A HOMEOWNER has twice been forced to tell WestConnex workers, who mistakenly turned up to prepare his house for demolition, that it was not actually listed for bulldozing.

In a massive communications stuff up, motorway contractors switched off the electricity and tore down telephone and internet cables at the St Peters’ home that is semi-owned by Richard Moras.

When he confronted the workers on December 5, they told the gobsmacked Mr Moras they were getting his house, and the house next door, ready for the wrecking ball.

But both houses in Brown St, which are close to the construction zone for road-widening work linked to the WestConnex St Peters Interchange, are not listed for demolition.

In an astonishing twist, and despite Mr Moras receiving an official apology from WestConnex for the December 5 incident, demolition workers turned up again on January 5.

This time they began erecting a 2m high security fence around Mr Moras’ house, while he was away at work, telling neighbours it would be stripped out and knocked down.

Neighbour Tamara Regan had to alert the bewildered workers that people were still living in the houses and they were not slated for demolition.

media_camera Richard Maras twice had to complain to WestConnex officials that his house is not slated for demolition after workers turned off power and phone/internet lines, and put security fence around his house. Picture: Craig Wilson

In a video shot by Ms Regan, the workers seem confused about which houses were to be fenced.

Now Mr Moras is terrified another communication breakdown between the Sydney Motorway Corporation and its contractors could lead to his home being destroyed.

“I was working on the computer and the power and the Wi-Fi went off,” Mr Moras, a tour manager, said.

“I went outside and there was cabling all over my front garden and workmen standing at my gate.

“One of them said “we are cutting off the power and the communication”.

“When I asked when it was going to be put back on he said it wasn’t because the house is being demolished.”

media_camera Demolition contractors had to spraypaint a sign on the road in Brown St, St Peters, to warn others where the demolition zone ends for houses to be bulldozed.

A confused Mr Moras rang WestConnex. “They told me there had been a mistake.

“I’m worried that I will be at home one day and a bulldozer will really come through my front gate.

“I wanted assurances that this wouldn’t happen again and they said it wouldn’t happen again.

“It shows there is a systemic failure here.”

After the January 5 fence incident, WestConnex contractors sprayed a makeshift “limit of works” boundary marker in the asphalt on Brown St to alert demolition workers about which houses to pull down.

WestConnex Action Group spokeswoman Pauline Lockie said what happened to Mr Moras was consistent with what she had been hearing from residents from across the WestConnex route.

“Something like identifying the right houses to demolish should be the very easiest parts of WestConnex had to do,” she said.

“So how are we supposed to trust that they can deliver the rest of the tollway, the much more complex and dangerous parts.”

Residents said workers had also incorrectly removed asbestos from houses being demolished

A SMC spokesman confirmed that Mr Moras’ property “had at no time” been identified for demolition.

“In December last year, overhead services to the property were inadvertently disconnected while clearing work for nearby properties was under way.”

media_camera Residents of St Peters have concerns with the removal of asbestos material from homes about to be demolished.

The spokesman said the removal of all asbestos-containing material is being done safely and in line with strict guidelines.