Season 20 of Channel Nine’s hit reality series The Block has officially wrapped filming on Phillip Island until auction time later this year.
And while contestants have flown home, photos posted to social media show the building site is still very much under construction, with one angry neighbour telling Yahoo Lifestyle the area looks like ‘bomb site’.
An insider told the publication construction workers have been booked for the nine weeks between filming and the show’s premiere to ensure properties are ready to be put on the market.
‘(The Block) Phillip Island needs a lot of work before the five new houses can go to auction,’ a source said.
‘Filming with the contestants finished two weeks ago and yet builders are still working away and completing common areas.’
‘All of the space between the houses is weeks away from being finished and that is going to take some time to sort out. This often happens. but this year needs quite a lot of finessing,’ they added.
The series will premiere in August after the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Season 20 of Channel Nine’s hit reality series The Block has officially wrapped filming on Phillip Island until auction time later this year, but according to a neighbour the building site still looks like a ‘bomb site’
This is not the first time the building site has caused chaos.
Last month, Daily Mail Australia watched enormous big rigs carting palm trees into the construction site, which is positioned in a former Cowes resort along a narrow street ironically named Justice Road.
Construction workers descended on the site in February, sparking what for some residents seems like an endless procession of traffic along a road also used by busloads of tourists en route to the nightly penguin parade.
One resident told Daily Mail Australia the traffic issues were mainly caused by large trucks carting The Block’s building supplies being forced to queue along the street.
An insider told the publication construction workers have been booked for the nine weeks between filming and the show’s premiere to ensure properties are ready to be put on the market
They can be lined up for up to three hours, locals said, because there was only one entrance in and out of the property where the homes were being constructed.
The trucks often idle on the road for hours on end with their engines spewing fumes into the air, residents claimed.
‘It’s not ideal, but what can you do?’ one female neighbour said, who wished to remain anonymous.
‘We can’t wait to see the back of them.’
Daily Mail Australia spoke to a swag of neighbours living around the controversial construction site who have suffered over the past three months.
Some claimed construction workers initially butchered their lawns by driving their trucks up and over the kerb, but they said that problem eased during their three-month ordeal.
‘(The Block) Phillip Island needs a lot of work before the five new houses can go to auction,’ a source said. ‘Filming with the contestants finished two weeks ago and yet builders are still working away and completing common areas’
But the local construction traffic continued to annoy them, most said, particularly with the way trucks enter and leave the site.
‘I’ve almost had two head-on crashes because the traffic controllers are not doing their job properly,’ another resident said.
The elderly local was spotted staring at the entrance to The Block as trucks entered and departed the site.
‘I don’t want to cause trouble, but I don’t want to have an accident either,’ he said.
Meanwhile, producers of the series have already set up billboards advertising the jaw-dropping renovations months ahead of the final auction.
This is not the first time the building site has caused chaos. Last month, Daily Mail Australia watched enormous big rigs carting palm trees into the construction site, which is positioned in a former Cowes resort along a narrow street ironically named Justice Road
The Block’s host Scott Cam films at Phillip Island last week
The Block host Shelley Craft at the construction site at Phillip Island
One shows off House 2, a two-storey pad boasting an ultra modern design with a soaring pitched roof.
It also has a sculptured front garden with ‘tropical’ features including a set of huge palm trees.
A billboard advertising House 3, meanwhile, offers a very similar design to House 2, and also features a lavish garden, and timber finishings.
Trucks seen lining Justice Road into The Block last month
Other first look images have emerged of the massive building site, which originally hosted nine homes, a BBQ pavilion, and a children’s playground.
One photo shows the layout in which the new homes are part of a compound with access to a pool and a tennis court and bordered by a street on one side and a row of trees on the other. The Block’s site is also neighbour to parkland.
All the new renovations appear to be built as two-storey homes, on large blocks and featuring solar panels.
A Channel Nine-owned company purchased the site, the Island Cove Villas for a whopping $9.5million for this year’s season of The Block.
