Yesterday a resident of another suburb told me about the legal fight brewing with a neighbour and city over a resident's house - the structure was completed months ago - that departed from the building and zoning regulations and approved plans and ignored neighbours' objections, i.e., their refusal to approve a waiver. But the city allowed building work to proceed and the structure to be completed. I've seen it. It's ostentatious and inappropriate for that stretch of "garden route". The complainant tells me the city apparently fined the owner but claims there is now "nothing" they can do - they say they can't order the owner to demolish the illegal building work. The last point is nonsense because there is legal precedent that illegal structures can be demolished. (Incidentally, illegal structures in informal settlements are regularly demolished). A friend refused to sign a waiver for a neighbour to build a granny flat abuttin...