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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sage Swinton

Council says it's 'not in public interest' to act on unauthorised wall

A Newcastle woman who has been in a long-running battle to have a wall removed after it was built on her property without authorisation says she has been blindsided after the council decided to essentially revoke its own order to fix the situation.

Judy Tynan has spent four years and about $100,000 fighting to remove the wall, which was erected, without approval, by a previous owner/builder working on a neighbouring development at The Hill in 2019.

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