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A city’s millionaires’ district has been divided by controversial construction projects that could block river views for some of its wealthiest citizens.
Event management company owner Liza Gay and her husband Geoff, the former owner of Staging Connections, last month lodged a formal complaint with Brisbane City Council about their Hamilton neighbors.
The couple say Michael John Cleary and his wife Mary Jo’s Eldernell Terrace home “will far exceed 9.5m in overall height” if their renovation plans are approved.
The Clearys plan to remove some of the house’s floor-to-ceiling glass panels and replace them with fiber cement sheets. Courier mail reports.
Some of Australia’s richest citizens are at war over plans to renovate 38 Eldernell Terrace (pictured), in Brisbane’s millionaires’ district.
Proposed renovations to the house (centre) would see its transparent panels replaced with opaque materials that could block their millionaire neighbors’ view of the Brisbane River.
They also want to replace some glass balustrades with steel and add “new steel-framed canopies with a solid roof and functional side protection” on a single level.
Switching from glass to opaque materials could block their neighbors’ view of the Brisbane River.
Mr and Mrs Gay say the work, if approved, will make the house “bossy”.
“We request that you place a ‘stop work order’ on the property until the application undergoes due process,” they wrote to the council.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleary purchased the home for $7.3 million in April 2023. The home itself was only built in 2019.
Michael John and Mary Jo Cleary purchased 38 Eldernell Terrace (pictured) for $7.3 million just under a year ago, in April 2023.
The house at 38 Eldernell Terrace was built in 2019 but neighbors fear its renovations could set “a worrying precedent”
Another neighbor – James Street Cru Bar co-owner Melanie Wing – also opposed the proposed renovations.
“The proposed development does not warrant consent and should be refused in its current form,” wrote Ms Wing, who lives in a 1930s house a few doors down from the Clearys.
“Supporting a building higher than 9.5m above the natural ground sets a worrying precedent.”