Mod 2 - Design Changes

I object to a additional level added; nothing on King st or Dangar st is this high. High should remain as agreed originally

Car park on King st and Dangar st is limited for residence at present. Reduction of car spaces at montefiore will impact the community once again. I object to reduction of car spots.

Visitors, staff and loved ones should be encouraged to be using parking on the home.

I object to additional level
and reducing car spaces.

We strongly object to your proposal to build an additional level comprising plant room. Current Randwick council regulations only allow for buildings in our area up to 3 levels, so this proposal would greatly exceed this and would add to the visual bulk and scale of the overall building when viewed from Dangar Street and will alter the total neighbourhood and set a dangerous precedent for other developments in our area.

We also object to the reduction of car spaces and the removal of the temporary car park, as this would greatly increase the traffic and parking issues in our street, which are already busy
enough with general traffic, as well as staff, volunteers, and visitors parking from the current Montefiore facility.

We firmly object to these modification proposals as they will damage the local neighbourhood, and represent ongoing development creep which is not in the interest of local residents.

We refer to requests which we received correspondence via letter from this department on 17 February 2017 and 23 February.

We object to the modification in respect to the additional level to comprise plant room for the following reasons:
1) The resultant height of this additional level is above the heights approved by the PAC after taking significant due consideration and concerns from residents regarding the heights of stage 1 residential aged care facility.
2) This represents ongoing development creep by the proponent which is not in the interest of residents for the department to support and encourage.
3) The proposed increase in height will have a further greater negative impact on our view loss and negative value on our property, all for the benefit of housing plant and equipment.As noted in our December 2015 objections, our clients have significant and unobstructed views from their unit, across the west to the Blue Mountains. These views also incorporate the skyline of the City and Anzac Bridge.
4) We maintain our assertions as outlined by our lawyer previously that the tenacity principal applies in respect of views.
5) The addition of the plant level is also has a more significant impact across more of our view. The advertised plans show that the intention is to fill in the void between the approved plant equipment areas. This has the effect of completely blocking our views to the blue mountains instead of partial obstructions. Something like if a neighbour erects a high fence over existing approvals that blocks a view. I strongly object to this unnecessary addition as it would now be a full obstruction to our already impacted view and amenity. This is especially poignant given that the approved plans already exceeds the local and state guidelines for this residential enclave.

We also object to changes impacting building massing, as the mass and scale of this building is significant, and any resulting increase in massing and scale is significant especially when viewed from above and not at street level.

We hope that you do not support the amendments relating to height and massing. We have no comments on the other changes with the exception of the loss of onsite parking spaces, which has a further impact on residents street parking concerns already raised regarding the previous submissions.

Our property is uphill of the proposed development. We currently look directly into the current top floor of the Montefiore Home from our second storey. We strongly disagree with the proposed heights of the new structure, as it will tower over us and all the properties in our area by 2-3 storeys. This is not in keeping with the residential nature of our area, and goes above and beyond any type of building height that any ordinary resident of the area would be approved to build to.

These specific changes - the creation of an additional floor of plant rooms on the top floor are particularly offensive. We had hoped at least that the top floor would have some architectural design elements and possibly landscaping to minimise it's impact. The light pollution is also a significant issue, and there MUST be some type of plan to mitigate the further impacts of this on residents.

My other concern is the addition of even more luxury housing units with even fewer car spaces. It is a total fallacy to state that the residents of independent living units will not drive - they probably will...that's what independent means! In addition, there is already insufficient parking for visitors. Please refer to the attached photo of the front driveway of The Montefiore property on a Wednesday night, chock full of cars. On this night there was no parking for 8 blocks around the nursing home - this is a weekly occurrence at the moment.