Building and bores

We talked with the TDC (Tasman District Council - those in charge of consents) about our property, hence the title of this post. Sounds like putting in a residential bore should be no problem - 5 cu meters a day. That's heaps of water! Plus, we are thinking that we would want to get a storage tank to fill up and use as a water bank. Running out of water absolutely sucks. I've been there (when a certain little someone left a behind-the-shed hose running... for days!) and would prefer to never do it again. Unfortunately, a bore for irrigation use might be more of a problem, but we'll get ourselves on the waiting list and hope for the best.

You don't need to irrigate grapes, but they would produce more quickly if we did. The expense of a bore would certainly pay for itself if we were able to get a decent harvest a year earlier. The other concern is water for filling the spray tank... and rinsing off equipment. Lots of water is good. Very good.

Now, for the building part... Because our site is zoned as Rural 1, we are allowed one residential unit and one sleepout. A sleepout is defined as 36m2 or less with no cooking facilities. The guy I talked to suggested that whatever we build initially, we add on to create the final house. this doesn't really appeal to us. We just don't want to be rushed into building our final house. We'll look into things with an architect (when we find one), but are trying to think up other solutions. In the end, we would love to have our proper house with an unattached office/sleepout/"man cave". Maybe we could build the sleepout, along with a lockable garage (for the extra furniture) and set up a separate kitchen unit that could be dismantled later on. Any ideas?