It is not the Building Inspector who decides. The Building Inspector ensures that buildings are built according to plan. Unfortunately due to a fire in the 1920s, at the Obs Hall, most original plans were destroyed. New Building plans go to the Planning Tribunal.( As with all garage sites an EIA will also have to be conducted as there could be fuel leakage from the tanks, when the garage site is developed.) So sending this to the Building Inspector has little value at this stage. The proper channel is the Health Inspector for both the garage site and the other properties you are concerned about..
From: obsnw@googlegroups.com [mailto:obsnw@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Calder Sent: 07 August 2015 01:14 AM To: The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch Subject: [obsnw] Re: Potential Hazardous Situation These two images from google maps are outdated. They were taken in December 2009. Today there are at least 3 more dwellings on this stretch of the property that belongs to 7 and 7a Donne Sreet, Observatory. The building inspector has not replied to my email yet. Are you happy with this? I'm not. Is this a mark of the standards we want? Did the building inspector pass this structure based on approved plans? Is this a healthy and safe environment to build on? On Sunday, August 2, 2015 at 6:40:33 PM UTC+2, Jenny Calder wrote: While we were patrolling the other night, we decided to have a look at the old Caltex garage which is on Main Road between Rochester and Polo Roads. I don't know how long it has been abandoned now, but there are squatters living in the buildings. I doubt if they have running water so one can only imagine what it looks like in there. We also had reports of people sleeping in the huge petrol holding tanks which have been removed from the ground and are on top. We found a black male in there who had put newspaper on the windows as curtains, and he was very aggresive towards us. Then walking back down Polo Road, we had another look at the little plot wedged between the Caltex garage and the first houses on Donne Street from Polo Road side, opposite 65 Polo Road as per map below, there is a now sizeable squatter camp that has been there over the years. I don't know who owns the property but those shacks did not get passed by any building inspector. I might bet on that. Diagonally over the road from there,on the corner of Polo and Main Roads, is a block of flats above the Duchess clothing store. This block of flats is renowned for drug dealers I heard recently. I know this is not a crime situation yet but it certainly is a fertile breeding ground for one and has the potential of another Trump Towers. Do we want that? I don't think so, as of this date, Trump Towers is still a problem that we don't seem to be able to get rid of. 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