Wellington neighbours

 

PHOTO: SUPPLIED Wellington on a good day is very good indeed from the Aitchison’s terrace. (File photo)

The downhill neighbour in a notorious fence case is having one more go at trying to take a wrecking ball to the $72,000 legal bill he’s left with.

David Walmsley spoke for his mother and himself, perhaps one last time, at the High Court in Wellington on Friday.

He told a judge he still had a sense of injustice over the structure he erected with Wellington City Council approval about four years ago on the upper boundary of a family property in the upmarket suburb of Roseneath.

The structure, part fence, part play fort, blocked the broad harbour view from the terrace of his neighbours Peter and Sylvia Aitchison, and their action to have it removed was ultimately successful.

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