A Sydney woman's dream of achieving an off-grid lifestyle is facing a hurdle due to council restrictions preventing the installation of street-facing solar panels.
Council restrictions mean no solar panels can go on the street-facing roof.Dr Laura Ryan was denied approval to install street-facing solar panels because her house is in a heritage conservation zone. Because of the aspect of her house, Dr Ryan needs the front solar panels before she can go fully off-grid.The Inner West Council mayor says the rules are being reviewed to make it easier for people to install street-facing solar panels .
A Sydney woman trying to make her inner-city house entirely off-grid has had a major breakthrough, with her local council announcing it's reviewing rules that prevent owners from putting solar panels on street-facing roofs. When Dr Laura Ryan bought her 1890s workers cottage in Newtown eight years ago, she had an ambitious plan to transform it into an entirely sustainable house. That meant providing her own water, sewage and electricity — no easy feat in one of the densest urban environments in the country. She hoped that by proving it was possible, it would provide other keen renovators with a blueprint to follow suit. 'Pretty much every single has said that it's the impossible house,' Dr Ryan told Grand Designs Australia.'But I kept looking for people that would give me a glimmer of hope and I'm working with those people.Incinerating toilet which produces a cup of ash a weekGreywater system for use in the garden and washing machine After successfully sorting out how to bring her plan to life, she faced a final roadblock in 2021 when she submitted her development application.'I can't go off-grid unless I get solar panels on the front roof, but the council won't let me do that so that's really, really frustrating,' Dr Ryan said.Dr Laura Ryan's ambitious off-grid home was eight years in the making.Adding to Dr Ryan's frustration, a couple of streets away in the City of Sydney Council, the rules do allow for front-facing panel
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