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Originally Posted by Jodi
Building houses is easy, but building the water, power, sewage, comms, roading, stormwater, footpaths and cyclelanes cost a fuckton. And unless I'm wrong, it's the council that pays for _most_ of that, not the house builder.
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Normally a subdivision developer will pay for all of that stuff within the subdivision boundary. Sometimes more (Eg: Millwater had to pay for the new motorway offramp nearby).
Once complete, the operation of said services is handed over to the council or authority within a year or two.
But yea, the council has to pay to expand their feed services to support said subdivisions.