YARRA Ranges Council and the Yarra Glen Tennis Club have already spent thousands of dollars restoring a heritage clubhouse, but there is no electricity or water connected.
There are also two asphalt tennis courts that are sinking; and vegetation upgrades along the eastern, western and southern side of six of the courts.
The most frequently used playing surfaces are clay court numbers two, three and four – sitting north of the unfinished heritage clubhouse – and south of the neighbouring wire fence.
Efforts this summer to remove dangerous foliage overgrowing the three clay courts began, sputtered, resumed and is now a complete mess on the residential ‘other side of the fence’.
Between two wire separation fences, about one metre apart, five drought-stricken prickly trees are dead or dying.
The contractor has appeared four times on-site and performed cutting work twice.
He has lopped and chopped timber out of the way of sportspeople, leaving heavily encumbered branches growing north through the wire fence onto the next door property.
The contractor has cut up lots of timber but has not removed it, leaving a big mess scattered around on the neighbour’s ground.
I registered a Yarra Ranges Shire complaint on 26 February, 2015.
Yarra Glen Tennis Club and Yarra Ranges Council need to expedite completion of this job.
A new, all-timber high fence with an additional green cloth light screen is needed to stop the light spillage and verbal noise annoying neighbours.
The professional coach supports this remedy: when?
Noel Buchanan,
Yarra Glen.
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