Moriah College Redevelopment

I support this project for Moriah College because many of the current High School facilities are inefficient and outdated and so need to be replaced. The project will move the entrance to the College to a section of the community that faces the park. This entrance will include an internal drop off as well as internal parking. All of this will reduce the current noise/traffic burden that the neighborhood currently finds challenging and build a school for the future.

I am objecting to the proposal put forth by Moriah College. The traffic congestion and blocking of local streets already being experienced in the area is not tolerable, particularly in the mornings and in the afternoons around school drop off/pick up times. I find it difficult to even find parking in my street as well as to the rear of my property (Rawson Lane) during the hours of 8am-4pm, very clearly being staff, students and parents. By increasing the schools capacity this will become significantly worse. The streets of Queens Park need to be protected and not become traffic havens, this will impact the visual amenity of the area and the community, not to mention the impact from an environmental standpoint particularly with relation to air quality.
I strongly object to the new development and request a separate independent and public traffic survey to be conducted for an independent impact assessment.

Many of the high school facilities are outdated and need to be replaced.The project will move the entrance of the college to the part that faces the park. This entrance will include an area for internal drop off as well as internal parking. All of this will reduce the current noise and traffic that the neighborhood finds challenging

The project will benefit thousands of school children for years to come

I support this project for Moriah College because many of the current High School facilities are inefficient and outdated and so need to be replaced. The project
will move the entrance to the College to a section of the community that faces the park. This entrance will include an internal drop off as well as internal parking.
All of this will reduce the current noise/traffic burden that the neighbourhood currently finds challenging.

This project will enable facilities to be built that will enable our children to be taught in an environment which encourages innovation and excellence. I also feel what the college will implement to improve traffic for Queens Park/ Waverley precinct (as a local resident myself ) is very commendable.

I am a local resident. I have no problem with the redevelopment. Moriah is an important community hub and the proposed traffic improvements will benefit the whole area. Progress is a good thing.

the current school is old and needs new facilities

My wife and I strongly oppose and reject this proposal
We are long term residents ( 30+ years ) of Queens Park abd over this time the school generated car traffic has increased dramatically and created major delays in both the morning and afternoon in the area around Moriah College This congestion creates serious delays and it appears that about 80% of parents drop their children off and pick them up when public transport ( buses and trains) are readily accessible. This expansion will only increase this problem with associated air pollution
Second, the the 3 and 4 story and bulky buildings proposed are not in keeping with the local area.
Third, the College has failed to manage its own Traffic and Parking Plan on a regular basis
Fourth, the School uses armed security guards which is a serious concern and against our Australian culture without publically available justification - and the increase in enrolments will only increase this "need"
The College has already taken over a Government Community Health Centre on the corner of York Road and so further expansion seems to be their objective. At what point given all the problems created by this unbridled expansion will their scale be limited in keeping with community views regarding traffic etc ?
For these reasons we strongly object to this proposal which unfortunately has bypassed the local Council and community

MORIAH COLLEGE REDEVELOPMENT – MAJOR PROJECT 14741
As a resident of Queens Park, I object to this development for the following reasons:
1. The visual amenity of Queens Park and Centennial Park will be adversely impacted by the sheer size of the proposed new buildings. The buildings are imposing and close to the street. The school already looks like a prison and the development will exacerbate this.
2. Traffic congestion is already a major problem particularly between 7:30am and 9:30am and later in the afternoons. There is an almost continuous flow of traffic blocking local streets at peak times generated by student drop-offs and pick-ups. Turning right from York Road into Baronga Avenue is not only congested but dangerous.
3. Students, parents and staff vehicles parking daily in local streets. Alt Street parking is severely congested, and drivers do not obey speed limits, making it dangerous, particularly on a street with so many young children.
4. Moriah College night-time events are frequent, attract large numbers of people and use local streets for parking. This will only worsen for residents if this proposal is approved.
5. Pedestrian safety risks and general road safety risks will escalate as a result of the increased traffic in local streets.
6. Queens Park residents would like Waverley Council to conduct their own independent and public traffic survey so that all stakeholders can better understand the impact.

We completely support this application. This will make the access to the school more private as it does not face residences and the use of foot traffic more common as it is much safer and more accessible. We wish the school the best in this next stage of development.

Key benefits of Moriah’s proposal to upgrade facilities at the Queens Park campus:

Creating updated, contemporary learning spaces and new recreational spaces
• Modern, high quality spaces are needed to suit contemporary teaching and learning methods. Moriah College is currently experiencing a shortfall of appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated. The College proposes to upgrade its school facilities to create contemporary learning spaces that inspire innovation. • A new agile and adaptive study centre will offer a flexible, modern High School library-space that will house a book collection and support innovative learning in a technology-rich environment. • The project will offer more spaces where students can get together, to allow for greater social interaction and enhance collaborative knowledge sharing. • The proposed design includes the construction of a new building, which will maximise spatial resources and leverage more opportunities for students to enjoy green, open spaces.

Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours
Moriah College has actively designed a proposal to improve traffic congestion within the Queens Park area including:

• A new internal ‘ring road’, which will ensure all High School vehicle drop off and pick up will improve traffic flow, and keep more cars on campus and off local roads • A Green Travel Plan, which seeks to create a modal shift, encouraging greater use of public transport, walking, cycling, and car-pooling, rather than private vehicle use. This is expected to reduce private vehicle use by 10% and will include more than 100 additional bicycle spaces, showers, change rooms and lockers. • Staggered arrival and departure times for different cohorts of students will help reduce traffic congestion during the peak traffic periods • The redirection of vehicle access away from residents on Queens Park Road by relocating the main entry and administration of Moriah College to York Road and Baronga Avenue, further reducing potential impact for near neighbours • Most importantly, as part of the proposal, Moriah College will be upgrading the Queens Park / York Road intersection and the York Road / Baronga Avenue intersection further providing real and sustainable solutions to the traffic issues facing the Queens Park precinct as a whole. Moriah has been working collaboratively with Waverley Council to ensure these intersection upgrades will occur prior to development of the new facilities.
Sustainable growth delivered in a staged approach • The proposed upgrades enable Moriah College to grow sustainably. The school currently has capacity for 1,680 students and is seeking an increase of 17% across Early Learning through to Year 12 that will be delivered in a staged approach over the next 15 years. This equates to a 1% increase per annum.
Moriah is an important community hub
• Moriah College is a place of belonging for our whole community and we welcome many community members to participate in events and activities at the College. A variety of major communal organisations utilise Moriah’s facilities for their events and will be inspired to bring their programs to our new, flexible spaces.

This project will reduce the traffic in the morning and of an afternoon. At present the congestion around the site during my commute causes significant delays. Having parking on site for staff also will allow for traffic around the site to ease.

COMMENTS:
I support this project for Moriah College because many of the current High School facilities are inefficient and outdated and so need to be replaced. The project will move the entrance to the College to a section of the community that faces the park. This entrance will include an internal drop off as well as internal parking. All of this will reduce the current noise/traffic burden that the neighbourhood currently finds challenging.

Key benefits of Moriah’s proposal to upgrade facilities at the Queens Park campus
Creating updated, contemporary learning spaces and new recreational spaces
• Modern, high quality spaces are needed to suit contemporary teaching and learning methods. Moriah College is currently experiencing a shortfall of appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated. The College proposes to upgrade its school facilities to create contemporary learning spaces that inspire innovation.
• A new agile and adaptive study centre will offer a flexible, modern High School library-space that will house a book collection and support innovative learning in a technology-rich environment.
• The project will offer more spaces where students can get together, to allow for greater social interaction and enhance collaborative knowledge sharing.
• The proposed design includes the construction of a new building, which will maximise spatial resources and leverage more opportunities for students to enjoy green, open spaces.
Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours
Moriah College has actively designed a proposal to improve traffic congestion within the Queens Park area including:
• A new internal ‘ring road’, which will ensure all High School vehicle drop off and pick up will improve traffic flow, and keep more cars on campus and off local roads
• A Green Travel Plan, which seeks to create a modal shift, encouraging greater use of public transport, walking, cycling, and car-pooling, rather than private vehicle use. This is expected to reduce private vehicle use by 10% and will include more than 100 additional bicycle spaces, showers, change rooms and lockers.
• Staggered arrival and departure times for different cohorts of students will help reduce traffic congestion during the peak traffic periods
• The redirection of vehicle access away from residents on Queens Park Road by relocating the main entry and administration of Moriah College to York Road and Baronga Avenue, further reducing potential impact for near neighbours
• Most importantly, as part of the proposal, Moriah College will be upgrading the Queens Park / York Road intersection and the York Road / Baronga Avenue intersection further providing real and sustainable solutions to the traffic issues facing the Queens Park precinct as a whole. Moriah has been working collaboratively with Waverley Council to ensure these intersection upgrades will occur prior to development of the new facilities.
Sustainable growth delivered in a staged approach
• The proposed upgrades enable Moriah College to grow sustainably. The school currently has capacity for 1,680 students and is seeking an increase of 17% across Early Learning through to Year 12 that will be delivered in a staged approach over the next 15 years. This equates to a 1% increase per annum.
Moriah is an important community hub
• Moriah College is a place of belonging for our whole community and we welcome many community members to participate in events and activities at the College. A variety of major communal organisations utilise Moriah’s facilities for their events and will be inspired to bring their programs to our new, flexible spaces.

