Hornsby, Wahroonga, Turramurra, Pymble and the leafy north
Upper North Shore
Upper North Shore homes often have generous single-level footprints on well-treed blocks, and families extend upward to keep the garden setting intact. The region's canopy, conservation pockets and sloping terrain give additions here a distinctly site-specific character.
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What Level 2 work looks like here
Tree canopy protection means upper-level designs work around arborist constraints as much as structural ones.
Conservation areas in parts of Ku-ring-gai route projects through council assessment with character expectations.
Sloping blocks introduce split-level ground floors, which complicate load paths for a new level above.
Larger existing roofs make staged, weather-protected deconstruction part of the program design.
Common jobs
Frequent Level 2 scopes in this area
Full upper levels on postwar brick homes among established trees
Character-sensitive additions inside conservation areas
Load-path engineering over split-level ground floors
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