Residents of one of Australia’s most exclusive beach enclaves are pushing for new rules to stop oversized mansions swallowing their neighbourhood amid a post-COVID building boom.
Home owners in one of Australia’s most exclusive beach enclaves could be hit with new building limits amid concern oversized mansions are swallowing the neighbourhood.
“On top of pushing right to the nine-metre limit, and in some cases going over, they are also undertaking massive excavation into the hillside. “When you look at what has been built previously … the houses worked with the contours of the land,” she said. “They were nestled into the cove.“Now, they dig out the whole boundary and excavate the entire block … they are changing the natural watercourses, and the infrastructure is not here to deal with that.”
He said knocking a metre off the height limit and limiting excavation would stop developers squeezing concrete, multistorey houses onto steep sites that were more suited to the lighter-framed houses traditionally built in the area.“With a nine-metre height limit and permissive excavation, you can get a building looking like five storeys easily on a steep block,” he said.
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