AN ILLEGALLY built eternity pool at the coastal holiday home of billionaire Solomon Lew and his daughter Jacqueline Lew has been given a last-minute reprieve from a council wrecking ball.

Mornington Peninsula Shire Council had ordered the pool to be demolished by 5pm tomorrow, but on Friday it granted a four-week extension after the Lews provided council officers with engineering and design information.

Solomon Lew's eternity pool. Credit:Meredith O'Shea

The pool, which has sweeping views of Moondah Beach in Mount Eliza, was built without planning permits and on Crown land adjoining the property owned by the Lew's private company Shuttlehall Pty Ltd.

The Lews' lawyers, Schetzer Brott and Appel, are believed to have blamed the builder of the pool, Krongold Constructions, over the failure to obtain planning permits.