00:00So Gerry, today's been a long time coming. How does it feel to finally get the DA activated?
00:07Well, as you say, it's been a long time. Three years for the actual DA, five years for the CC
00:15and that's enabled us to activate the DA. You gave a commitment to the council the other week
00:22that the project will be done in three years. Are you going to stick to that?
00:27I'm going to stick to it. The question is, is the council going to stick to it?
00:31You know, they have played a huge part in the fact that it has taken so long.
00:36And really, it's really the bureaucratic difficulties which has caused such a delay.
00:42So I put it to them, they have got to help me.
00:46And it's not even three years, it's a year and a half left out of the two years
00:51from the grant which I received from Heritage News and Wales.
00:55So I've got to finish this floor and the first floor or the ground floor, sorry, this floor
01:01and I've got to finish the ground floor within a year and a half.
01:04Yeah, it's a lot of work.
01:06It's a lot of work but it's certainly nothing beyond what I'm capable of doing.
01:12And as I say, it's really just getting the bureaucratic okays and signing the paperwork to allow me to do
01:22it.
01:22Yep. So you've got a conditional construction certificate.
01:25What do you need to get a full construction certificate so we can get work underway in full year?
01:32It's yet more bureaucratic hurdles.
01:36And those hurdles encompass getting structural certification, structural drawings, which is in line with the heritage necessities.
01:47So it's basically just crossing the T's and dotting the I's but that's not so easy.
01:54It's got to get the certification to placate council and the certifiers to allow me to continue to start and
02:03do it.
02:04Have you had any advice about how long that process might take?
02:08Um, actually no. I'm all eager to get it happening soon.
02:14You know, it's a case of what my architects have told me.
02:18Yeah.
02:18And I've got to admit, I keep getting surprises along the road because I thought that once I got the
02:23CC, I could start.
02:25And all of a sudden there's all the conditions attached to it.
02:28Yeah.
02:28Which necessitates getting all these further consultancy reports.
02:32Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
02:33So in some ways today is a, it's a milestone, but there's still a way to go.
02:40Is that fair?
02:41Well, it's one of many milestones.
02:43Yeah.
02:43It's, you know, fulfills the certification that I don't have to go back to the start to get the DA.
02:50It probably enforces to council and to heretic New South Wales that I am serious about it.
02:58And I am eager to fulfill my requirements, which is to do the basement level and the ground level within
03:05a year and a half.
03:06And, you know, I'm no magician. I can't do the work in weeks.
03:10It will take months to do the work, but I don't want to have another further six months delay of
03:15getting the certification.
03:16It's very then Aaaand
03:17Yeah.
03:17This is a great world and I'm prepared to make sure there's no matters
03:18I'm perfect.
03:19What else?
03:19We are not ready then.
03:20Her name is We are perfect.
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