Palmwoods, 4555, mixes a walkable village heart with acreage streets where the driveway is the longest structure on the property. That spread makes it a suburb of two quotes: tidy village replacements measured in a morning, and long acreage runs where the site measure walks a few hundred metres and the staging plan matters as much as the rate.
Village jobs
Around the village the blocks are conventional and the ground is workable loam; jobs are mostly replacements of older slabs and widenings for modern households. Broom grey from $100 per m2 and full depth oxide colour at $110 to $130 carry almost all of it, poured at 100mm minimum in 25 MPa with joints on a drawn layout, same as everywhere on this site.
Acreage runs
Out on the acreage streets the questions change: how much of the run justifies concrete against the gravel it replaces, where water crosses the drive on a long grade, and whether the pour stages. Long runs are quoted with options, full length or staged from the road in, with joints planned to land where any stages meet, and thicker sections specified where floats, vans or delivery trucks will track. The soil out here is hinterland loam over clay bands that move seasonally, which the base and joint layout are built for.
Palmwoods pricing
The published rates hold for both kinds of job: new pours from $100 per m2, replacements $135 to $195 including removal, extensions $110 to $160. For a long run, put the honest square metres into the calculator and see the shape of it before anyone visits; the written price after a site measure does not move.
Sunshine Coast Council crossover rules in Palmwoods
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.
Driveways nearby
Nambour, Buderim, Landsborough, Maleny. All 20 suburbs: where we pour.