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Demolition Dural: Contractors for Large Blocks and the Two-Council Question
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Take down a house, a pool or an old shed on a Dural block, and the first question is not which machine, but which council signs it off. The suburb straddles a boundary: part of Dural sits in Hornsby Shire, part in The Hills Shire, and which one assesses your demolition depends on where your block is. Since 2015, Eco Demolition has sorted exactly that. We are a family-operated, licensed demolition contractor with more than 1,000 projects behind us, working across Dural and the wider Hills and Hornsby districts as demolition contractors. On a large block, that means one team for the approval, the asbestos and the demolition itself, at one fixed price.
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Which council approves a demolition in Dural: Hornsby Shire or The Hills Shire?
Most Sydney suburbs answer to one council. Dural answers to two. The boundary falls so that some addresses sit in Hornsby Shire and others in The Hills Shire, each a separate consent authority. Before anything is quoted or lodged, the first thing to settle is which one is yours.
You can confirm it from the property: a section 10.7 planning certificate names the council and controls for any NSW address. We check it at the site assessment, then lodge through the NSW Planning Portal to the right council.
Whichever council it is, the rule is the same. Under clause 2.7 of the relevant Local Environmental Plan, demolishing a building needs development consent unless it counts as exempt work. From there it runs as exempt development for minor work, a fast code-based Complying Development Certificate (CDC) where it strictly meets the standards, or a full Development Application (DA). That choice moves your timeline more than anything on site.
Eco Demolition on a Dural job
Eco Demolition is a family-operated demolition and asbestos contractor, founded in 2015 by Adam A. Abbas. It grew out of frustration with operators who cut corners on asbestos and left owners a mess. Since then the team has completed more than 1,000 projects across residential, commercial and government sites in Sydney, and we hold current licences for both demolition and asbestos removal, so one contractor covers the job. Our licence numbers, insurance, accreditations and reviews sit on our main Sydney demolition page for you to check.
What Hornsby or The Hills Shire may ask for
The exact documents depend on your site and the pathway, but a few are worth knowing early.
Hornsby’s plan carries a clause written for this suburb: clause 6.6 of the Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013, “Restrictions on certain development in Dural Village”. If your block sits inside the mapped Dural Village area, that is one more control the council checks, alongside the Part 6 rural-land provisions that often apply on larger, vegetated lots. For a DA, Hornsby’s current guideline may call for a plan protecting the public and Council’s assets during the works, and a waste plan setting out reuse, recycling and disposal.
The Hills Shire assesses its side under its own planning instruments and asks for a Waste Management Plan with any demolition. Its form wants your demolition contractor’s licence number, which a licensed contractor supplies as a matter of course. The Hills also runs a formal request for work outside standard consent hours, granted only in exceptional circumstances, useful if your job needs after-hours or emergency work.
Both are LGA-wide, read against your actual address.
Trees, vegetation and the complying-development trap
Here is the trap on a leafy Dural block. Even where a knockdown would otherwise qualify for the fast CDC route, Hornsby’s rules withdraw it if the work involves removing or pruning a tree or other vegetation that needs a permit or consent (Schedule 3 of the Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013). On a large, established lot, clearing around the building often means touching protected vegetation, which can push the whole job onto a DA. Check your trees before you count on the quick route; we flag it early on a vegetated site.
Demolition on a large Dural block
Out in Sydney’s north-west, Dural is large, often semi-rural blocks, not terraces and semis, and the work reflects that. The job we are asked for most is a full house demolition for a rebuild, and on a big block it rarely stops there. On a Dural property we regularly take on:
- Full house demolition and knockdown-rebuild site preparation
- Swimming pool removal and site restoration
- Shed, garage and outbuilding removal
- Land and vegetation clearing, and general site clearing
- Site preparation for subdivision, where an older dwelling is cleared for new lots
- Partial and selective demolition, and internal or commercial strip-outs
Before anything comes down we disconnect the services, electricity, gas, water and any NBN line. Then we clear the waste, recycle what we can, and hand back a level site.
Asbestos, cleared before the structure comes down
Older buildings can hold asbestos, so a pre-demolition inspection comes before any structural work. If it is found, it is removed under licence and the site cleared first, never alongside the demolition. We are licensed for both types. Non-friable asbestos is bonded into solid material such as cement sheeting, removed under a Class B licence. Friable asbestos is the loose, crumbling kind, held to stricter rules, and only a Class A licence holder may remove it. For friable work an independent licensed assessor we arrange carries out the air monitoring and clearance certificate, not us, so the clearance is genuinely at arm’s length. It all meets SafeWork NSW and NSW EPA requirements.
What a Dural demolition costs, and the fixed price behind it
No square-metre rate fits a Dural demolition, because no two blocks carry the same building, access or amount to clear. What moves the price is the size and build of what is coming down, how much is kept, whether asbestos is present, machine access across a large block, the approval pathway, and the volume of waste. We work that out at a free site assessment, then set one figure under our Fixed Price Guarantee: the price we quote is the price you pay, with no hidden fees or surprise variations unless you change the scope. The quote is free.
How a Dural demolition runs, and the plan behind it
Demolition in New South Wales is carried out to an Australian Standard, AS 2601 “The Demolition of Structures”, and any job runs to a Demolition Work Plan drawn up before work starts. That plan, and our seven steps, keep a Dural job in order:
- A free quote once you tell us the address and scope.
- A free site assessment of the building, access, vegetation and waste.
- Council approvals: we confirm whether Hornsby or The Hills Shire assesses your block, then prepare and manage the CDC or DA.
- Licensed asbestos removal and site preparation, services disconnected.
- Demolition to plan and to AS 2601, with progress photos as we go.
- Waste removal and clean-up, recycling what we can.
- Compliance certificates, and the block handed back ready for your builder.
We door-knock the neighbours first, which heads off objections a resident could otherwise lodge.
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Demolition in Dural: common questions
The questions we hear most on a Dural job, answered against the councils’ own processes.
Not if the application goes to the right authority first time. The delay owners hit is lodging with the wrong council, or assuming the fast CDC applies when a tree or heritage control rules it out. We confirm the authority and pathway up front.
It still needs approval, and much demolition work must be done by a licensed demolisher under SafeWork NSW rules, with any asbestos removed by a licensed removalist. Doing it without the right approval and handling is where owners come unstuck, so it is almost always simpler to have a licensed contractor manage both.
For the demolition on its own, no. A standalone demolition is approved through a CDC or a DA, not a Construction Certificate, which belongs to the building stage that follows.
The demolition itself is usually quick once it begins. What sets the real timeline is the approval beforehand and, where it applies, the asbestos clearance, which is why we settle both early.
Two councils, one contractor
Contractors for Large Blocks and the Two-Council Question. Our Dural promise, kept.
Two councils, one contractor. Send us the address and your plans, and we will confirm who assesses your block, sort the approval, the asbestos and the vegetation checks, and take the structure down for one fixed price. Call Eco Demolition on 02 9769 0050, Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm, with a 24/7 line for emergency demolition.
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