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by Vanda Carson
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The millionaire owner of a palatial Brisbane home has won an urgent legal injunction to force his new neighbours to halt building work on their swimming pool and a potentially hazardous retaining wall next door to his home on one of the suburb's best streets.
Steven John Baxter, 48, the founder of digital signage company Mandoe Media, from Paddington, succeeded in obtaining the order against his neighbours who are trying to create a flat backyard on steeply sloping Reading St using massive retaining walls.
Planning and Environment Court Judge William Everson last Wednesday ordered well-known luxury builder Graya Construction (Graya) and homeowners Anthony Steven Preston, 42, and wife Kylie Anne Preston, from Bardon, to stop building their luxurious above-ground swimming pool, filling their steep sloping block with soil and filling retaining walls on their Reading St property for a week until the case returns to court.