Who would expect this sort of alleged Dishonest/corrupt behaviour to go down behind closed doors at their local Council, who are the 'Relevant Authority' who is supposed to care about community and construction safety? Even going to the extent of removing Bushfire Safety requirements in Construction in a High Risk Bushfire Region and still failing to deal with the issue now that it has been brought out into the open?
The Council should be screaming out about it!! ....It seems they know very well that they are to blame and sadly, seem to be used to getting away with such alleged Dishonesty/Corruption. I never knew such dirty dealings went down. Why would anyone expect the 'Relevent Authority', as in the local Council, to do such a thing after they had been through the lengthy and expensive process with an Architect to get a proper Development Authorisation done for a safe home construction?
The Council staff would know that no Development can occur without the proper Development Authorisation so they should not have been dealing in falsified Documents, - and then claiming they have an 'amended Development Authorisation' and never producing it, - should they? The Council also should not have been removing Bushfire Construction requirements as the Council Planning Department know it is a Bushfire zone.......
The falsified plans were given to the Council by a private Building Surveying company who also acts as 'Consultants to Local Government' and one of their Directors has sat in the position of Chairman of the Council's Building Fire Safety Committee for many years- the Council's Building Inspector is also involved in the whole sordid mess and also long term of the Council's Building Fire Safety Committee. So that's your answer to where the falsified documents came from.
This obviously should never have happened as to make such changes (even if they were ever allowed or legal or wanted, which they weren't) would have required a new Application for Development, then Building Consent, then a new Development Authorisation. None of these exist - just the falsified Engineering documents were applied to the Footings and sub structure - via some sort of back door deal, - and you would know that then negates insurance. I'm sure the Council and their Building Surveyor mates know that too. The Council claim to have an 'amended Development Authorisation' - from their Building Surveying friends - which would not have been permitted by Law and has never been produced. It seems they are just hoping that everyone is dumb enough (or possibly corrupt enough) to accept their alleged falsehoods......
Obviously the Council staff then have worked with the builder and passed checks that should never have passed. The Council did not deal with either the Applicant (the Architect) or the property owner when they substituted the falsified Engineering plans which are so bad that anyone who looked at them would just laugh at how bad they are - so one must ask why did the Council do this, and why have so many of their staff been involved or are failing to deal with the sordid mess now??
Why did the Council then pass checks that should never have passed? Why are they refusing to investigate? Why is the Planning and Development Manager refusing to communicate , refusing to meet and says he will only communicate through a Lawyer? Are you getting the picture now? Why would Adelaide's 'most prominent' Building Surveying company do this? Why does no one hold them accountable (yet)? ....Something really stinks here - surely you can see that!!
It's a dirty game. As soon as I identified that something was wrong I spoke out - and have been trying to get help ever since. Now it is obvious that the Development Industry and what has gone on here shows that there are dirty deals, possible negligence, possible corruption, possible Deception and possible incompetence, amongst other things...... The Council need to be held to account , then if they don't want to wear it themselves they could of course try to sue their mates that they worked with. FYI The original Engineering company who allegedly described what has been done as illegal and worse....did the roof check and never commented on the substituted materials for the posts...or any issues with their sub structure - it was me that noticed something was not right and I spoke out and was then told there was an 'amendment' - which as previously stated was taken in by the Council Planning Department and called a 'minor' amendment which of course it wasn't and anyone who looked at the horrendous falsified documents could see that.
What I have learnt is that everyone is the industry knows these things go down and it's like a secret society as they all back each other. Only the innocent public don't know how sordid it is. Time for a clean out of Councils and the Development Industry.