Build-Ready Block: Approved High-Performance Plans + Passive House Concept
This north-facing block in Croydon North comes with council-approved plans and the site works completed – cut, drained, retained and serviced – so your builder can be pricing within weeks, not next year.
A note from the owners. We retrofitted our own home next door to Passive House standard, and when our block was large enough to subdivide responsibly, we didn’t want to hand the lot to a project builder and watch another fifty-year volume home go up beside us. So, we did the hard design groundwork properly. We’ll be your neighbours for a long time, so we’ll be honest: by investing in the design first, we’re quietly hoping to find a household that values what we value – how a home performs, how it sits on the land, how it ages, and what it asks of the planet.
If that’s you, the parts of the build that exhaust most people are already behind you. The right choice, made easy.
Two ways to build, both included with the land:
1. A council-approved, ready-to-build high-performance home – 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, split-level, approx 220sqm, with open-plan living, a 15sqm deck, generous storage and a double garage. North-facing solar roof, double glazing, 5,000L water tanks plumbed for greywater recycling, a permeable driveway, and indigenous, water-wise landscaping. Planning Permit M/2021/1020 was issued by Maroondah Council in January 2022, so you can apply for a building permit and start within weeks.
2. Or take it further with a Passive House concept – 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms over two storeys, approx 235sqm. Triple glazing, sub-1 ACH airtightness, R6+ walls and R8+ roof, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery and HEPA filtration, and integrated solar – designed to hold 20 to 25 degrees year-round with almost no active heating or cooling, targeting heating and cooling energy up to around 90% below a standard new build. Designed to build at approx $4,250 per square metre, around 30% below typical Passive House costs. Concept stage only; we’re happy to introduce the specialist Passive House architects to take it through approval.
The plans were created for this block and come with the land – they’re not sold separately.
What’s already done on the block, more than $167,000 of work:
• Architectural design (approved home + Passive House concept): $41,735
• Surveying, building consultancy and council fees: $7,657
• Site cut, earthworks, retaining walls and stormwater drainage to the legal point of discharge: $57,090
• Services to the block (water connected; sewer point, power, gas and NBN provisioned): $25,626
• Vehicle crossover rebuilt to council standard and approx 165sqm permeable paving: $34,967
• Total: $167,075, plus an estimated 6 to 12 months saved. Full itemised breakdown available.
The block: approximately 500sqm, north-facing, Residential 1 Zone with no overlays.
The street is quiet and genuinely safe, the kind where kids still move between yards and neighbours have been here 20+ years. Yarra Road Primary is a one-minute walk; Luther College, Croydon Hills Primary and Yarra Valley Grammar are all within about five kilometres; Candlebark Lake reserve is ten minutes through bushland. We have an established edible garden, fruit trees and compost next door, and are happy to help set the same up at 10A. The bus is a minute away, Croydon Station six minutes, the Warburton Trail fourteen, EastLink ten. Both homes are solar-ready and EV-ready.
Whoever takes 10A becomes, for us, the first chapter of a street we’re slowly hoping to build.
Enjoy a genuine conversation about making this work for you. See the full plans, renders and the itemised list of completed works online, please request on the property inquiry form.
