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Services Offered

My design objectives are to offer an Interior and Architectural design service catering especially for the renovation and refurbishment of Terrace houses and Older houses with character that needs to be retained, in some cases restored and yet be modernised with functional kitchens that really work and bathrooms that are genuinely pleasant to use. We can produce standard Heritage Conservation Reports which are an accurate (depending on old records etc) and detailed history of a house and where it fits into the scheme of heritage importance in its context - street, suburb setting etc. For more detailed or sophisticated appraisals for Court challenges etc., we can arrange specialist professional consultants to work on our projects.
Council approvals
My team can undertake a site analysis which includes a feasibility study along and a costing for your project.We prepare all the relevant documentation including Architectural drawings, Specifications, Statement of Environmental Effects, Heritage Impact Statements etc. required for the application process. We have processed hundreds of applications over the last 20 years including;
Woollahra Council area in the Paddington area
Brown Street, Glenmore Road, Goodhope Street, Glenview Street, William Street, Boundary Street, Cascade Street, Windsor Street, Hargrave Street, Paddington Street, Spicer Lane, Oxford Street commercial, Ormond Street, Stafford Street, Underwood Street, Jersey Road, Norfolk Street, Harris Street and Sutherland Street, Paddington; and in Darling Point, Rose Bay, Point Piper and Moncur Street and Holdsworth Street.
Mosman Council area
Heritage Conservation Areas and the Chinaman's Beach Conservation Area,Cremorne and Mc Mahons Point
Inner west Council area
Balmain, Leichardt, Lillyfield, Elizabeth Bay, City of Sydney.
Northern Beaches Council area
Northbridge and Pittwater Council Areas.
Regional Council areas
Wingcarribee Shire - Mittagong and KangaloonSnowy Mountains Council area; Cooma and DalgetyNewcastle City Council area; CBD Merriwa
Planning - Statutory and strategic urban planning Architecture - Professional plans and drawings and rendering on AutoCAD, Revit etc. Design - Conceptual drawings for all projects Development - Exempt and complying development and feasibility studies Interior - Innovative designs using fine arts, style, and location of unique art Nineteenth - Century heritage style & design Georgian - and Victorian and 20th-century architecture Terrace houses - Renovations and reinstatements of heritage fabric Old - Period housing with porticos and bullnose awnings Neoclassical - Design and architecture, antiquity
The team at John Normyle Design also offers the following services;
Engineering
We work with a range of engineering professionals who provide civil, "traffic” geotechnical, and hydraulic engineering services to get your proposal through Council or the private certification process.
Cost of works services
We engage with professionals who offer competitive quotes for your project with a complete cost of works package. We work with qualified surveyors who assess project plans and provide a preliminary costing as a guideline.
Town planning advice
Our Town planners assist us in preparing development applications that may involve modifications and additions and alterations, changes of use, subdivisions, etc.We work with several eminently qualified Consultant Town Planners or Planning Lawyers who interpret relevant legislation such as the EP&A Act, Local Government Act, relevant State Legislation. We provide mediation services which may result in litigation.