Build-ready block: approved high-performance plans + passive house concept

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Download the full plans and renders at 10a.land. Private sale — we’re here to have a genuine conversation about making this work for you.

The hardest, slowest and most frustrating part of building is already done. This north-facing block in Croydon North comes with council-approved plans and the site works completed, cut, drained, retained and serviced, so your builder can be pricing within weeks, not next year.

A note from the owners. We retrofitted our own home next door to Passive House standard, and when our block was large enough to subdivide responsibly, we didn’t want to hand the lot to a project builder and watch another fifty-year volume home go up beside us. So we did the hard design groundwork properly. We will be your neighbours for a long time, so we will be honest: by investing in the design first, we are quietly hoping to find a household that values what we value, how a home performs, how it sits on the land, how it ages, and what it asks of the planet. If that is you, the parts of the build that exhaust most people are already done. The right choice, made easy.

Two ways to build, both included:

1. A council-approved, ready-to-build high-performance home: 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, split-level, approx 220sqm, with open-plan living, a 15sqm deck, generous storage and a double garage. North-facing solar roof, double glazing, 5,000L water tanks plumbed for greywater recycling, a permeable driveway and indigenous, water-wise landscaping. Planning Permit M/2021/1020 was issued by Maroondah Council in January 2022, so you can apply for a building permit and start within weeks.

2. Take it further with a Passive House concept: 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms over two storeys, approx 235sqm. Triple glazing, sub-1 ACH airtightness, R6+ walls and R8+ roof, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery and HEPA filtration, and integrated solar, designed to hold 20 to 25 degrees year-round with almost no active heating or cooling, and energy bills up to 90% below a standard new build. We designed it to build at approx $4,250 per square metre, around 30% below typical Passive House costs. Concept stage only; we can introduce the specialist Passive House architects to take it through approval.

What’s already done on the block, more than $167,000 of work:

– Architectural design (approved home + Passive House concept): $41,735
– Surveying, building consultancy and council fees: $7,657
– Site cut, earthworks, retaining walls and stormwater drainage to the legal point of discharge: $57,090
– Services to the block (water connected; sewer point, power, gas and NBN provisioned): $25,626
– Vehicle crossover rebuilt to council standard and approx 165sqm permeable paving: $34,967
– Total: $167,075, plus an estimated 6 to 12 months saved. Full itemised breakdown available.

The block: approximately 500sqm, north-facing, Residential 1 Zone with no overlays.

The street is quiet and genuinely safe, the kind where kids still move between yards, and neighbours have been here 20+ years. Yarra Road Primary is a one-minute walk; Luther College, Croydon Hills Primary and Yarra Valley Grammar are all within about five kilometres; Candlebark Lake reserve is ten minutes through bushland. We have an established edible garden, fruit trees and compost next door, and are happy to help set the same up at 10A. The bus is a minute away, Croydon Station six minutes, the Warburton Trail fourteen minutes, EastLink ten. Both homes are solar-ready and EV-ready. Whoever takes 10A becomes, for us, the first chapter of a street we are slowly hoping to build.

See the full plans, renders and the itemised list of completed works at 10a.land. Private sale, happy to have a genuine conversation about making it work.

Full notes on Design, planning and site works already completed 10A Panorama Drive, Croydon North

Before a buyer breaks ground, this block already has the following completed and paid for, work most buyers must fund, wait out and project-manage themselves.

Architectural design

– Approved home design with full working drawings: $35,751
– Passive House concept design: $5,984
– Subtotal: $41,735

Professional fees & approvals

– Building consultancy & certification: $5,115
– Land surveying (drainage & driveway set-out): $2,068
– Maroondah City Council application fees: $474
– Subtotal: $7,657

Site preparation, earthworks & drainage

– Site clearing & establishment – tree protection zones, dilapidation report, permitted clearing: $10,175
– Demolition & site cut to design levels (building platform prepared): $17,600
– Retaining walls per approved design: $4,180
– Retention / stormwater drainage connected to legal point of discharge: $25,135
– Subtotal: $57,090

Services connected

– Water – meter & line to the block: $5,786
– Sewer – connection point provided & authority plan updated: $3,135
– NBN, electrical conduits & gas provisioning: $7,425
– Electrical meter box, authority application & certification¹: $9,280
– Subtotal: $25,626

Access & surfaces

– Vehicle crossover removed & rebuilt to council standard (MCC-50): $6,567
– Permeable paving – approx 165m² supplied & laid: $28,400
– Subtotal: $34,967

Total completed work attributable to the block: $167,075

Plus an estimated 6 to 12 months of planning and construction time already behind you.

¹ Common-property infrastructure shared with the adjoining lot; included because the block relies on it.

Reconciliation: total documented project spend $174,708.10, less $7,633.10 of works specific to the retained existing dwelling (Lot 1): power changeover, fencing, greywater and Laserlight.

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