Re-engineering the outcome, mid-build
This project shows how we think commercially at every stage. It began as a dual occupancy with attached granny flats — two house-and-granny-flat packages, each valued around $1.2M. Solid, but we saw a better outcome for both the project and the buyers it serves.
What we're achieving
With construction at 70% through McDonald Jones Homes, we lodged a new change-of-use DA and draft strata plan to split the title into four independent dwellings — each with its own title, parking and floor plan. The result: four homes at two accessible price points instead of two large packages, a stronger combined end value, and product that far more local buyers can actually afford.
How the re-engineering works
The original approval treated each side as one package: a double-storey home with an attached granny flat under a single title. The change-of-use DA reclassifies the granny flats as independent dwellings — each with its own assigned parking, its own floor plan, and its own strata title under draft plan SP17823. Stormwater, metering and services are being separated to match, coordinated with the builder mid-construction so nothing is reworked twice.
The process
Love Project Management coordinates the change-of-use DA with Port Macquarie-Hastings Council while McDonald Jones continues construction — the approval pathway and the build run in parallel rather than in sequence, so the title split lands as the homes complete. Stone Real Estate has already restructured the marketing strategy around four individual campaigns, with floor plans split per dwelling and pricing set against villa and townhouse comparables rather than dual-occupancy stock.