I write about issues I have been experiencing with Snowy Monaro Regional Council regarding impact to my property. After the subdivision of 22 and 24 Cromwell Street Cooma NSW, a survey was taken. A second survey, taken before any building work on 24a Cromwell Street began, matched that taken originally. When I sold my original house at 20 Cromwell Street Cooma, the new owners took many photographs that match the survey along the 20/24a boundary. Two years after their purchase, they removed soil to lower the land on their side of the boundary adjacent to my balcony and took a new collection of photos of their new land levels. Neighbours then alleged that I had raised the level on my land across the boundary. The neighbour’s own original photos and professional survey of 24a contradict that allegation. Despite my protests, council declined to release their own records. It took the intervention of the legal branch of the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal for council eventually to release the bogus claims neighbours reported, stories on which council had acted without checking. Council staff involved still remain silent. Short term CEO filed my records, unread, and threatened to place me on council’s unreasonable complainants conduct register. Where is a councillor who will check my records? Janet Stalvies Cooma
