Gudism - we live in an absolutely brilliant pro-development council. They have a grand plan for this town that involves pretty serious expansion so there are small and large subdivisions all over the town, and some have been required to build roads and run power like you said as you need street frontage here to subdivide. They let us subdivide our block despite it being 1m too narrow and not complying with modern building codes (the existing house was ON the boundary and has two windows on the boundary wall - it was built in about 1900). We can have gravel driveways! We've created a tonne (if not several) of demolition rubble fixing the old house but most of it has disappeared as neighbours ask to take it for scrap metal, firewood, building their own stuff etc.
I'd love to build a duplex here. That might be a good option for the OP - get a wide block (check council development plan as to how wide - here you need a 20m wide block to do it and there's plenty of blocks that size available), build what is effectively two long, thin houses joined in the middle at a common firewall under one roof but with separate electricity and water meters, and after the house is finished you can subdivide it into two titles at your leisure, taking it from a dual occupancy duplex to a strata or even a plain old torrens titled duplex.
I have no idea how that would work for financing though, you'd probably all need to go on the one loan to do that and then buy each other's halves out when you subdivide it later. And you'd have to be damn sure you can subdivide it later or you won't be able to have your *own* halves.
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