experts in not only granny flat approvals but other facets of building and you will find that the Principal, Serge Panayi, is at the spearhead of many public cost-saving strategies, Department of Planning Workshops and various other lobby groups devoted to avoiding unnecessary Government Fees, such as Section-94 Contribution Levies imposed (by some Councils) on new secondary dwellings across NSW. Serge Panayi is an active contributor in various online investor and property-developments forums, where he offers free advice to new and experienced developers, sharing ideas and strategies to help Australians realise their property developments dreams with minimal fuss and minimal financial loss. Read our Granny Flat Approval Guide for a starting checklist and discuss the requirements of your property with our team.

In short, we are well educated in the relevant aspects of hydraulic and structural engineering, surveying, interior design, landscape architecture and quality building, to name just a few building and development arenas. We say this, not to boast, but to illustrate what it really takes to save our clients time and money on their granny flat design, approval and the entire building process. We believe in not just being ‘adequate’, but to excel.