The City of Willoughby is a vibrant community with a blend of residential, retail, recreational commercial and industrial districts. It promotes a lifestyle that includes the visual and performing arts.
Willoughby provides a healthy and inspiring environment with scenic waterways, bushland, parks, significant Heritage Items and Heritage Conservation Areas. All of these contribute to the special character of the area.
Renovating your home in Willoughby Council is an exciting prospect. The homes in Willoughby have been well-built and represent different architectural styles over many decades. These are often suited to upgrades that improve their liveability. Upgrading or transforming your home will offer your family a delightful new-home feel. You can have indoor-outdoor spaces that suit your contemporary lifestyle and make a statement about your personal style.
Take Advantage of Existing Structures
Well-built homes that need updating or expanding to accommodate your growing family respond well to a design style that is sympathetic to the existing house. When designing renovations and extensions to homes in Willoughby, Martin Kolarik aims to raise design standards. His work will match your contemporary lifestyle and make the extension sympathetic to your existing home. If your home is in good condition, then extending and renovating will result in that new-home feel.
Designing Home Renovations in Willoughby Council
Willoughby Council aims to ensure that development embraces the principles of quality urban design and innovative, high-quality architectural design with environmental sustainability. Yet balancing this development must be economically viable.
The Council conserves items of environmental and cultural heritage, in order to retain the character of heritage conservation areas for current and future generations. Environmental protection is also top-of-mind. Because of this, they protect and enhance environmentally sensitive areas, such as native bushland, foreshore areas and areas of high scenic landscape value. Their scope includes minimising bushfire risk to properties and people.
Home renovation in Willoughby Council requires local experience and knowledge. Martin Kolarik’s experience aligns with these Council values. This includes experience with certifications, design principles and sustainability elements.
He is particularly adept at bringing natural light into the darker rooms of your home.
The Key to Obtaining Approvals from Council
Willoughby Council is focused on approving designs for homes that meet their regulations. These regulations are specific to each property. Whether the regulations relate to Heritage or Bushfire areas, or a property that has straightforward requirements, every submission needs to comply with the property-specific regulations.
Designing a home that clients will be proud to live in whilst balancing and respecting Council’s specific objectives is Martin Kolarik’s forte. He has a keen eye for designing creative solutions and elegant homes.
Martin enjoys the technical and artistic challenges of designing homes for families.
Martin stays up to date on the latest regulations in Willoughby Council DAs (Development Applications) and NSW State CDCs (Complying Development Certificate). What this means for you is that he can advise you on what is feasible on your property based on the changes you wish to make to your home. He will employ the most user-friendly approval process for your project.
Getting designs approved for unusual circumstances
There are situations where a property does not fit into the typical parameters.
In those circumstances, Martin Kolarik has had a great deal of success negotiating outcomes that sit well with both our clients and the Council’s objectives. Designing homes that meet the objectives of Willoughby Council is the best way to obtain Council approval.
Martin Kolarik is an experienced designer of homes in the Willoughby Council area. He is a long-term designer and resident of the North Shore.
He will listen to what you want and seek to understand your family’s needs now and in the longer term. Martin’s priority is to ensure that your home reflects your dreams and your needs. He has the keen ability to offer creative design solutions that often exceed your expectations.
Martin will also advise you on what is a feasible and more sensible use of your renovation dollars.
Designing Renovations for Bushfire Prone Areas in Willoughby
The beauty of the bush is perhaps one of the many reasons you moved here. These things of beauty can be managed with successful designs.
To renovate on Bushfire Prone Land, a high level of expertise regarding the specific material selection and construction appropriate to your property’s BAL (Bushfire Attack Level) rating is essential.
Martin has followed the evolution of bushfire regulations for decades. As a result, he is at the forefront of the current regulations, subsequent bushfire construction techniques and appropriate available building materials. He has the confidence to design homes for any BAL Rating level. His confidence is based on a wealth of experience. He has successfully created elegant designs for home extensions and additions in all BAL levels, especially for the higher BAL Rating areas, like BAL-FZ (Flame Zone) and BAL-40.
Designing Renovations of Heritage Homes in Willoughby
The local characteristics of homes that have significant representation of the local Willoughby history are preserved through Heritage Conservation Areas and specific Heritage Items.
Willoughby is home to 12 Heritage Conservation Areas and over 240 Heritage Items. Heritage Conservation Areas encompass the overall effect of the houses along a street and sometimes the landscape as well. These create a streetscape that is representative of the history of the area. This means any new development or home renovation in Willoughby Council needs to conform to the heritage requirements of the area.
The aim of the Council’s review of any proposal for the development of a Heritage Item is to ensure that it is sympathetic to the form and style of the existing property and its heritage significance.
Martin has successfully designed renovations of Heritage properties in councils across Sydney’s north, including Willoughby Council.
Contact your design expert from the North Shore
Martin Kolarik personally designs every project. Most importantly, he is transparent with his advice regarding what is possible and feasible.
This advice is based on a wealth of experience in creating successful elegant designs for home extensions and additions and achieving 100% success in receiving approvals.
Martin is focused on making the process of renovating your home a memorable and enjoyable one for you. His expertise gives you the confidence that your home renovation design will be in keeping with the standards of Willoughby Council. But most importantly, you will be confident about meeting your goals.
Call Martin Kolarik to discuss how we can bring your dream home to life!
0407 900 068