Not as standard. As a pre-design service, the Home Masterplan Report focuses on layouts, strategy, and budget clarity.

If 3D visualisations would help your decision-making, we can prepare these as an optional add-on.

For alteration and addition projects, we work from existing floor plans wherever possible. These may include council drawings, previous architectural plans, or marketing plans sourced from platforms such as realestate.com.au or similar. These are typically sufficient for masterplanning purposes and do not need to be dimensionally exact.

If no existing floor plans are available, an Existing Conditions Site Measure may be required. This is undertaken solely to the level of detail needed to support initial design advice and strategic masterplanning.

Site measures:

• do not replace a formal internal and external survey by a licensed land surveyor, and

• are not suitable for construction documentation, engineering, or permit drawings.

Unsure about existing plans? We’ll confirm this with you before any additional costs are incurred.

Our cost estimations include detailed construction costs using ProCalc software, as well as forecasts for consultant fees and contingency allowances. This comprehensive financial overview ensures transparency and aids in effective budgeting.

The Home Masterplan Report is a pre-design strategy service. It does not include working drawings, permit drawings, construction documentation, engineering, legal, financial or structural reports.

That means the Report is not a set of drawings a builder can quote from or build from. Instead, it helps you understand what is possible, what is worth doing, what it might cost, and what the right next steps are before committing to a full design and documentation process.

Think of it as your strategic foundation: before spending thousands on specialists, detailed drawings or builder pricing, the Report gives you a clear direction and helps you avoid rushing into the wrong scope. We’ll also guide you on when to bring in other professionals, so every step that follows is informed and intentional.

Working drawings, permit documentation, tender drawings and construction documentation can be prepared as a separate stage once the preferred direction is clear.

Most clients come to us with a clear vision for how they want to live, but construction budgets at the early stage are often based on incomplete information. Factors such as the size of the home, the number of rooms and bathrooms, site access, required services, and planning controls can significantly influence what a given budget can achieve.

For this reason, the Home Masterplan Report typically explores a range of options. These might include:

• a version that demonstrates what your current budget can realistically deliver

• a balanced option that prioritises the most important elements of your brief

• a larger or longer-term vision that shows the home fully realised

Seeing these options side by side helps you make informed decisions about what matters most now and what may be staged or expanded in the future.

Where the full brief cannot realistically be achieved within the available budget in a single build stage, we may explore staged construction strategies. This allows the project to begin within the current budget while preserving a clear pathway for the home to grow over time.

The goal of the Home Masterplan Report is clarity. By understanding what the site, the brief, and the budget can realistically achieve, you can move forward with confidence and avoid costly redesign later.