Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

[shaunous]

Aftet his birthday party on the weekend, at 3am after we all consumed a few hundred gallons of cider, I can assure you he was that ressonable...actually he wasnt anything...

I had to cover the big fella up on the lounge in the shed.

Hahaha, i wondered where the hell that little blanket come from, cheers Stu.

That damn cider gets me everytime, also the rum didnt help.

 

[shaunous]

OK... enough of this namby pamby football stuff. Time for a proper rant. I have mentioned previously how much I hate my insane animal hoarder neighbor and her dogs. My hatred had ratcheted up a few notches.

Those who follow my insane ravings will know that I am building a shed. A majestic shed with space for my brewery. Sheds are in our council area an exempt development. this means you don't need to talk to council about putting one up. Except that my frickin neighbor calls the council and complains about me putting up an illegal granny flat. Now it is a majestic shed but its not that big...you would need to have a pretty small granny. No one in their right mind could mistake my shed, majestic though it is, for anything other than a shed.

The upshot is that since a complaint has been received its no longer an exempt development and I now have to go through the full bloody DA process before I can do any more work on it. So instead of spending the weekend putting the roof on and getting the floor down I spent it doing a submission to council.

I am furious. She's been waiting 18 months for revenge for us calling the rangers about her noisy dogs. I have never wanted to set fire to someone quite so badly. Had I been able to drink heavily over the weekend (couldn't... was doing bloody council paperwork and had to stay sober) I probably would have gone over and taken a dump on the bonnet of her car.

Angry. Very angry.

I now return you to your namby pamby football/soccer discussion.

Im guessing this DA means that it comes with extra fee's also.

Dump away Airgead.

 

[Black Devil Dog]

 

[Not For Horses]

Dump away Airgead.

I'm not sure that's enough. You should invite everyone you know to partake also.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Taking a dump on the bonnet of her car isn't revenge, she would be used to moving a bit of **** if she has dogs, it would be second nature. Plus she would know who the culprit was, you have to use a bit of cunning so you would be the last person she thinks of if something untoward happens.

 

[Airgead]

Im guessing this DA means that it comes with extra fee's also.

Application fees, surveyor's report fees, engineers report fees, inspection fees.... Could add 5k to the cost of the shed unless i can persuade the council to let it through as an exempt development.

Either way its weeks of time where the thing is sitting half finished and I don't have a home for my brewery and my coolroom isn't being built.
:angry:

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Any way you can demonstrate to them that it's going to be a class 10a building?

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Just tell them its an exempt shed and tell you will see them in the administrive appeals tribthem unal & the land an environment.


Just build the ****** and wait till you get a letter from them

As long as the set backs are all good there is sweet f%#k all they can do. As long as you are "only going to use it to store machinary" they cant really do much.

As I found out when I built a 14x6 shed on.my farm. The only thing the council guy said was " you know your not allowed to park your car in there" , pointing to said car in said shed when visiting on a different matter....

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Seriously....1kg bag of Brown onions are $1.10 cheaper than the same brown onions loose...

 

[Airgead]

As long as the set backs are all good there is sweet f%#k all they can do. As long as you are "only going to use it to store machinary" they cant really do much.

Setbacks are an issue... we had an existing shed that had been there since before we bought the place and it was hard up against the fence. The new shed isn't as close but its still closer than the minimum setback. We are arguing that as its a direct replacement of an ecxistign shad that appears on the purchase paperwork for the house 19 years ago and was approved by council when it was built way back when... then its OK.

But all it takes is to get one officious prick in council...

officious... that's another great word. Like mendacious.

 

[manticle]

You should be right then. Officious pricks almost never work for councils and a sensible bureaucrat will surely realise the vexatious nature of the complaint.

 

[Not For Horses]

Setbacks are an issue... we had an existing shed that had been there since before we bought the place and it was hard up against the fence. The new shed isn't as close but its still closer than the minimum setback. We are arguing that as its a direct replacement of an ecxistign shad that appears on the purchase paperwork for the house 19 years ago and was approved by council when it was built way back when... then its OK.

But all it takes is to get one officious prick in council...

officious... that's another great word. Like mendacious.

I had a quick browse through your council's planning scheme and development standards and the NSW state planning scheme.
Seems like such a minor development. I think it would be an easy sell for the exempt development. Having said that, the minor buildings and sheds section on the NSW planning website is 'coming soon'. I can't imagine it would change much for you.
I don't know what it is like in NSW but I'd imagine that you'd be able to use the existing building offsets to justify the new ones.
I also noticed that Hornsby have an environmental development scheme that includes a clause that suggests a building is not exempt if it is within 4m of a tree. They also have a code that defines just what a 'tree' is.
Best of luck with it.

Let me know if you would like me to post a satchel of turd to your neighbour.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Trust the government to have a specific definition for a tree......

 

[bradsbrew]

Don't suppose your neighbours dogs would run away if the gate was left open?

