It took about a month after response for council to finally start advertising.
Apparently they went out to site prior to advertising which my draftsman thought odd, as they normally do it after. Maybe they wanted to check out the street trees? Pity it's nearing winter and all the leaves have fallen off!
Anyway, advertising closed after 2 weeks on Jun 6.
The next door neighbours conveniently wrote a letter of support - but I found out today that council had initially misread it as an objection! They are now aware it was not.
So now I'm waiting for a response.
Waiting, waiting, everything takes so long.
Good thing I'm not in a rush. Sort of. My roof sprung a leak last month with heavy rains, and apparently the whole roof needs replacing. Just needs to last this winter rain...