Der Entwickler von Sydney räumt illegal Hunderte von Bäumen für den Bau von 3 Millionen Dollar Villa. erhält „Slap am Handgelenk“.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/fine-sydney-developer-illegally-cutting-trees-for-luxury-mansion/105628970
Der Entwickler von Sydney räumt illegal Hunderte von Bäumen für den Bau von 3 Millionen Dollar Villa. erhält „Slap am Handgelenk“.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/fine-sydney-developer-illegally-cutting-trees-for-luxury-mansion/105628970
20 Kommentare
If they were serious about stopping this the solution is to confiscate the property.
Nevermind the trees, he should be fined for building something so crass.
In other news being homeless is illegal and additional powers allowing police to ban, move on, search and confiscate items have been introduced, and private surveillance officers (security guards, transit officers and council officers) have moved in to regulate semi-public spaces.
It’s his land. Penalty just seems like the cost of doing business.
Unpopular opinion judging by the other comments but I agree the fine isn’t substantial enough but if this section is enforced then I would personally consider it appropriate “is now required to restore the land to the condition it was in before the unauthorised clearing took place.”
I am hesitant to think it will be ‘like for like’ but I am hopeful that’s the case since the eyes are on him. If that doesn’t happen lodge a round 2 and blow those fines up.
on the one hand $3 mil goes a lot further in oz than seattle, on the other hand that thing look tacky and nouveau riche.
How is that only 3$ million!???
$11 a tree precedent set.
confiscate the land and turn it into a nature preserve
God please move the trees for me so I can have a marvelous view the plebs don’t have and I deserve.
Fuck it, I cleared the trees. Ok sorry God – thanks for your forgiveness.
Unless it’s trees with some historic significance, this is totally normal. And why the fuck a tree felling in australia news worthy on a sub called worldnews???
I’m not sure why this is news.
Generally speaking if you’re allowed to build a house on a property, it’s a basic understanding that you’ll be cutting trees down. Otherwise you can’t build a house there, in which case the land is functionally worthless if it’s within a city.
there is no way that is a $3mil build – it would be the significantly reduced estimate put on the DA
Give him more fines for building that pretentious monstrosity.
Mr. T did this in the 80s, and *to this day* people who were around then still shit-talk him. It’s not just the money…
There was a case like this a few years ago where part of the settlement was building a tall fence to block the illegally cleared view.
Ship that house back to India or somewhere, where it belongs to.
Breaking: Rich person does rich person things. Gets rich person consequences.
The wealthy continue to be pieces of shit.
from the article „***Mr Abara accepted responsibility for carrying out prohibited vegetation clearance, including 16 protected trees, and excavating 6,000 cubic metres of land without approval at his Barden Ridge property.“*** So its illegal to cut down trees on your own property? wtf australia more from the article ***“The charges he faced included carrying out prohibited vegetation clearing and carrying out a development without first obtaining consent.“ The businessman had pre-existing development consent from an application in 2007. Mr Abara bought Barden Ridge in 2019 for $890,000. (Source: Development Application)That granted the landowner permission to subdivide a portion of the property close to the road, to build a residential dwelling and shed on each*** [***lot.It***](http://lot.It) ***also allowed for the removal of just five trees but also stated that „no significant landscaping is to be affected“.*** They basically said you need a permit to literally do anything on the land this developer purchased for 900k. Someone explain to me how thats not insane.