Rohan Mehta, registered land surveyor, on site.
Land surveys by a registered land surveyor, and town planning advice, from Argyle Street in Camden.
Something else, or not sure which? Tell us about the block and we’ll say which job it is before you pay for anything.
Each one answers a different question, so it helps to know which before you book.
Fences are often off the line, and old pegs get moved or lost. Where your boundary is comes from the title, the survey records for your block and the marks Rohan finds on the ground. A map online can’t tell you either.
Not the same as a building surveyor. A building surveyor, or certifier, does a different job and can’t define your boundary. We don’t do building certification.
Council’s consent and new titles are two different things. This is the order it goes in, and who does what.
What you’d like to do with the block, and what might stand in the way. At our office or on site.
Written advice on whether a subdivision looks possible, and what it would need. It’s advice, not an approval.
The boundaries, and the detail and levels the design is drawn on.
A planning report, including the statement of environmental effects, goes to council with the plans. Council decides, and may ask for more information.
If council grants consent, it usually comes with conditions to meet before the new lots can be created. Consent isn’t titles.
The final plan of the new lots, prepared for registration.
The plan is lodged with the land registry. Once it’s registered, each new lot has its own title.
That council says yes, or how long council or the registry will take. We tell you what you’re waiting on at each step, and who decides.
Rohan answers for the surveys and Anouk for the planning. Neither signs off the other’s work.
Principal
Registered land surveyorResponsible for every boundary survey and plan we produce, and checks all our field work.
Town planner
Planning Institute of Australia member (example)Runs first conversations, feasibility advice and applications, and answers council while it assesses them.
Survey field assistant
Works on site with Rohan and under his supervision: sets up the instrument, holds the prism pole and places marks. He isn’t a registered surveyor.
Office coordinator
Answers the phone, books site visits and conversations, and sends quotes and the secure link. She isn’t a planner or a surveyor, so she’ll get your question to Anouk or Rohan.
In NSW, a boundary survey has to be done or supervised by a registered land surveyor. Find a registered surveyor on the NSW register.
Planning advice doesn’t need a licence the way boundary work needs a registered surveyor. Anouk’s Planning Institute membership is a professional membership, not a licence, and she doesn’t do survey work.
Every price includes GST. You get a written quote with the scope before any work starts.
$330incl. GST
Up to an hour with Anouk, at our office or on your block.
from$1,650incl. GST
A standard house block. Corner marks quoted on top.
from$1,980incl. GST
For a design on a standard house block. PDF plan and CAD file.
Quoted
Once your plans are approved.
Quoted
In writing, after the first conversation.
Council and land registry charges are separate. Council and the registry set them and charge them. We name each one in your quote, apart from our fee.
Other consultants your application needs quote you themselves.
The address, the council and any deadline tell us most of what we need to quote.
Plans and titles, by secure linkPlease don’t email them or attach them here. Once we’ve read your enquiry, Talia sends you a secure link to upload plans, titles and old survey reports, and our plans come back the same way.
What we do with your details. Fernbank Meridian collects them to reply, quote and do the work you ask for. Only our team sees them, and they aren’t used for marketing. Privacy policy.
Not necessarily, and nobody can tell from a photo or a map online. A boundary identification survey shows where the fence sits against the boundary.
Yes. Book a first planning conversation, and tell us your exchange or settlement date so we can fit in before it.
For a survey, a PDF plan, a CAD file for your designer if you need one, and marks on the ground where the job calls for them. For planning, written advice or a report. It all comes through the secure link.
Our part depends on access, the records for your block and when we can get on site, and we put it in your quote. Council and the land registry work to their own timing, so we don’t promise theirs.
Yes. Anouk lodges the application and answers council’s questions. Your quote says what’s included: lodging, responses, changes to the plans and meetings.
Council gives its reasons. We go through them with you and what you could do next, such as changing the plans. If a review or an appeal is worth looking at, we’ll say who to talk to and check the time limits for your case.
Meet us at the office, or on your block.
We work in NSW only. Most of our jobs are in and around Camden. Further out? Ask, and we’ll tell you before you book whether we can take it on.
Tell us what you’re planning. We’ll say which job it is, and quote it, before any work starts.
