Neighbours Clash Over Nines Set Chaos

Construction on The Block's 2026 season is nearing its end - and local residents couldn't be happier to wave goodbye to the chaos. 

The mammoth renovation project has sparked anger among locals and truck drivers in Mount Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

With work wrapping up next Friday, neighbours spoke to the Daily Mail about the relentless noise and traffic the Channel Nine series has brought to their street.

Locals living near the sprawling site on Old Mornington Road say traffic has descended into a daily gridlock.

Heavy vehicles have been backed up for hundreds of metres while tradies scramble to finish the five luxury homes before auction day.

Truck drivers servicing the build claim that they are being forced to wait hours just to gain access to the site.

Some of them have described the congestion as 'absolute chaos' on the already-busy thoroughfare.

Residents say the constant stream of concrete trucks, delivery vehicles and construction machinery has turned the normally quiet area into a noisy, congested nightmare.

They have complained of 'relentless' noise from early morning until late into the evening.

'It's relentless,' one frustrated local, who asked not to be named, told the Daily Mail. 

'The traffic is bad enough normally, but now you've got trucks lined up everywhere, engines idling, tradies coming and going all day. People are over it.' 

'It's been full-on. The noise, the traffic, it never stops,' another local said.

The production headache comes at a critical time for Nine amid mounting fears the five multimillion-dollar homes may fail to meet their reserves at auction.

It's a scenario that contestants face every year.

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