For many years, water is running from under Maitland Road directly into our properties. Over time the problem has become worse, spreading to neighbouring properties as well as water now vertically coming out of concrete slabs, structural columns and more. The NSW government together with the Newcastle Council are treating this as “seepage” and have informed us that it does not warrant any action by them. Internally, we have had a wall collapse, subsidence damage is throughout the building, Maitland Road has had subsidence/resurfacing, multiple sink holes in the curb at the front of the building ...
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We have fallen into a rabbit hole of endless false promises and hopes in dealing with various government departments with regards to abandoned mines, now called, Legacy Mines. Legacy mines are old mine workings that no owner can be found, and they then become the liability of the government. Then, its soley at the discretion of the NSW minister whether they fix any problems. For us, its a facade, they can never fix anything because there is no budget to fix these old legacy mines – in 2019 (according to the NSW government website) they were managing 645 legacy mines, ...
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Welcome to our new website, Mayfield Mines. This website has been created out of desperation, out of many years trying to work with various government departments, the chance of solving the mine issues without legal action is zero. Through MANY documents, photos, videos, freedom of information, and much more, I believe I can show an overall picture of Mayfield and related suburbs of systematic damage to government and private assets caused by a network of abandoned mines. I will be looking to expose government departments for their negligence, and at times I will allege wilful negligence, where these departments have ...
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