VBA registered and insured, in Geelong since 2006
The crossover, the bit of driveway that crosses the council nature strip to the road, is usually the property owner cost, and most councils need it built to their spec with a permit. What the paperwork involves for a crossover, and for a structural house or shed slab that needs building approval and VBA-registered work.
Concreting comes with paperwork, and it is the question almost no quote answers straight: who pays for the crossover, and what permit does the job need. Here is the plain version, so you know who is on the hook and what has to be approved before any concrete goes down.
The crossover is the section of driveway that crosses the council nature strip between your boundary and the road. It sits on council land, but it is normally the property owner cost, not the council. Most councils require it to be built to their spec, with a permit or an approved application in hand before the pour. The spec sets the width, the thickness, the fall and the materials, so it carries vehicles and ties into the kerb and the road.
Build a crossover off-spec and it can fail inspection and have to be cut out and redone at your cost. That is the part a vague quote skips, and it is the part that turns into a second bill.
A plain driveway or path on your own property often needs no permit. A structural job is different. A new-build house slab, and structural slab and footing work over the domestic threshold in Victoria, needs building approval and the work done by a VBA-registered concreter. The slab is designed to AS 2870 off a site classification, and the design and the approval are what it is signed off against.
The paperwork is not the part to guess at. A crossover built off-spec, or a structural slab poured without approval, is the one that gets pulled up at inspection. We sort which permits your job needs before we pour, not after.
We do the crossover and permit conversation straight, up front, every job. We tell you who pays, which permit your job needs, and then build the crossover and the slab to the council and AS 2870 spec so it passes inspection. The hardest part of the paperwork becomes the easy part, because it is sorted before a truck turns up.
Ask this, exactly
“Does the quote name the crossover and who pays for it, which council permit or approval my job needs, and confirm you build to the council spec and the AS 2870 design so it passes inspection?”
A quote that names the crossover, the permit and who pays is one you can trust. A quote that stays silent on the approvals is where the second bill, or the failed inspection, starts.
Tell us your council and what you are pouring on the measure, and we will tell you exactly what your job needs. If it is a structural slab, we will walk you through the soil test, the AS 2870 design and the building approval, so nothing about the paperwork is a surprise.
Slabline Concreting Co.