The privately-owned, vacant house in Maxwell Avenue, Glenroi, was set alight seven months ago, and has steadily been vandalised. 

The Glenroi Community Group is calling on Orange City Council to make the site safe as the owners haven’t been able to do it.

Member and local resident Michelle Einsaar said the site, near Glenroi Heights Public School, should be cleared.

“Ideally, it’s just temptation waiting for someone to get hurt now,” she said.

“The best result would be to get rid of it altogether.”

She said young people had been on the site damaging the walls and throwing rocks at the fibro cement panels.

“Kids just think it’s fun to go in and bash it with a stick and it will fall down. [There’s] also a fire risk from the long grass,” she said.

“It’s there, it’s open, it’s accessible, you never know [the risks] down the track, asbestos lung problems, cuts, tetanus from rusty nails.”

Fellow GCG member Neil Jones said Cr Jason Hamling had raised the issue with council last month.

Mr Jones called for council to put a fence around the site ahead of possibly buying and demolishing the house.

He said the owners of the house were the victims of vandalism.

Cr Stephen Nugent said the issue needed to be sorted out “as soon as possible. If it was anywhere else in Orange would it still be here seven months later?” he said.

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Council spokesman Nick Redmond said council issued a demolition order in September.

“It’s a very serious matter to be dealing with someone’s private property. Council staff will to continue to work with the owner,” he said.