17/10/2026
A WA site can look like a clean subdivision and still fail on servicing. 🚧
Imagine buying a block where water and wastewater assets sit nearby, so you assume every new lot is cheap to connect. Later, the layout forces long service runs and awkward easements, and the numbers no longer work.
The fix
Before offering, mark the existing water and wastewater assets, likely connection points, contours, proposed lot boundaries and access handles. Then ask whether every lot can be serviced without wrecking the lot design or creating a cost the margin cannot carry.
A licensed surveyor can help with boundaries, levels and deposited plan requirements. A civil engineer can test the water, sewer and drainage concept. Keep easements and authority timing in the project budget and programme from the start, not at the end.
That gives you better information before you commit, so you can change the layout, price or walk away.
🎓 What would a Think Property Club student do?
📋 Get current authority information for water and wastewater assets.
📐 Overlay services with the proposed lot layout and building envelopes.
🗓️ Put servicing applications and clearances into the project programme.
🏡 Check out Think Property Club for more practical property development tips.
📷 Photo: Kat Nesterenko / Unsplash. Illustrative photograph.
