Shaun Carter has spent the past 2½ years getting permission to build a new house in Annandale in Sydney, and he’s not there yet.
The director of architecture firm Carter Williamson spent 12 months preparing a client’s application for Inner West Council, waited nine months for the council to effectively refuse it and then another seven months to take the case to the Land and Environment Court.
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