Dear Editor,
My elderly uncle, who lives in Queenstown, was just told by the city council that he has to remove a few bricks he put on the parapet to prevent big trucks from destroying the grass. However, just a couple of streets away the owners of a large house on the corner of Peter Rose and Forshaw Street have recently installed a permanent concrete border around “their” parapet just a few inches from the street. I think this goes against the law, is an eye sore and is extremely dangerous for traffic.
Who in city council authorizes such constructions? Shouldn’t all residents be given the same treatment by city council?
Yours faithfully,
(name and address supplied)
Editor’s note
The parapets are not owned by householders and they are not entitled to encumber them. The practice of building on them or ‘taking them in’ is quite unlawful.
