Why no action after nine years?

After reading “The Ruins Of Avondale “ article (Courier, January 30) I would like to correct some reporting errors:
The building stop order was not due to encroachment on my property, but due to an error in the implementation of the building regulations by the then acting town planner.
The plan was passed with the building line two metres from the street boundary as opposed to the correct 7.5 metres as laid down in the building regulation, and this was also objected to by several other neighbours. It is interesting to note that even though the plan was passed against their own regulations, the borough continued to try and force the error through.
After going to High Court, my lawyer eventually had to resort to getting a hearing at the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government’s department of local government and traditional affairs in Pietermaritzburg on March 2, 2006.
The ruling was that the owner was “to demolish a portion of the building which has already been erected”.
Perhaps the borough would like to comment on why this has, after nearly nine years, not been done?
TREVOR ABBOTT
Ballito