Mehrab-Khani has killed an 80-100 year old walnut tree in the inner city which all residents loved and which a Tribunal ordered him to protect during construction. Hobart City Council never enforced a protection zone for 2 years, despite multiple letters from another neighbour and myself, and never fined him for his behaviour.
He has now applied for a new permit to get the tree cut down. Tony and myself won't be defending it anymore because my focus is now in getting Unit 1 next to my property dealt with at a Tribunal.
Having said that, I was gobsmacked last week when Tony Jacobs was cross examining Mehrab-Khani during the Anti Discrimination Tribunal. Tony asked him why there was no 3 metre barrier protection around the tree as ordered by Tribunal and showed him the topmost photo, when Mehrab-Khani answered that is was only supposed to be there during excavation stage! In fact it wasn't there during excavation stage either except during the last few months....but the point was that Mehrab-Khani had no idea what his building approval said or he lied in a court of law.
The building approval clearly said the barrier needed to be up during construction phase, not just excavation.
Shame on Mehrab-Khani for killing this tree, and shame on Hobart City Council for doing absolutely nothing to protect it.
News Flash: I have been told just 5 minutes ago by a neighbour that Mehrab-Khani had verbally told this neighbour some months ago that he "knew how to kill this tree."
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