Envy Apartment

Code Enforcement Looks Into Peppertree Living Conditions" class="vi2" /> New information on a local I- team investigation into the problem plagued Peppertree Apartments in Whitehaven. Transcript: Code Enforcement Looks Into Peppertree Living Conditions new information on a local i- team investigation ... into the problem plagued ... peppertree apartments in whitehaven. city code enforcement inspectors ... went door to door at the complex this afternoon ... assessing living conditions . the inspection sweep ... is part of a number of big changes the city made ... after our local -i team exposed ethics concerns surrounding the code enforcement manager in charge of the property. the city shut down that manager's ministry ... which was operating out of peppertree ... and removed him from overseeing today's inspection to avoid any conflicts of interest. here's investigative reporter maria hallas ... who broke the story ... reports from the inspection...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...