Granny flats QLD – Backyard Pods for Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Great news for QLD residents with granny flats now allowed for renting to tenants. The idea is to help ease the accommodation crisis in Queensland with more people moving to places like Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast from down south. You’ve seen the stories on Channel 9 News, and Channel 7 News, talking about the ‘explosion’ in secondary dwellings that’s about to happen in the Sunshine State, but the changes are only bringing QLD more into line with NSW where secondary dwellings have been allowed for a long time to help provide more low-cost rentals by repurposing unused suburban backyard space.

We’ve been helping QLD customers with their backyard building projects for many years and while some people have built a secondary dwelling to accommodate extended family, it’s the ability to rent out the secondary dwelling to an unrelated party – just like a separate investment property – that’s the big game-changer with the new regulations.

“Our prefab granny flat options are suitable for homeowners throughout Queensland. They are cyclone-rated as standard, so they can be delivered, approved, and occupied or rented at practically any location between the NSW border and the Gulf of Carpentaria,” said Melanie Williamson, founder of Backyard Pods and one of the first to enter the frontier of tiny houses, secondary dwellings, and backyard studios when the sector began. “The prefab option is the easiest way and fastest way for people to get a rentable granny flat on their property, where crane access is available. The buildings are delivered complete with the interior fitted-out, all pre-wired and pre-plumbed, so in principle, it’s basically plug-and-play once the customer has been through the precertification process.”

 

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Not every property has the access needed for crane delivery of a prefab granny flat, which is where the flatpack building kits from Backyard Pods offer unbeatable versatility.

“With our flatpack building kits, people can have any design or colour scheme they want. The kits represent a blank box for starters. Windows, doors, verandas, decks, interior layouts – some people get very creative with their custom designs. Others will copy or take inspiration from a project done by one of our other customers, or one of the architects in our network can help them refine their design plans in the process, at very low cost and with great understanding of the practicalities involved with building rentable secondary dwellings.”

Helpful tips for designing a rentable granny flat

1. Orientation – if you’re building a poolhouse, backyard office, rumpus room, teenage retreat, or accommodation for extended family, you might want to give the occupants an open outlook or a view over the backyard. When building a granny flat for rental purposes, you might want to consider positioning the granny flat so that the entrance is on the side, facing the fence, with the windows placed higher, to preserve privacy for members of the main household enjoying the backyard space.
2. Storage – you can never have too much storage, particularly in a tiny house or granny flat. Take stock of the items people normally need for self-contained living, then look at your design and ask yourself common-sense questions like, “Where would they put their vacuum cleaner, mop, broom, ironing board?”

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