By Cameron Lucadou-Wells
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GEORGE Petralis’s vegie patch is usually a bountiful source of zucchinis, peppers and fresh foods in summer.
But he fears a proposed three-storey apartment block just metres north of his back fence in Jeffers Street, Noble Park, will block the morning sun and put an end to his cultivated paradise.
The Princes Highway development was approved by Greater Dandenong Council last Monday, along with another block of apartments in Douglas Street.
Also gone for Mr Petralis will be any privacy, with possibly two storeys of balconies towering above his fenceline.
Mr Petralis, who has lived in the predominantly single-storey neighbourhood with his wife for 24 years, plans to appeal the council’s approval of the flats.
Cr Peter Brown opposed to the plan, saying 1.7-metre-tall glazed balcony enclosures were a “half-hearted effort of concealment”.
He said it would not stop people “peering into Mrs Nobbs’s [figure of speech] backyard and look at her washing”.
A council report recommending approval stated the plan “appropriately responds” to the council’s strategic policy for residential development on Princes Highway.
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