 

[spog]

OK... enough of this namby pamby football stuff. Time for a proper rant. I have mentioned previously how much I hate my insane animal hoarder neighbor and her dogs. My hatred had ratcheted up a few notches.

Those who follow my insane ravings will know that I am building a shed. A majestic shed with space for my brewery. Sheds are in our council area an exempt development. this means you don't need to talk to council about putting one up. Except that my frickin neighbor calls the council and complains about me putting up an illegal granny flat. Now it is a majestic shed but its not that big...you would need to have a pretty small granny. No one in their right mind could mistake my shed, majestic though it is, for anything other than a shed.

The upshot is that since a complaint has been received its no longer an exempt development and I now have to go through the full bloody DA process before I can do any more work on it. So instead of spending the weekend putting the roof on and getting the floor down I spent it doing a submission to council.

I am furious. She's been waiting 18 months for revenge for us calling the rangers about her noisy dogs. I have never wanted to set fire to someone quite so badly. Had I been able to drink heavily over the weekend (couldn't... was doing bloody council paperwork and had to stay sober) I probably would have gone over and taken a dump on the bonnet of her car.

Angry. Very angry.

I now return you to your namby pamby football/soccer discussion.

Gutless malicious *****,people ( like her ) that once taken to task on a matter who then lash out because they are so weak they refuse to take responsibility
Years ago we had a 10 hectare property and the neighbours horse got through the fence onto my land then onto the road,the ***** horse owner had a go at me because their horse could have been injured claiming it was my responsiblity ,even when I told them its your horse so your sole responsiblity to ensure it doesn't get out ,they threatened to sue me ( for what I don't know) anyway the matter was soon resolved when I told them to fcuk off or I would give them something to sue me for.

 

[Mardoo]

Airgead, in the great words category: peripatetic, like your dance with your neighbor. Sounds like it's time to make it a slam dance. Which was peripatetic back in my day and place. Peripatetic...awesome word and surprisingly useful.

I keep wanting to offer advice about settling things with your neighbor, but know you'd never leave a trail on an Internet forum.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I would have issued him with a receipt for adjistment for the horse, a bill for damage to property..then told him to **** off.

Shame it wasnt still on your property. You could have shot it in your padock. How are you to know who's horse it is

 

[spog]

I would have issued him with a receipt for adjistment for the horse, a bill for damage to property..then told him to **** off.
Shame it wasnt still on your property. You could have shot it in your padock. How are you to know who's horse it is

Following on from nuisance dogs we lost a few sheep ( used to keep the grass down) to packs of dogs, the council could only do so much as the dog owners denied their dog was involved.
So a small enclosure with the sheep in it was setup,with lights for night vision and sure enough a few nights later the pack was back different breads, different sizes, all soon dead,all 13 of them. No more problem.

 

[jlm]

Ha. Spog's example reminds me of a run in with one of my neighbors a few years ago. I used to walk my bull terrier (May she rest in peace, mauling Jesus' cats in heaven) past their place twice a day ('cause they lived six doors down, it's suburban Brisbane, kinda hard not to) and I'm a good dog owner and like to exercise my animal. Anyway, they start abusing me daily, because my (deaf) dog is apparently making theirs bark. I cop it on the chin for a while because I have much experience dealing with dumb ***** and don't feel the need to raise my blood pressure acknowledging these dumb *****. One day though, I snapped after dumb fatass mole walks out onto nature strip and yells "that dog needs a bullet". I drag my dog back (all ol Chopperdog cared about at this point was getting home for her post walk pig's ear) and yell in her face " do everyone in the street a favour and put the bullet in your own head you dumb ****!" And walk off. She gives me a spray, telling me she's going to call the council cause I've got a "pit bull". Turns out she does call the council to complain about me walking my registered dog past their house but the mention if a pit bull gets me a visit from a council officer. Luckily he realises my dog is nothing remotely close to a pit bull and tells me he's going to inform this ****** that I'm walking a registered dog on council land (the nature strip) and if she has an issue she needs to take it up with me personally. Which she never does, just the odd bit of abuse. Now, I can be a bit of a vindictive prick, so naturally I start calling council complaining about the noise their dog is making (and that actually led to them walking this thing every now and again, so that dog owes me a favour) and whenever they'd have any sort of get together I'd naturally ring all my mates get them to and along with myself call the fuzz and complain about the noise. Complain to council about them parking cars on the road (they lived on the inside of a bit of a corner) saying they were obstructing the road. Petty **** like that. I moved to the next suburb about six months later but I'd make a point of walking the few km to walk past their house and make their dog bark once a week or so until the old girl got to old for those trips. Thank **** I live in acreage outside sleepy launceston now and rarely have to deal with dumb ***** like that anymore.
So there you have it. My longest post on AHB.

 

[pk.sax]

I had a potential al Qaeda recruit sitting behind me on the plane. The terrorist screamed, cried, kicked, jumped, wailed, played his ninny nanny show full volume all of the three hours in that metal coffin. This on top of a 6.20 flight when I couldn't quite sleep the night before.

I could only wish for anaesthetic.