Eyesore at tipping point
NEW aerial pictures show the full extent of the mess at a Wallington property that has forced the City of Greater Geelong to take legal action.
The council announced this month it would launch court action to force a Wallington hoarder to clean up the multiple car wrecks, furniture, caravans, whitegoods and hard waste littering the property.
Drone images taken this week show more than 30 cars and caravans strewn across paddocks surrounding the Wallington Rd home.
The CoGG revealed it would pursue legal action against the landowner after last year issuing a fire prevention notice and initiating compliance action under the
Neighbourhood
Local Law 2014.
The council resolved to initiate legal action over the owner’s failure to comply with a fire prevention notice.
A court date is still to be fixed.
Mayor Stephanie Asher, who travels past the eyesore daily from her home in Ocean Grove, said the property was an unwelcome sight.
“I am limited in what I can say, given there is court action in the wind,” she said.
“It’s something we do have to be sensitive about.
“While you can look at it in a clinical fashion, it’s also something that I think the officers have been working really carefully on with a view to the individual being assisted as best they can be to reduce the
Amenity amount of stress and actual stuff. It’s a tricky one.”
Neighbours last year voiced serious concerns, saying the site, which is 600m from Wallington Primary School, was an eyesore and a fire hazard.
One Ocean Grove resident said the rubbish initially started with a shipping container and cars parked on the road, but in the past two months had “ramped up”.
The site was formerly the Wallington post office, with residents complaining part of the town’s history had been desecrated.
Another resident said the rubbish had grown by a third in the past few weeks.
“I know a lot of people that hate it. I hate it every time I drive up the road,” the resident said.