Granny flat Bendigo — site-built quality,
fixed price from $121k inc GST.

E2ES Bendigo uses VIC fixed build prices: 34 m² $121,000 inc GST · 60 m² $170,500 inc GST. The price is all in — site preparation, trenching and connection to existing water, power, sewer and stormwater, the slab and site clean-up are included, and variations only arise if you ask for customisation. Additional published models: 80 m² $218,900 inc GST · 80 m² Premium $253,000 inc GST · 80 m² Premium + 20 m² Enclosed Garage $275,000 inc GST · 300 m² Rooming House $748,000 inc GST. Layouts, specifications and timing are to be confirmed; register your interest in the configurator.

Worth comparing properly. Modular and transportable units are factory-built and trucked in — they need crane or wide-vehicle access and the advertised price usually excludes transport, crane, footings, service connections and permits. Kit granny flats leave the slab, trades and compliance to you. E2ES builds on-site to a fixed, fully-finished price that already includes design, permits, slab, services and handover — and site-built construction can be engineered to the BAL bushfire standard many Bendigo-fringe blocks require. We'll put a like-for-like written comparison in front of you at the free site assessment.

For a secondary dwelling in Bendigo, the approval pathway depends on the zone, overlays and site conditions. Since 15 October 2026, Amendment VC306 defines a small second dwelling (Clause 73.03) as a self-contained home of up to 80 m² total floor area on the same lot as an existing dwelling — up from 60 m² under VC253. In the main residential zones no planning permit is needed on a lot of 300 m² or more when there is no more than one existing dwelling, it is the only small second dwelling and it is not connected to reticulated gas, unless an overlay, a covenant or a Section 173 agreement says otherwise; a lot under 300 m² needs a permit. A building permit is always required, and the Building Regulations 2018 (version 031) still define a small second dwelling as no more than 60 m² and keep the siting, private-open-space and access-path rules (regs 74A, 86A and 86B), so the building surveyor must confirm the building pathway for any design over 60 m². We confirm the applicable planning pathway, survey and service requirements before agreeing the project scope and programme in writing. Local checks include Strathfieldsaye, Huntly and Maiden Gully; bushfire controls near the box-ironbark fringe; rural zoning around Heathcote, Marong and Mount Alexander; and heritage controls in central Bendigo and Castlemaine. Bushfire construction requirements depend on the assessed property.

Yes. We service the surrounding towns and rural blocks listed on this page. Local checks include Strathfieldsaye, Huntly and Maiden Gully; bushfire controls near the box-ironbark fringe; rural zoning around Heathcote, Marong and Mount Alexander; and heritage controls in central Bendigo and Castlemaine. Bushfire construction requirements depend on the assessed property. Check the actual zone, overlays, setbacks, earthworks and building requirements; a rural label alone does not settle the planning pathway.

It depends on the block. Residential lots that need no planning permit (most of urban Bendigo under the small second dwelling rules — VC253, as amended by VC306): 4 weeks of paperwork plus 3 months of construction. Lots on the permit pathway — rural zones, BMO or Heritage Overlay — get a written timeline after the free site assessment rather than a one-size-fits-all promise.

The direct path is the 60 m² Two-Bedroom leased room-by-room, staying within the occupant thresholds that apply to a shared single dwelling in Victoria. We confirm which option fits your block, in writing, at the free site assessment.

Yes — OptimaRea, our sister property management company, operates across the Bendigo region. Most clients hand the tenancy over on handover day: we advertise at the suburb-specific target rent confirmed at your site assessment, place the tenant, and manage the tenancy long-term under the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 (Vic).

No. E2ES does not supply kit, transportable or relocatable units and is not a kit-home seller. What it delivers in Bendigo is a finished dwelling built on site on an engineered concrete slab — or, for the Modular Premium, factory-built panels installed on the same permanent slab — at one fixed price, all in: $121,000 inc GST for the 34 m² one-bedroom home and $170,500 inc GST for the 60 m² two- or three-bedroom home, with design, the building permit, site preparation, trenching, connection to existing services, the slab, site clean-up and basic landscaping included and the agreed contract price fixed during the build. If you are comparing a kit price, ask what sits outside it: in our July 2026 Melbourne survey the kit and supply-and-build bundles excluded the stumps or slab, the building permit and council fees, the utility connections, the soil test and painting. The modular, transportable, kit and site-built methods are compared honestly on /modular-granny-flat, and the fixed-price scope is set out on /granny-flat-cost.