Adelaide couple have to demolish 700k home

Work the entire history of the case given, the essence is Still missing.

How are the residents affected by this development?

Seems like totally unnecessary. I think people have a lot of free time.

 

It’s true people just complain about anything.
We had neighbours attending a council meeting to oppose one of our developments. It was knocked back as a result

We took it to court and won and it went through. There was no basis to reject it and lots of precedence to allow it to get through.

2 years after it was developed and leased, my husband was at the properties (there were 3) doing something and one of the neighbours approached him to ask how she would go about developing her block and how much profit margin was in such a development.

He looked at her and said “didn’t you oppose this development in a council meeting?” Why did you do that?

She just answered “I don’t know”?

We are living in a world were people believe bacon is being banned to appease muslims (no one is banning bacon ffs!!!!!)

Yes too much time, too much hate, not enough education, not enough ability to just allow.

 

@Bob McGivern - strategic planting of fast tall growing trees across the rear boundaries may increase privacy.

The streetview, although not pretty, isn't ghastly but why spend money on the street frontage when all of the view is to the rear which is where @Bob McGivern has the issue.

@Bob McGivern - what action are you taking against council? Does SA have an equivalent to ICAC? Do the neighbours have any links to the past/present councillors which may not have been disclosed?

 

Wow! Talk about spiteful. Made me laugh actually.

 

I had 12 objections on my last Melb project, most nonsense.
Just employed a gun townplanner, blew them off

Even objected to the fact that there would be additional bins on the street on pick up day....what the hell... get a life

 

Many Nandos dont sell bacon....To avoid offending certain customers.

 

Not selling bacon offends me because I like it.

Back on topic Paul - what happens with CGT if you built a property (lets assume it was for investment, not sure what it was for in this particular thread), were told to demolish it and start again. Would interest be payable over both periods assuming intending to rent?

 

I have objected to several adjoining devs. Not to have them stopped. But to have commonsense planning changes implemented. I was invited by one applicant (Coles) and I helped design the centre expansion so it was twice the area's their idea. They were stunned...I explained I dont oppose it I just want a good development. I then got all the whingy neighbours to see its merits. They all liked it too. The result exceeded both of our expectations. They saved a lot of coin too since my suggestion was a single level centre and not split levels. They put all the parking under it instead.

Another was a block of units. They redesigned it and removed all the stupid issues (pool and gym facing neighbours with a common party room) and some neighbours were silly but at Council conciliation many of us agreed it was no longer a concern. Approved and owner thanks us. Been there 7 years and looks good and hasnt harmed values or privacy (the 8 metre setback helped)

The process for objection is too often seen as objection to have things refused. It should be seen as objection to ensure better design and property use.

I dont know why more architects etc dont see what neigbours think first. Moving a driveway etc can make all the difference to the one complaint.

 

You gonna make a big loss but if its your home its exempt as well. If its a dedicated IP the costs of defending the asset existence and title may also be CGT asset costs. One hell of a CGT loss.

The issue I see is you got the same ****** land and nothing on it. Why not trim it down so it complies ?? Explains why its not landscaped !

Everything tastes better with bacon. (In USA I even saw a cereal with bacon pieces.- Another with marshmallow. Urrrrr)

 

@Paul@PFI
NIMBYs that's why.
But also greedy developers.
I objected to my neighbour, but instead of addressing concerns they tried to take even more of the pss. In the end they got rejected at LEC level. Silly developer.

 

I am just finishing up a 2 storey house build completely within the rules. My neighbour opposes it and has been to council and three government ministers to have it bulldozed. He's not happy that no one is listening to him.

 

I’m glad
I think people just want to be heard and feel important because they are not