Do I need council approval to renovate in Kellyville?

Internal renovations that do not alter the structure or footprint often fall under Exempt Development and need no approval. Structural changes usually qualify for a Complying Development Certificate through a private certifier, since most Kellyville homes sit outside heritage overlays. We confirm which pathway applies to your property before quoting.

How long does a full renovation take in Kellyville?

Most full internal renovations run 16 to 30 weeks on site. Design and any approvals happen before that: a CDC takes about 4 to 8 weeks, and a DA can take up to 6 months, depending on council. We give you a programme with the quote, not after you have signed.

Can I live in the house during the renovation?

Sometimes, if the work is staged and at least one bathroom and kitchen stay operational. For a full internal renovation we generally recommend moving out. It is faster, cheaper and safer, and the cost of six months of rent is often less than the cost of the delays that come from working around an occupied home.

Is renovating my Kellyville home cheaper than knocking down and rebuilding?

Almost always. Kellyville homes from the eighties and nineties have sound structure and generous footprints, which is exactly the profile where renovating runs 30 to 40 per cent cheaper than a knockdown rebuild. The houses are simply not old enough to justify demolition in most cases, and we will tell you honestly if yours is the exception.

What kind of building contract do you use?

We use a fixed price (lump sum) building contract, agreed before signing. The scope is documented, the inclusions and exclusions are itemised, and any provisional allowances for items that genuinely cannot be priced until walls are opened are listed openly rather than hidden in the total.

What happens after I enquire?

We review your enquiry and call you within 24 to 48 business hours to arrange a consultation at your Kellyville home. A builder walks the property with you, then prepares a written, itemised estimate. There is no cost and no obligation at any point before you choose to proceed.

How will I know what is happening during my renovation?

Two ways. You get a weekly update from the builder running your job, whether or not there is good news in it. And you get access to our client portal, where you can log in any time to see your documents, selections, variations and job status. No chasing, no phone tag, no wondering.

Are you licensed and insured?

Yes. Strava Group holds NSW Builder's Licence 487370C and carries public liability insurance and Home Building Compensation Fund cover on all residential work over the statutory threshold. You can verify the licence directly through Verify NSW at verify.licence.nsw.gov.au.

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Complete transformations

More than cosmetic updates.

A home renovation is an opportunity to completely redefine how you live. Strava Group delivers high end home renovations across Kellyville and the Hills District, transforming established homes into refined, contemporary residences, managed as complete projects from concept through to completion.

Rather than renovating room by room, we approach each Kellyville project as a unified transformation: layout reconfigurations, designer kitchens, luxury bathrooms, flooring, lighting, windows and street presence, all working together. The result is a home that feels intentional, balanced and built to a higher standard.

The first wave of Kellyville is now thirty years old. The houses are big, the blocks are good, and the kitchens, bathrooms and floor plans are ready for their second life.

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Quick Answer

Ground floor renovation work runs $2,500 to $4,500 per square metre, with roughly $30,000 in preliminaries (design, engineering and council approvals, plus site set-up) on top. A full internal renovation of a typical Kellyville home generally falls between $180,000 and $450,000. The larger floor plans push the total up but bring the rate per square metre down, and structural wall removals and wet areas move the figure most.

Renovating in Kellyville

What shapes a renovation in Kellyville.

Kellyville splits into two renovation stories: the established nineties streets hitting renovation age, and the newer estates where the finish is younger but the plans still miss. Here is what shapes a project locally.

Council

Hills Shire

Kellyville sits within The Hills Shire Council. Internal renovations that keep the structure and footprint often need no approval at all under Exempt Development, and where structural changes are involved, most Kellyville homes sit outside heritage overlays, so the faster Complying Development pathway through a private certifier is usually available.

Housing

Nineties estates coming of age

The established streets near Windsor Road carry substantial brick homes from the 1980s and 90s, now dated inside: laminate kitchens, brass tapware and formal rooms nobody uses. The newer release areas are younger but often short a properly connected living zone. Both are exactly the stock where a complete renovation transforms the whole house.

Structure

Good frames, familiar surprises

The framing of the nineties stock is generally sound, though thirty years of settlement and previous handyman work are common behind the linings. On the newer two storey homes, structural changes downstairs have to respect the load above, so the engineering comes first. We check and rectify the structure before anything goes back on.

Layout

Formal rooms, disconnected living

The classic Kellyville plan has formal lounge and dining at the front, a family room in the middle and a kitchen that never matched the size of the house. The renovation gain is in the flow: retiring the formal rooms into space the family actually uses, opening kitchen, meals and family into one zone, and connecting it to the yard. Most of those walls are structural, and we engineer them out properly.

Services

First-generation services due for review

Nineties homes often carry original switchboards and the first generation of plastic plumbing, some of which has known failure issues. A full renovation is the one moment these can be replaced without ripping open finished rooms, and we assess them up front rather than mid build.

Value

A growth centre worth reinvesting in

Kellyville has the Metro, the schools and the town centres holding demand. A substantial home with a properly renovated interior is exactly what buyers here pay for, and the transformation costs far less than trading up within the suburb once stamp duty and agent fees are counted.

Thinking bigger than a renovation? We also build second storey additions and home extensions in Kellyville, and staging them alongside a renovation costs less than doing them years apart.

Start here

Tell us about your Kellyville home.

No sales pitch, no obligation. Here is exactly what happens when you enquire:

One at a time, takes about two minutes, so the first conversation is about your project rather than the basics.

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The Strava standard

How we build differently.

We build for longevity. That sounds like a slogan until you see where it costs us money. On every Kellyville renovation we run:

The existing structure gets rectified, not covered

Plenty of renovations put new gyprock over old problems and hope for the best. We do a full screw off and re-brace the whole house, tying new and existing structure together so the frame moves as one and future cracking is designed out, not painted over.

Furring channels for a dead flat finish

We install furring channels throughout, creating a perfectly level plane for the new linings regardless of what the old frame is doing behind them. Flat on handover day, still flat in raking afternoon light years later.

Waterproofing is a documented hold point

Wet areas are inspected and photographed before a single tile goes on, to AS 3740.

Blocking installed at frame stage

Extra noggins and fixings go in where vanities, TVs, handrails and shower screens will hang later, not chased in afterwards.

Every new-to-existing junction properly detailed

This is where most renovations crack. It is almost always a detailing shortcut, not settlement. Ours get a proper flashing and movement detail.

Everything photographed before it is covered

You receive the record at handover, so in ten years you know exactly what is behind your walls.

Honest numbers

What a renovation costs in Kellyville.

Most builders will not put numbers on a website. We will, because the alternative is wasting your time and ours across three meetings before anyone mentions a figure.

Item	Typical range
Full internal renovation, typical Kellyville home	$180k–$450k
Ground floor renovation work	$2,500–$4,500 /m²
Work at first floor level	$3,500–$5,500 /m²
Preliminaries, on top of build cost	approx. $30,000

Kellyville homes tend toward the larger end of Sydney floor plans, which pushes total cost up but brings the per square metre rate down: bigger areas spread the fixed costs further.

How many of the walls you want gone are structural is usually the largest single factor, followed by the number of wet areas, since a bathroom carries more trades per square metre than any other room in the house. Nineties homes frequently need switchboard upgrades and early plastic plumbing replaced, priced up front rather than discovered mid build.

Every project is quoted properly after a site inspection. These ranges are here so you can decide whether it is worth a conversation.

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