2011: My daughter and husband bought into a Strata complex: no pets allowed. no remodelling allowed. $400k for a box on concrete in Sydney City East. Guess what. Almost every apartment had a dog / cats. She ended up getting aircon installed and there wasn't a thing Strata management could do...
I'm thinking the neighbour has called out the City for not upholding it's zoning laws and that's why they are now forced to come the heavy; why it's no longer in their hands? Someone has gone higher, maybe lobbied a local pollie with a parrot on his shoulder.
Just a thought. Are you sure it's this neighbour that complained? I'm just thinking someone called the city on your neighbour to make them get rid of their chickens. Maybe it's that same neighbour who complained about your roosters. The city isn'y allowed to state which neighbour complained, so...
My dog killed a few this summer, and when I opened the shed I discovered a new bag of Blood and Bone had been opened by the rats! The shed is in the chicken yard but dogs and chickens don't have free access so I threw basic supermarket ratsack baits in the shed, in the compost bin and under the...