Tallawong Station Precinct South Mod 1 (SSD 9063)

The EPA has provided advice on these matters in previous correspondence. The EPA has no comments in relation to this matter and no further need to be involved in the assessment of this project.

I have lived in the suburb adjacent to this proposal for the past ten years and have watched as the Ponds & area further west developed as a pleasant suburban low density residential area. I bought my home in the Ponds for just this reason. I have watched with trepidation the explosion of high density housing springing up over the past 3 years or so to the extent that many facets of life are now threatened by huge increases in the number of people wanting to use the existing facilities. Traffic is reaching congestion at many points around the area such as Schofields Rd & Windsor Rd, Schofieldes R & Tallawong Rd, Windsor Rd at many intersections from Merrivale Rd to Annagrove Rd. Parking at the Rouse Hill Town Centre is now problematic with the current level of existing residents who shop there. With the huge influx of future residents into this project as well as the many other planned & almost completed high density buildings the Town Centre will be overcrowded at most times. Other smaller local shopping centres will also be swamped by overcrowding. Doctors, dentists, pathology labs, medical imaging centres will also be overloaded leading to a poorer quality of life for myself as well as the people moving into these residential units. In the very local area the following are some, not all, high density projects completed, under construction or planned:- Cudgegong Rd. 2 completed 8 story residential blocks. Another 3 planned.
Grassland St. 1 completed 6 story block & at least 1 more plnned.
Torelli St. 2 completed 8 story blocks & unknown number of planned blocks.
Cnr Cudgegong Rd & Rouse Rd huge complex under construction of unknown height but currently 4 stories & another complex as big next door
along Rouse Rd.
Fronting Schofields Rd from the existing Blacktown City Council quarry west to Cudgegong Rd there are planned projects that will total at least 9
major residential blocks of at least 4 stories in height.
Fronting Windsor Rd from Schofields Rd to Rouse Rd will be at least 6 high density blocks as well.
To allow & approve this Tallawong Station Precinct to add an enormous number of people & their vehicles to this area will just overload all aspects of life in this area. The Tallawong Metro station car park is today filled at 06:30 am with overflow parking reaching into the residential streets of the Ponds as well as along both Cudgegong & Tallwong Roads which will only increase. Traffic is right now an issue & a huge increase of traffic will cause congestion. Schools in the area are at maximum capacity & an influx of 1100 dwellings will increase the number of children to be educated locally which means schools would have to be expanded to cope but there is no mention of this. The parkland described for this project is laughable. As described in the submission it will be bounded by the retail section of the precint, at least one third is shown as paved & any flat green playing space appears to be no more than about half a football field. With 1100 dwellings this would mean a population of 2,000 to 2,500 people in this extremely tight area of 200 metres by 200 metres with one tiny park. To my knowledge there are no other public parks proposed by council or the NSW Government within a radius of 2 kilometres from this precint. By approving this project as it stands you are condemning the residents, both existing and future occupants of this precint, to a congested, dismal life with no play areas for their children, overcrowded medical, retail & travel facilities.
My quality of life will be lowered due to the overcrowding of all the services & facilities mentioned above as well as visually. In my front yard I have a view of the roof of the existing Metro station which is not intrusive but if these buildings are built as planned I will be subject to an overbearing wall of unit blocks which at 8 stories will be the biggest things to be seen.
This project is far too big when it is taken in consideration of the huge numbers of large residential projects in the surrounding area. It needs to be given more green space, less numbers of dwellings and all buildings need to be no more than 4 stories.

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TfNSW Response

I strongly object to the project as I am being the resident of The Ponds and this project will have greater negative impact on the current landscape of the suburb.
Having around 1000 units just opposite to a residential suburb is not a good development. Please reject this development and build parking in the same place. Landcomm built a beautiful masterplanned suburb "The Ponds"and now they themselves building a high density development opposite to the "The PONDS" and spoilng the resedntail landscape of The Ponds.

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Please see attached our submission letter to SSD-9063-Mod-1.

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