Page 2854 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 14 August 2019
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are again putting in place orders for clean up; and we believe this has happened many times before only to revert back to the continual over hoarding and mess.
Apart from the eyesore and devaluing to the area, we also have safety concerns that one day a child may be playing on the public land and may get locked in one of the appliances causing injury or worse.
Here is another piece of correspondence:
We have lived in close vicinity to these dreadful conditions in excess of 25 years. We wonder if this distressing issue would continue for quite so long if it was occurring in a house adjunct to a Canberra public landmark or even an MLA’s residence.
Another email states:
Whilst I was happy to receive this notification the occupants of the property obviously have no interest in compliance with the order.
There has barely been a day where there has not been whitegoods stored in the front of the property and they have now taken to storing them in trailers out the front and side. I am pretty sure that the trailers are unregistered also.
The whitegoods are now beginning to appear on the unleased land beside the property again.
This order must be enforced and continually monitored as the occupants do not care and show little regard for the directions within the order. Just do your job please - a piece of paper ordering them to do something is worthless without enforcement. There is 20 years of previous behaviour to reference how little regard they have for the law and their neighbours so they should not be granted any leeway to adjust their behaviour.
This is what residents have to deal with—years of inaction and no enforcement. It is very real.
I will now read an excerpt from a letter of 13 February this year from Minister Gordon Ramsay to a constituent:
I can confirm on 21 December 2018 Public Health Officers conducted an inspection … and found a number of white goods—
we are talking hundreds—
fish tanks and other containers that contained stagnant water and as a result had the potential to encourage mosquito breeding. The occupier was advised to empty water from all containers and to keep all containers without lids turned upside down. Upon follow up inspections on 24 December 2018 and 2 January 2019, Officers identified that the occupier had emptied all containers and covered fish tanks as instructed.
That is the level of enforcement—turn the containers upside down and put the lid on the washing machine. We are talking about hundreds of whitegoods here. It is just not
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