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We can build sheds, verandahs and decks and repair homes on Haddon’s two-hectare rural living blocks. A third of addresses are under the Bushfire Management Overlay, so we check what applies first.
Haddon is an old gold town on the Glenelg Highway, now mostly rural living blocks, with a general store, a school and a reserve.
Rural living blocks are typically about 2 hectares, and township lots about 8,000 square metres. With half of homes on four or more bedrooms and most owner-occupied, the work is sheds, verandahs, decks and repairs. Growth is slow, with only a handful of new addresses since 2023, so most work is improving homes people already live in.
In the main rural living zone the minimum lot is 2 hectares, but a new dwelling needs a permit on anything under 8 hectares. Buildings need setbacks of 10 metres from roads, 5 metres from boundaries and 30 metres from a neighbour’s house. A riverine flood overlay covers large areas but only a few homes.
All of Haddon is bushfire prone, and the Bushfire Management Overlay covers about a quarter of the land and 179 addresses. Under the overlay, an extension adding no more than half the floor area, or an outbuilding under 100 square metres that goes with the house and isn’t used for accommodation, needs no bushfire permit. Because the whole locality is bushfire prone, verandahs and decks are built to the site’s bushfire attack level.
Looking after the school, the hall or the community centre in Haddon? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
What Haddon’s rural living homes need most.
Wide verandahs for houses on open, exposed blocks.
Decks off the back of acreage homes.
Additions measured to the 10, 5 and 30 metre setbacks.
Fences around the house paddock.
Wide gates for trailers and machinery.
Boards on older houses in the township.
Doors and locks that have dropped or stuck.
Give us the road so we can look up the zone and overlays.
Which rural zone you are in decides the setbacks and the permit.
Free and itemised, with the trip out on the page.
We bring everything so the job doesn’t drag out over many visits.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
Beyond our expectations, and it was great to work with people who could turn our ideas into something better than we imagined. Couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
Haddon was first known as Sago Hill or Campbell’s Diggings, where gold was prospected in 1857 but not profitably mined until 1859. The railway reached it from Ballarat in 1883, and the primary school opened in 1870.
The 2021 census counted 1,276 residents with a median age of 40, every home a separate house. Big rural blocks and fire rules are why the work here is planned before it is built.
Haddon borders Smythesdale, Bunkers Hill, Snake Valley, Nintingbool, Smythes Creek, Bo Peep, Cardigan and Hillcrest.
Tell us the road and what you’re planning, and we will work out the zone rules and send a free estimate.