Custom Home Builders in The Sutherland Shire

Yes. CKS Projects takes on custom homes, knockdown rebuilds, duplexes, second storeys and major renovations across Sutherland Shire, from Cronulla, Caringbah and Miranda to Sylvania, Menai and Engadine. Our office is in Unanderra, south of the Shire, and we do not have a Shire office. Keiron Moore comes to your site for the assessment. Whether we can take on your project depends on the block and on current capacity, which we confirm on the first call.

Our published projects are in the Illawarra and on the South Coast, and we do not yet have a completed Shire project in the gallery. The work is directly comparable: Wombarra Clifftops is an award-winning knockdown rebuild on a clifftop, the Huskisson Duplex is two homes on one block, and Ocean Windang was raised and split-levelled to meet flood requirements. Each project page names its real suburb.

Sutherland Shire Council is the consent authority for DAs. The main planning instrument is the Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015, and the detailed controls are in the Sutherland Shire Development Control Plan 2015, which has chapters for dwelling houses, dual occupancy and foreshore and waterway development. Which controls affect your lot is shown on its section 10.7 planning certificate and on council’s Shire Maps, which we check at the site assessment.

Often, yes, if the lot is big enough. Council permits dual occupancies with consent in the R2, R3 and R4 zones and in some C3, C4 and E1 areas. In the R2 zone the lot must be greater than 600 m², and in the C4 zone larger than 700 m². In R2 and R3, an accredited certifier can approve a dual occupancy as complying development; otherwise it needs a DA. Subdividing the finished pair adds its own standards. See our duplex builders page for how the build works.

On many Port Hacking and Georges River lots, yes. The foreshore building line is shown on council’s LEP maps, and the foreshore area is the land between that line and the mean high-water mark. Council says a new house is usually not permitted in the foreshore area, although jetties, boatsheds and waterway access stairs can be approved. A DA on an affected lot must show the line on the survey plan, so we plot it before the design starts.

Get the bushfire rating first. For complying development on bushfire-prone land you need a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) certificate from council, which council suggests getting before you design. If the rating is BAL-40 or BAL-FZ, the project needs a DA rather than a CDC. The rating also sets the construction standard for the home, so it shapes both the design and the price.

Often, yes, but the flood level shapes the design. Council’s Shire Maps show flood-prone land, and a flood notation can appear on the 10.7 certificate. For complying development, every flood-affected property in the Shire is treated as a flood control lot, and council can issue a flood information certificate for a lot. At Ocean Windang in the Illawarra, the extension was raised four steps and designed as a split level to meet council flood requirements.

Yes. A knockdown rebuild keeps your land and your street and replaces the house. Services are disconnected, the existing home is demolished, any asbestos is removed by a licensed contractor, and the new home is built, all under one contract. In established suburbs such as Gymea, Jannali and Caringbah it is often weighed against a second storey, and we can price both. The knockdown rebuild process is set out step by step.

In many cases, yes. A first-floor addition keeps you in your suburb and on your lot, and it is often the alternative to a rebuild. The existing structure has to be checked by an engineer, and the approval pathway depends on the zone and the lot’s constraints. At the Warilla Beach House we turned a single-storey home into a two-storey beach house with a first-floor addition.

It depends on the lot and the design, so we quote each build at a fixed price after the site assessment and design. The price moves with the size and finish of the home, slope and access, demolition and asbestos, the approval pathway, and controls such as bushfire construction standards. The Shire is in Greater Sydney for the NSW Housing and Productivity Contribution, which is $11,269.04 per new dwelling (as at 1 October 2026). Our duplex cost guide breaks down a full budget line by line.

Yes. They are trading names of CKS Projects Aust Pty Ltd for work in Sutherland Shire and southern Sydney. The licence, the team, the fixed-price contract and the person who assesses your site are the same: Keiron Moore and CKS Projects.

Book a free site assessment through our contact page or phone 02 4271 5132. Keiron Moore meets you on site, looks at your lot and your brief, checks the controls that apply in the Shire, and tells you what the lot allows before you spend anything on design. If it suits, the next step is design and then a fixed-price tender.