New Custom Homes in Milton

A building permit with architectural, structural, mechanical and energy-compliance drawings and a grading and servicing plan, plus any minor variance or conservation permit the lot triggers. The Town of Milton Building Division issues the building permit and, at the end, the occupancy permit, and inspects the build in between. Milton’s Site Alteration By-law 094-2022 applies across the town, including residential lots, with exemptions for minor landscaping and driveway maintenance. Because a new house moves far more earth than landscaping, we read the by-law against the grading plan before the application goes in.

If the lot is inside the regulated area of Conservation Halton, yes. Under Ontario’s Conservation Authorities Act, building a house or grading a site in hazardous lands, wetlands, river or stream valleys or shorelines at risk of flooding or erosion needs the authority’s permit, because O. Reg. 41/24 counts both as development. Beside a valley with stable slopes, the regulated area runs to the stable top of the bank plus 15 metres, which can decide where on the lot the house goes. The Conservation Halton permit comes first, then the Milton building permit.

Yes. We take on new custom homes across Milton, including Old Milton and Timberlea, within an hour of our Richmond Hill office. The first consultation is free, by phone or on site.

Three things to start: lot address and a survey, if you have one; your sketch, brief or a plan from another designer; and whether the lot is serviced or needs a well and septic. Send those and we tell you what the Town of Milton Building Division will ask for before we quote.

For a lot in Milton’s urban area it is Zoning By-law No. 016-2014; a rural lot has its own by-law. We take the height, coverage and setback limits from the one that applies, plot them on the survey and design the house inside what they leave. Where the design needs relief, a minor variance goes to Milton’s Committee of Adjustment first, because the Town of Milton Building Division cannot issue a permit for a house that does not meet the zoning.

They can. Digging the basement and trenching for services can damage roots well out from the trunk, and for a tree standing wholly on the lot, the Town of Milton suggests a certified arborist’s advice before removing it. A property over 0.5 hectares, or wholly inside the Regional Greenlands System, also falls under Halton Region’s tree removal regulations. We plot the trees from the survey and site the house to keep the ones you want, before the plans go to the Town of Milton Building Division.

Yes, where the lot has municipal water and sewer and the house is a type Milton’s unit rules name. We draw the basement with its own entrance, ceiling height and fire separation in the first set, so the Town of Milton Building Division reviews the unit as part of the house permit instead of as a later conversion. The mechanical design heats and ventilates the two units separately from the start.

Which zoning by-law covers it and what it allows, before the offer is firm. We check whether the lot is under By-law No. 016-2014 or the rural No. 144-2003, whether it has municipal water and sewer, since Milton’s urban unit rules apply only to serviced lots, and whether Conservation Halton’s regulated area reaches it. Our director, a broker of record, can also tell you how a finished house there would compare with what has sold nearby.

We do, and the old house needs a permit of its own. Ontario’s Building Code Act requires a permit to demolish a building just as it does to build one, so for a teardown in Old Milton or anywhere else in town, we file the demolition application with the Town of Milton Building Division together with the new house. Demolition starts only once its own permit is issued.

Yes. We open the file in the Amanda Permit Portal, the Town of Milton’s online permit service, where the applicant can sign in and check its status. When the examiners at the Town of Milton Building Division comment on more than one discipline, we revise the affected architectural, structural and mechanical sheets together and upload them as one package.