Inner Sydney High School

Could you please provide details/diagrams, including location/s and proposed set-up of parking in regard to;
1) staff parking
2) drop-off & pick-up points for parents of the 1,200 students
3) visitor parking, particularly when the school is holding functions

Will current parking restrictions in the Redfern area be further restricted as a result of the huge numbers of people & cars expected to come into the area when it opens eg: 2 hrs to 1 hr, 1hr to 30 mins, etc?

Will the school employ traffic controllers to cater for students crossing busy Cleveland St or Elizabeth St before & after school?

Will the school cater for a fair mix of students from every background, or will it be swamped by Chinese students like our Universities or other schools in certain suburbs?

Will City of Sydney Rangers and/or Police patrol Prince Alfred Park & Central Railway Station to prevent is becoming a 'hang-out' in large numbers of students pre/post school hours?

I understand and agree with the need for an inner city school and have no objection to the development of the site. I do however, have serious concerns about the height of the development which is not in keeping with any building around it. I also have concerns for the overshadowing of residential properties on both Cleveland st and Chalmers st.

The proposed 13 storey tower is a gross over development of a busy and sensitive site.

The site currently houses a small school that does not have any adverse impact on traffic, or the amenity of residents. The proposed site seeks to bring a large influx of students and by proxy their parents, to what is already a very busy vehicular area. The added mass will cause no end of traffic disruption and may well make it difficult to ensure the safety of pedestrian and students without causing undue interruption to traffic flow.

The addition of a large body of students, parents and teachers will cause loss of amenity for resident. Prince Alfred Park, the pool and the tennis courts for which the residents sufferd and paid for over a long period may well now serve as an extension to the schools grounds and play areas.

The height of the tower is totally out of keeping with the area and shows total lack of regard to the are and the sensitivities. It will be the proverbial pimple on a pumpkin and will cause loss of privacy, overshadowing. The proposed volume of users will require exit and entrances to occur via the park side causing more congestion and loss of amenity for residents .

This is a gross over development and proposed use and introduces a scale of architecture that is very incongruous to the corner of a very important public park. The application should be rejected

I have no problem demolishing the 1969 section of the building. However I am concerned about the construction of a 13 story tower block as this is far in excess of the size of tower blocks for the area and am concerned about the aesthetic impact of such a block, particularly next to a high significance heritage building.

Secondly, I am also concerned about the traffic effects on Cleveland / Chalmers Streets given these are already highly congested.

Thirdly what will be impact to the Prince Alfred Park? It is a fabulous park enjoyed by local people and having an extra 1,200 students spill out onto the park for recreation and other purposes sounds like it will significantly reduce the pleasure and enjoyment of this space.

I live only one block away from the site so I am very in tune with these impacts. I would prefer a more modest plan fitting with the character of the area, traffic issues and use of public park space; if this cannot be achieved then I object to the plan in its current form.

I am a student at the University of Technology, Sydney studying the Bachelor of Architecture. The assessment is based on this site and it would be great if we could see the drawings of the buildings. Thank you for your time and I anticipate to hear from you shortly.

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I object to the name change of Cleveland St High School
You might have thought of something more imaginative like South Sydney High School - the school is in Sydney and in the South.
Changing the present name gets rid of the School's 100 year + heritage and history, an important aspect of a school's identity.
Can you imagine the outcry if you changed the name of Fort St High School to Inner Sydney High School.
I concur with the other listed objections concerning the development.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I object to the name "Sydney Inner High School" for the new development of the Cleveland Street school. It's far from appropriate, Cleveland Street school being historically one of Sydney's oldest government non-denominational public schools.

Cleveland Street School, which operated until 1977 as a high school, was founded in 1857, just six years after Fort Street High School.

Imagine if Fort Street was renamed `Inner West' High. It would be a travesty!

Within two kilometres there's also Sydney Boys High, Sydney Girls High and Sydney Grammar. There are already enough `Sydney' high's and the name Sydney Inner High sounds just as generic.

Let's keep our history! After all, how incredible that Cleveland Street school has kept educating continuously since 1857!

Yours faithfully,
Helen Kennedy

As a resident of City of Sydney, I have also 'paid for' the upgrade of Alfred Park and yet as a parent I have no issue with the redevelopment of the site, even though my own children have missed the cut off to attend this school.

It will serve the community well to reinstate the school's prior use. It was a public school, serving the local community for the vast majority of its long life and catered to far greater numbers than the current fluctuating 150-300.

Density and the building heights that come with it, are inevitable. The community suggested other sites with a larger foot print but the Departments of Planning and Education, chose this site. Unless the school caters for 1800 students, the enterprise will be of short lived benefit. Compromise is appropriate here and therefore I accept and support the design as a whole.

The only thing I object to, is the theft of the name of the school. It is absurd for the relocated Intensive English school to take the name Cleveland Street with it. The name Cleveland High School belongs to this site and should be retained.

As a local resident at 6 Belvoir St (corner of Chalmers St), next to the development, I have concerns about the negative impacts to the area, with the development of a high-rise High School, on the site of the Cleveland Street Intensive English School. I have been living here since 2001.

I feel that local residents would be very much directly affected by the proposed development. I have concerns with the tall building shadow and the loss of privacy for local residents, living next to a high-rise building with a large number of students. This would increase the noise level associated with much more students, compare with the current school.

A tall building can reflect light and heat to adjacent residential buildings. There would be much more additional impact to local traffic with students drop off/pickup, creating even more bottleneck and also impact to parking.

The development would impact on the open space and would dominate Prince Alfred public park and pool, with a tall building and much larger number of students in the area.

In my opinion, a local school around Green Square area would be better, as there are much more residential developments in the area.

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