Our sea views now, reading from left to right; up the coast . . .
. . . straight out . . .
. . . and out to the right. I ask you, with tears dripping from my baby-blue eyes, how that monster has been allowed when there are supposed to be strict building restrictions? It seems to have stretched to about 4 storeys and covered most of the plot since I last reported. The immediate neighbours are furious, but their squeals fall upon deaf ears. Bribery? Corruption? Apathy? Who can say. I am going to need to prune the tops of those trees on the left rather heavily to restore some sort of splashy outlook.
© June 2019 Colonialist
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Could almost be Sydney, happens so often here, what you’ve been dudded with;
I look at your views I can see why, those pictures could be anywhere on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, uncanny
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That building itself seems to be glaring defiantly at you.
Probably not the new neighbors you will invite over for barbecue.
(Enjoyed the pictures – Although you have hills and we are so flat, we have some similar plants. Lost a palm like the one in the second picture- it finally gave up after months of struggling from frost winter before last. Love those long palm fingers waving in the wind.)
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I would love to respond to the house glare with a bazooka. Palms in Durban can relax on the frost front. It simply doesn’t happen here. Actually, I hope that one doesn’t get too enthusiastic and take out even more seaview,
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I think a few palms were greased. 😦
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Put in a complaint in writing to the town planners and include photographs.
Is that a single residence? Looks almost like flats.
Surely a building like that would need permission to rezone or if a residence legal issues regarding height restrictions / blocking view.
There must have been/should have been notices posted prior to commencing of building.
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That is how it should work.
That is how it doesn’t.
People like this are a law unto themselves, and unless one has a limitless budget resisting the development, however against bylaws it may by, is tantamount to bashing ones head against the bricks of it. Our previous experience of the same took it as far as we were able to go, and resulted in the whole thing being halted, but a nice mixture of bribery and threats quickly got rid of the officialdom. The court case went away,
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That’s awful! I would be furious if I moved somewhere that offered a fantastic view only for it to be blocked by such an eyesore due to thoughtless and careless contractors!
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Oh, I am sure the contractors are simply following orders of the owner who has the ‘show-off’ syndrome, or who, perhaps, wants to accommodate an entire extended family there!
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Possibly, but you would think they would question it. And who provided the permission to build? They too are at fault.
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Contractors are interested in their bottom line, Permission may or may not have been provided. I have it on hearsay that one response was, ‘Just try and stop me.’
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That’s an arrogant response.
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It certainly is! One that makes one wish one possessed the means to take the legalities all the way to forcing every brick to be dismantled.
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I hear that!
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Commiserations, Col, not a happy outlook at all.
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In fact, a greatly curtailed outlook! Apart from everything else, it Is indicative of a totally selfish outlook on the part of that owner. The development is gone ahead with without any consideration for the wellbeing of those in neighbouring properties.
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I agree
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So unfair and so wrong. They say you can’t buy a view, but in many instances that’s exactly what we pay for. Such a pity town planners don’t take that into consideration when granting permission for new builds and extensions!
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The thing is, has permission here been granted in terms of bylaws, bought, or simply ignored?
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That’s a tricky one for you!
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And for all those more intimately involved. Hearsay has it that objections lodged by those loomed over have just been ignored.
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I may have clicked LIKE but just add a DIS in front. 😦
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I know what you mean!
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All of the above, I’d wager.
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I was about to comment the exact same!
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Sad experience makes one cynical, indeed.
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I wouldn’t take you on, for that bet. Exactly what I assume.
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