POLICE were forced to intervene in the mandatory clean up of a house in Windred Street after responding to reports that the home’s owner Sophia Kjoller was disturbing the peace.
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When police arrived at the house to investigate the claims it’s alleged Ms Kjoller assaulted officers and resisted arrest.
It’s believed Ms Kjoller was unhappy that Orange City Council and independent contractors were complying with the NSW Land and Environment Court’s latest decision to tidy up the front and back yard of her house.
Cleaners spent an estimated six or seven hours cleaning the yards which were littered with boxes, books and papers.
Ms Kjoller told the Central Western Daily she had complied with the council’s previous request to tidy the backyard although admitted workers may have taken “a few things away from the front [yard]”.
“I had all of the plants in order out the back,” she said.
“There was no rubbish or boxes in the backyard, I’ve been running a nursery from here so it was all lined up, I don’t know why they needed to take bags of soil.”
This is the third time the property has been the subject of a hearing in the NSW Land and Environment Court in the last 10 years.
Ms Kjoller will be asked to foot this latest $5000 clean-up bill, although it is understood she is yet to pay the costs incurred last time the council organised a clean-up.
Orange City Council communications and public relations manager Nick Redmond said he felt for Ms Kjoller’s neighbours.
“It’s a very-time consuming thing and I understand the neighbours’ frustration over the time this has taken,” she said.
“The only way anything can get done is through the court systems.
“This has been done for the benefit the neighbours.”
Ms Kjoller will appear in Orange Local Court on October 19.
