THE developer of a Thornlands estate was issued with an enforcement notice following severe flooding of a neighbouring property during heavy rain last month.
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Redland City Council issued the notice on January 19, requiring the developers Villa World Thornlands to comply with conditions relating to stormwater management within four days.
A council spokesman said officers were satisfied with the action taken to fix the issues when they inspected the site on Friday.
Property owner Dale Rogers said work had been done on the drainage.
“We won’t know if it’s working until it rains,” she said.
Villa World development manager Andrew Ashwood said he believed the enforcement notice had been resolved.
The enforcement notice was issued four days after water and debris gushed onto Ms Rogers’ property for the third time.
Ms Rogers said work had been done after the first two incidents and she had been told the problem would not recur.
However, the impact on January 15 was the worst she had seen.
Ms Rogers said she had sought help from Cr Paul Golle.
Cr Golle told Redland City Bulletin he had previously been contacted by nearby residents concerned about the removal of trees on the property being developed.
He said he had worked hard to bring all parties together to try to find a solution to the issue for the residents.
“The issuing of the breach notice follows this and other work done by council officers since last year,” he said.
“I will continue to work to ensure this development doesn’t negatively impact surrounding residents.”
The enforcement notice stated that compliance did not preclude council from issuing a penalty infringement notice or taking other legal action for the original development offence committed.
The council spokesman said no decisions had been made about potential further action against the developers.
The enforcement notice states an inspection revealed that “during the recent rainfall events a considerable amount of stormwater runoff escaped the site...and entered into adjoining land, inundating it with water and causing nuisance”.
On January 18, Mr Ashwood told Redland City Bulletin that all the sediment and erosion control measures taken on site were best practice and in accordance with the council approved sediment and erosion control plan.
He said on January 27, the rainfall event on January 15 was more intense than any erosion and sediment control measures were designed to cater for.
“We take all reasonable and industry standard measures to ensure that erosion is controlled, but these controls cannot deal with all storm events,” he said.
