One of the variations is the provision of a long timber sleeper retaining wall, 200mm from left hand side boundary. This is an engineering requirement. Glad that we have a fixed site cost. Otherwise, it will cost us a few grand.
Another building variation is the provision of a high balustrade on the left hand side of the balcony. This is due to the overlooking requirement of the estate. There is a restriction on our title which state that any habitable room within 3500mm from the boundary will need to be screened to avoid overlooking to our neighbour's block of land.
The high balustrade was initially supposed to be an etched toughened obscure glass like in the picture below. Although it is nice and modern, it doesn't match the Hamptons look of our facade.
Carlisle gave us the option to change it to an aluminium louvre like the one in the picture below. This balcony looks very much like the balcony of our facade and I think this matches the overall look of the Hampton facade that we are trying to achieve so we went for the louvre.
UPDATE (07/11/2018): The estate overrode this restriction and so it's back to the original design now... no more louvre screen. Yay!
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