The cabin of the Site Manager has gone and now the construction noise is back outside as the decking out the front and the tiny little bit of standing space is wedged between the buildings as our fence.
We are starting to get an amount of noise back although the Site Manager does their best to help.
The three houses on this side of the fence are waiting for a response from Urban Plus about visiting but after almost two weeks we are missing a reply, so I will contact them on Monday 4th of August.
As you can see the wooden platform facing our fencing is literally against the fence. No sign of the one metre gap.
Windows
In this post I thought I would showcase the kind of abuse being heaped on New Zealand homeowners around the country. Huge windows looking down on properties. This is common practice in the Hutt Valley at least with whole rows of very large windows looking down on once private gardens.
We were told the houses would be close to the fence but there would be a one metre gap. There isn't. With the back 'step' area and washing line, there will be no space at all between the property perimeter and us. None.
We were NOT told that we would have floor to ceiling windows towering over our property. Many others I know are in the same position you only have to look at the characterless 'new builds' around local to Tawhai Street and Glen Road.
I have been promised that the fence at ground level will be raised as it is much higher than originally planned and this is a real relief as at the moment who arrangement is very threatening as people could access our property with no effort at all.
This earlier image gives you an idea of the diameter of the concrete pipes being put in place and the reason the houses are a lot higher than the fence anticipated. Most of the concrete pipes were at least three times this tall.
This window (below) faces our garden.
We were NOT told that one of the rooms facing is a kitchen, not one of two bedrooms. We were not told the truth.
This is the base of the 'steps' before the floor is laid. You get an idea of how close to the fence their outside area will be.
This is where where the base for the residents to stand on to hang out their washing will be installed. I can lean over the fence and take a photo with no effort at all. The noise from the installation is not too loud although sometimes the pop music gets a bit much.
However, as our trees will soon ( I believe) be tall enough to block out most light and breeze I am not sure why the architect thinks this is a bright idea.
That said I have no respect for an architect who thinks full length windows towering over neighbouring properties is a really good idea. The same properties who made formal representation to the Council expressing their privacy concerns and had them totally ignored means we don't matter in the slightest.
The towering two stories are threatening and ugly.
We can also at the moment see into the neighbouring council properties living room (see below) although their privacy may valued more than ours and they may even get a fence around their tiny little deck. Who knows, because they won't tell the local community who are moving out in huge numbers (five so far at the lower end of Tawhai Street).
5 Tawhai Street was sold, and the utter confection of real estate nonsense has to be read to be believed. How about this...
"Nestled in a quiet and convenient neighbourhood, this spacious property offers everything your family needs and more."
Note to buyers. Tawhai Street is a busy road with a lot of development. Quiet it is not. The property faces the 19 house development of social houses currently being finished opposite. Yet they still trot out this absolute rubbish of "estate agent-ese".
This utter rubbish about the fictitious 'Glen' is pure estate agent's fantasy. The agents pushed the small and garden-less development on Glen Road with the same trite fiction. [FYI the nearest large supermarket is a car drive away. The local centre has inexpensive cafes and one small (friendly) supermarket, a dairy, a chemist and one lovely cafe that serves vegan food you will love].
The new development has a bus stop I don't see anyone using.
The 'swift sale sought' for number 6 Tawhai Street comes as no surprise. It is a gorgeous property that now faces three stories of tenement like proportions. Who would want to live opposite that? It has only taken since February 2022 for this development to complete.
Let's see what happens next.
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