The Milton Heights House
A couple who had owned an escarpment lot for nine years and had never been able to get anything approved on it.
The site sits inside the Niagara Escarpment Plan area. That is a separate permit from the municipal one, it is slow, and a refusal costs you a year.
Spent the first fourteen months on approvals rather than drawings — development permit, conservation authority, then the building permit, in that order, with the design held loose until each one landed. Nothing was drawn in final until we knew what would be allowed. The build itself took eleven months and finished on the original number.
"Nine years we'd been told it couldn't be done. They told us it could, and then told us it would take a year and a bit before we saw a shovel. Both true."
Thirty minutes. Bring your lot, your budget, or just the idea.
We'll tell you what is possible on your site and roughly what it costs. If we are not right for it, we will say so and point you at someone who is.