Palmview, 4553, is Harmony, and Harmony has homework. The estate’s design covenant puts driveways on a clock and a style guide at the same time: the driveway is expected to be complete within 30 days of handover, the covenant approval wants your site plan showing location, width and materials, and an undecorated grey broom finish is not permitted. That combination catches new owners out constantly, and it is the reason this page is blunt about sequencing.
Get the quote before the keys
The 30 day window is short when it has to hold a covenant approval, weather and a concrete pour. The clean way through is to have the site measure done and the fixed quote and covenant paperwork ready before handover, so the pour books the week you get the keys instead of the week the deadline expires. That sequencing is normal here and costs nothing extra.
Finishes Harmony accepts
With plain broom grey off the menu, Palmview driveways go to full depth oxide colour or an exposed aggregate finish, both inside the covenant’s expectations for decorative finishes. Check the design guidelines that apply to your release, because requirements vary across the estate; what applies to your lot is confirmed before anything is booked. The footpath saw cut and reinstatement the estate expects at the crossover is part of the job, not a variation.
Ground and price
The estate sits on engineered, compacted fill that takes a slab well; the base work is about matching what the builder left, which is checked at the measure. Budget from the coloured row of the pricing page: $110 to $130 per m2 for coloured, $135 to $150 for exposed aggregate finish, supply and install. A typical Harmony double of 55 to 60 m2 lands roughly $6,050 to $9,000 by finish. The written price after a site measure does not move.
Sunshine Coast Council crossover rules in Palmview
Sunshine Coast Council runs a two tier crossover system. A standard crossover, one that ticks every box on the council’s own checklist, is self assessed: no permit, no fee, build it to the council’s drawings. A non standard crossover, wrong width or position, a corner lot, too close to a pit or a pole, needs the council’s written approval through an Operational Works application before any work starts, with an application fee the council resets each financial year.
Any new crossover or change to a crossover’s profile, surface, size or materials counts as construction under these rules, so replacements and widenings are covered, not just new builds. Urban crossovers are built to the council’s nominated IPWEA standard drawings in concrete, asphalt or bitumen; raised stamped patterns are not accepted. Clearances matter: crossovers keep their distance from stormwater pits, power poles, bus stops and street assets, and corner lots take access from their addressed street.
Requirements and fees are the council’s, and they change; whether your crossover is standard, and what any application costs, is confirmed in writing with your quote.
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