Woollahra council threatens to fine residents over plants outside their homes Well-heeled residents threatened with fines for pot plants READ MORE: Killjoy council kiboshes young entrepreneur's dreams By Daily Mail Australia Reporter Published: 12:11, 27 May 2024 | Updated: 12:32, 27 May 2024 e-mail 1 View comments A council has threatened residents in a ritzy Sydney suburb with hefty fines if they do not remove pot plants outside their homes. Pen pushers at Woollahra Council have cracked down on small businesses and well-heeled residents living in Underwood Street in Paddington, inner-city Sydney, after a complaint was made about plants and furniture on the upmarket street. Nicola Harvey-Hall, who has lived in her terrace home for 15 years, was handed a $635 fine for the crime of having pot plants outside her door.
'I really did treat it as a joke,' Nicola Harvey-Hall told news.com.au .
'I've never had a fine in my life. I don't drive. The plants were beautiful.
Everybody loved them.' But now she is being threatened with sheriffs being sent round to seize her worldly possessions to sell or deduct the money owed from her bank account. Pen pushers at Woollahra Council have cracked down on small businesses and well-heeled residents living in Underwood Street in Paddington, inner-city Sydney, after a complaint was made about plants and furniture on the upmarket street (pictured: the Tuckerbox cafe which was fined around $1,500 for having painted boxes for customers to sit on) Me.
