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Demolition Dover Heights: Contractors for the Waverley Council Area
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Take a house down in Dover Heights to make way for a new one, and the approval goes to Waverley Council. Not Woollahra next door, as plenty of owners assume. Dover Heights is a clifftop pocket of Sydney's eastern beaches, about 9 km from the city and firmly inside the Waverley local government area. Waverley also wants a document most people have never heard of: a Site Waste and Recycling Management Plan, lodged with the demolition application. It sets out where every load of brick, concrete and timber off your block will go. Eco Demolition prepares that plan for you. We are a family-operated, licensed demolition contractor with more than 1,000 projects across Sydney behind us since 2015.
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The demolition work we take on around Dover Heights
Most demolition here is residential, and the job we handle most is the full knockdown: an existing house cleared to a level, construction-ready block for a new home to go up. It is the everyday Waverley demolition, the scope of a determined knockdown-rebuild application on Military Road, an old dwelling down and a new one to follow.
We cover the work either side of it:
- Full residential house demolition, leaving a clean, level block ready to build on
- Partial demolition and internal strip-outs, taking a home back to bare structure for a renovation while protecting what stays
- Shed, garage and outbuilding removal, slabs included
- Swimming pool removal and site restoration
- Site clearing, waste removal, and bulk excavation and site preparation for the build that follows
- Office, shop and end-of-lease strip-outs where a commercial space needs making good
Not sure which fits? Tell us what you want at handover and we will scope it on a free site visit.
Who approves your Dover Heights demolition, and which way it goes
Waverley Council is the consent authority for a demolition here, and the Waverley Local Environmental Plan 2012 is clear that a building may generally be demolished only with development consent. Dover Heights sits in the Council’s Hunter Ward, the detail that separates it from Vaucluse and Rose Bay, which share its postcode but sit only partly in Waverley.
Not every job needs a full application. A state policy, the Exempt and Complying Development Codes, lets some minor demolition proceed within set limits. For most house knockdowns, one of two paths applies. A Complying Development Certificate is a faster, code-based approval for jobs that meet a fixed set of standards. A Development Application is a full Council assessment for anything outside them. Waverley takes both only through the NSW Planning Portal, not over the counter, and which path your property needs is what we confirm first, through our council approvals and permit management.
Eco Demolition, briefly
Eco Demolition is a family-operated business, founded in 2015 by Adam A. Abbas, a civil engineer whose background is in major Sydney infrastructure. We run the approvals, licensed asbestos removal and the demolition as a single contract, so you have one team and one point of contact from the first site visit to a construction-ready handover. Where a clifftop block is too tight for a full-size machine, our hand demolition specialists take the structure down with compact gear and by hand. Full licence numbers, insurance and certifications are set out on our Sydney demolition service page.
The waste plan Waverley wants before you demolish
This is the part of a Dover Heights job that catches owners out. The Site Waste and Recycling Management Plan is really two forms: Part 1 covers design, and Part 2, Construction and Demolition, is the one that matters for a knockdown. Both are lodged with your DA and assessed against Part B1 of the Waverley Development Control Plan 2022, the Council’s waste controls.
Part 2 makes you account for the waste before a wall comes down: how much brick, concrete, clean fill and timber the job will produce, and how much is reused or recycled rather than landfilled. Council even publishes a waste calculator for the bin numbers. It then reappears at Construction Certificate stage, so it is not a one-off tick. Larger knockdown-rebuilds also need a detailed cost report from a registered quantity surveyor, not a simple cost summary.
Documents that miss Council’s electronic lodgement guidelines are returned unlodged, and nothing is accepted until the information and fees are in. We prepare the plan and supporting reports to that standard, so your application lands complete the first time.
Asbestos: licensed removal and an independent clearance
Any home built before the late 1980s can contain asbestos, in fibro sheeting, eaves, pipe lagging or old floor coverings, and it has to come out before structural demolition begins. There is no need to worry about it, only to handle it in the right order.
Every job opens with a pre-demolition inspection, and anything found is removed under licence and taken off site first. We are licensed for both kinds: the bonded, non-friable material such as intact fibro, and the higher-risk friable kind that needs a Class A licence. So you are not left chasing a separate removalist mid-job. For friable asbestos, one step stays deliberately at arm’s length: the air monitoring and clearance certificate are issued by an independent licensed assessor we arrange and coordinate, never sign off ourselves. All of it goes to licensed facilities under SafeWork NSW and NSW EPA rules, which is what Waverley’s waste controls call for when they reference the Council’s asbestos policy.
How the job runs, and what sits behind your fixed price
The job runs as one sequence: a free quote and site assessment, council approvals, licensed asbestos removal and site prep, the demolition, waste removal and clean-up, then the compliance certificates and handover. Before anything comes down, the services, electricity, gas, water, telecommunications and sewer, are disconnected, and we locate what runs underground first. The demolition itself follows AS 2601, the Australian Standard for taking a structure apart safely.
There is no honest flat rate here. The block sets the price: access, whether hand demolition is needed, how much asbestos is present, a full knockdown or a strip-out, and the waste and excavation involved. What we commit to is the Fixed Price Guarantee. Once we have seen the site and quoted, the price we quote is the price you pay, with no hidden fees and no surprise variations. The quote is free.
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Common demolition questions for a Dover Heights job
There is no per-square-metre rate that holds up; the figure depends on the site, the asbestos and the waste plan. We give you one fixed price after a free site visit, and under our Fixed Price Guarantee that is what you pay through to handover.
After a DA is approved, a Construction Certificate is required before building work begins, and the Site Waste and Recycling Management Plan Part 2 forms part of it. A pure demolition running as a Complying Development Certificate uses the CDC as its approval instead. We sort out which certificates your job needs and handle them in order.
AS 2601 is the Australian Standard for how a demolition is planned and carried out safely, from surveying the structure to the order it comes down in. It applies alongside SafeWork NSW rules whichever council assesses the job, and every demolition we run follows it.
Yes. Demolition work in NSW must be done by a licensed demolisher, and SafeWork NSW issues those licences in restricted and unrestricted classes depending on the structure. Eco Demolition holds the demolition and asbestos removal licences the work calls for, with the numbers listed on our Sydney demolition service page.
It depends on the existing structure and how much you would keep. Where the bones are sound, a strip-out and renovation can be cheaper; where they are not, a knockdown and rebuild often beats propping up an old shell. We quote the demolition either way, so you can compare on real numbers.
Talk to us about your Dover Heights demolition
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On a job here the Waverley paperwork matters as much as the machinery. Both sit with us: the approval, the waste plan, the licensed asbestos removal, and a cleared, construction-ready block handed back with your compliance certificates. Send us the address and what is coming down, and it comes back as a single fixed-price quote covering the lot. Call Eco Demolition on 02 9769 0050, Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm, with a 24/7 line for anything urgent or unsafe.
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