There’s a letter in our local newspaper from someone who’s not too happy with “the unrelenting building frenzy in our suburbs”. He says: “… it has turned residential areas into de facto industrial estates where townhouses, small-lot pseudo-Queenslanders and other trendy, money-grabbing, soulless architecture is manufactured.” I agree that there is too much ugly profiteering …
Four angry residents in Buderim on the Sunshine Coast have successfully halted the construction of a $25 million mansion. The neighbours have put $60,000 together to fight the court battle on the basis that it allegedly breached by-laws and affected their views. The designer of the home, Kate Dillon, isn’t happy about it: “It’s quite …