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Well, today, after waiting for a month after their scheduled (re-)inspection, the local council building inspector came back to confirm that the four things he'd specified as making our pool perimeter/fence non-compliant with state law had been rectified (we've new state laws, and I think the local council is just making sure compliance is achieved under existing laws before advising locals of the five-year period they have to comply with the new ones).
We'd fixed the problems within a couple of days. It cost us one standard, pine, fence palings and a few screws. He was here today, signing off, for all of a couple of minutes.
The neighbours...they're spending at least several hundred dollars (more perhaps?) making alterations and paying for compliance. It's still ongoing. Although they did actually have quite a few issues, and as far as I know had not got their pool issued with a compliance notice when first built, I think part of the moral of the story is: Don't be an arsehat to visiting government inspectors just doing their job. (*)
Cheers,
Marc
(* The inspector was actually always a really nice bloke. The neighbour just tends to be unnecessarily adversarial, which may have provoked pedantry)
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