Masa Furuya says the tall cabinet on the footpath beside his Sydney St boundary is too close to allow him to maintain the wall, looks ugly and could affect his property’s value.
"This is not absolutely acceptable to me."
He also believes the Alliance, which is delivering the project, can set the cabinet back in the same way a neighbouring box has been.
He’s also upset he wasn’t advised the cabinet was being installed, and only found out late last month when he returned from several months in his native Japan.
Furuya, who’s complained to the Alliance, says this issue follows three years of inconvenience to neighbouring residents and businesses from noise, dust and vibrations.
In correspondence sighted by Mountain Scene, the Alliance’s stakeholder manager tells him the cabinet’s placed "admittedly close" to his wall as it’d otherwise reduce the width of the usable footpath.
It could have been placed on any of the intersection corners, the manager says, but the northeastern corner was chosen as there are fewer services under the ground here.
The position also means the traffic signals will be more visible when operators are carrying out maintenance activities, Furuya’s advised.
In reference to his complaint over lack of consultation, he’s told affected parties along the arterial route were advised early on they could express any concerns to a community liaison group.
