Sonia Kruger’s Mosman neighbours up in arms over TV star’s renovation plans

EXCLUSIVE: TV presenter Sonia Kruger and her husband are bunkering down for a battle with their posh neighbours over plans to slap $1m worth of renovations to their already stunning $6.5m mansion.

TV presenter Sonia Kruger and her news producer husband Craig McPherson are bunkering down for a battle with their posh neighbours over plans to slap $1 million worth of renovations to their already stunning $6.5 million mansion.

The glamour duo, who purchased the five-bedroom, three-level Mosman home overlooking Balmoral Beach in late 2015, have lodged a development application with Mosman Council to make a string of upgrades, including the addition of an indoor elevator and a new swimming pool.

Sonia Kruger and her husband Craig McPherson want to renovate their luxury home.

Kruger’s neighbours in Mosman say the street will suffer.

The couple want to make the terrace suitable for entertaining.

They have also applied to extend an already vast outdoor entertaining area on their rooftop.

But their neighbours have objected to the renovations on the grounds that extensions will obstruct their own beach views.

Local resident Beryl Ward said the expansion of a rooftop entertaining area will ultimately be a noise obstruction once the summer party season kicks off.

In her complaint to council, Mrs Ward said the planned extensions came as a “shock and deep concern”, adding it was “depriving me of my privacy and causing noise across not only my property but (surrounding neighbours) when (McPherson and Kruger) were entertaining outdoors”.

Sonia Kruger with her daughter Maggie outside their Mosman home. Picture: John Fotiadis

Patricia Coxson has pleaded with council to ­skittle the enlargement on the basis that it “replaces a balcony which can provide access and views but which is not intended for outside entertaining thereby limiting the noise factor”.

“The proposed balcony clearly is intended for ­entertaining,” she wrote.

Kruger and McPherson’s other neighbours Steve and Anna Kominakis also ­argued that they would be subjected to yet another ­redevelopment of the property on their swanky street.

The couple’s home has amazing views.

In writing their objection to council the Kominakis’s said they had lived through “four major developments in 40 years” and that ­redevelopment would require “continuous policing from the proposed building contractor”.

When contacted, a pragmatic McPherson, who was appointed Seven’s news boss in 2015, acknowledged his neighbours’ objections but said he had personally assured them he would be prepared to make any ­adjustments when — and if — construction began.

“There’s nothing at all unreasonable in the objections, but we submitted several short- and long-term plans in the one development application which just made economical sense,” Mr McPherson said.

“We may put a pool in in a year or so and beyond that may look at making more modifications within the next two or three years and even then, it may be longer.

“But in the event that we go ahead, we will certainly take into account any objections and make adjustments accordingly.”

Kruger and McPherson want to make some modifications to their home.

Kruger, 51, and McPherson, 45, who welcomed their first child Maggie in 2015, are one of the most successful media pairings in Australia, raking in a combined annual income of just under $2 million.

They snapped up the Mosman residence, upgrading from a $3.75 million Warrawee home in December 2015.