"It's not a massive project, and it just blows the timelines out, and it makes it hard to one for us provide clear communication to the client for when we might be able to come in and start the work."
"And it also just makes it really hard for us to plan out the rest of our projects as well,"he said.
"We're flying blind at the moment, and I can't confidently say to a client when we're going to be on site, because there's just so much red tape,"Mr Duffy said.
"At the end of the day, they're just going to build it themselves … and have an unapproved structure on their house,"he said.
"The problem for the little trades that you see here is that they want to start jobs, and they've got a schedule, they've got a calendar, and as those approvals are stopped and started and stopped and started, it pushes them out, and they lose a bit of confidence in the process."
"Having to wait seven weeks from the tree protection unit to get back to us on whether they're going to approve our application or they need more information, I think we can just do that better. And as a builder, we just want to get on and do our jobs."