Demolition Point Piper: Tight Harbourfront Blocks, Handled Carefully

Foreshore controls and the access reality

A Point Piper demolition is assessed by Woollahra Municipal Council under the Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 2014 and the council’s development control plan. On the harbour, foreshore controls, including foreshore building lines and provisions protecting the waterway, shape what happens near the water and how a demolition and its works are managed. Layered over the planning is the physical reality that defines Point Piper: constrained street frontages, limited staging room, and blocks that fall away to the harbour, all of which govern how plant gets in and how the demolition is sequenced. On these sites the access method and the protection of the foreshore matter as much as the approval itself.

We read the foreshore and any heritage controls against your specific block, and we plan access, staging and neighbour protection to suit a tight waterfront site. Precision here is not optional, and it is how we work.

The work we do in Point Piper

• Full house demolition and knockdown-rebuild site preparation
• Partial and internal demolition for renovations
• Swimming pool removal, terrace and structure removal
• Selective and hand-demolition on tight, waterfront blocks
• Site clearing and bulk excavation on sloping foreshore sites

On constrained, waterfront or sloping sites we use hand-demolition and non-destructive digging where machinery cannot safely reach, and we notify neighbours before we begin.