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'They're trying to make a ridiculously oversized thing!' Elyse Knowles and Josh Barker 'plans for $1million Melbourne mansion are opposed by angry neighbours'

By Ekin Karasin For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 07:45 BST, 25 May 2019 | Updated: 07:46 BST, 25 May 2019

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Elyse Knowles and Josh Barker's plans for their $1million South Melbourne mansion have reportedly been opposed by their neighbours. 

The Block 2017 winners submitted plans in March for the partial demolition of the pad - which they bought last year - and the addition of a basement, rooftop terrace and garden.

But their neighbours have allegedly filed 18 objections to the couple's ideas, with one resident angrily claiming they're trying to make a 'ridiculously oversized' home in a 'working-class' area. 

Oh dear: Elyse Knowles and Josh Barker's plans for their $1million South Melbourne mansion have reportedly been opposed by their neighbours

Oh dear: Elyse Knowles and Josh Barker's plans for their $1million South Melbourne mansion have reportedly been opposed by their neighbours

An anonymous neighbour told The Herald Sun's Page 13: 'This is our home, but they just want to develop and leave us with the deluge.'

'These are modest homes in what was traditionally a modest working-class area, with working-class cottages.'

They added: 'Now they are trying to make it into some ridiculously oversized thing. Who

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