As an owner/occupier of a residence in Queens Park, I strongly object to the Moriah College Redevelopment for the following reasons:
- The traffic congestion on weekday mornings is already a major problem. Our street and adjoining roads are heavily congested each morning for a few hours with cars either dropping off their children or returning home after the drop off. This is repeated in the afternoons.
- We have lived in Queens Park for less than two years, however, I have witnessed one serious accident on the intersection of Denison St and Birrell St and heard the noise of many near misses. The drivers in the queue of cars waiting to exit Denison St and cross Birrell St after having dropped off their students often become impatient.This creates increased traffic noise with horns blasting and screeching tyres and as I said causes many near accidents.
- It is difficult to prove that the lack of parking in the evening in our street is a result of evening events at Moriah College but it could explain why on weeknights it is difficult to park yet on weekends, when locals are at home, we don't have the same problem.
- Many students from Moriah College use Centennial Park as an all day parking lot which doesn't have a serious impact on me because I walk to the park but it would reduce the number of parking spots available for park visitors.
- Risks to pedestrian safety is also an issue with the heavy traffic on York St in particular, and other parallel roads, making it difficult to cross safely at the peak times.
- Pollution is also an issue. I have noticed a significant difference in the quantity of particles on my car and the front of this house compared to our previous house in Paddington. This has to indicate poor air quality as well and this can only get worse if the traffic increases as a result of the expansion to the College.
- I would like to see Waverley Council to conduct their own independent traffic survey in February and March 2020 especially between the hours of 7.30am -9.30am and 3pm to 5pm on weekdays.
- I think the 'Near Neighbour Letter Catchment' should have been wider so that residents who commute past the College are allowed to comment on this proposal because it will certainly impact them as well. For example residents of Randwick.
I think it would make far more sense if Moriah College found a new site if they need to increase the numbers of students attending. If they had another campus in the Easter Suburbs it might actually reduce the traffic in this area.
Yours sincerely
Shayne Higson

MORIAH COLLEGE REDEVELOPMENT – MAJOR PROJECT 14741
I strongly object to this development as a resident of Queens Park for the following reasons:
1. Traffic congestion is already a major problem particularly between 7:30am and 9:30am and later in the afternoons. There is an almost continuous flow of traffic blocking local streets at peak times generated by student drop-offs and pick-ups.
2. Moriah College has failed to manage its own Transport, Traffic & Parking Plan (TTPP) for a long time, evidenced by the number of students, parents and staff vehicles parking daily in local streets contrary to its own TTPP.
3. Moriah College night-time events are frequent, attract large numbers of people and use local streets for parking. This will only worsen for residents if this proposal is approved.
4. Pedestrian safety risks and general road safety risks will escalate as a result of the increased traffic in local streets.
5. Noise and air pollution in our local streets will increase due to more traffic and people, and as a result, noise will increase and air quality will reduce.
6. The streets of Queens Park are becoming ‘traffic sewers’ which is impacting friendly interaction between neighbours, resulting in a decreased sense of well-being, community, connectedness and security.
7. The visual amenity of Queens Park and Centennial Park will be adversely impacted by the sheer size of the proposed new buildings.
8. 3 weeks, especially in the busy lead up to end of year for local residents, is grossly inadequate for informed responses to the proposal, which contains nearly 1600 pages of complicated text and diagrams – more time is needed.
9. The ripple-on effect of the increase in traffic, congestion and pollution will extend to many residents who have not been notified of the proposal and who deserve the right to be informed and to comment.
10. The ‘Near Neighbour Letter Catchment’ was inadequate and needs to be significantly expanded so that all impacted neighbours are aware of Moriah’s intentions.
11. Queens Park residents would like Waverley Council to conduct their own independent and public traffic survey so that all stakeholders can better understand the impact.
12. Further to the above standard issues:, I just received a flyer from Moriah (unsigned) from the College President suggesting there is misinformation out there on this project and trying to correct the record. It suggests there has been a lot of community consultation - total rubbish. It also suggests they will get more kids and teachers to ride to school... seriously? The truth is that they don't communicate with us apart from a letterbox drop irregularly that says there is a number of nights when there will be a function on.
13. We put up with aggressive parents blocking our narrow street and refusing to budge when we are trying to go about our business. They sit in their cars, blow their horns and expect us to back up to get out of their way. It would be funny if it wasn't so aggressive.
14. The students park all throughout the neighborhood and even if you tell them they are not supposed to, they sit in their cars watching you, waiting and hoping you'll go away. In the end I do as it's a pointless waste of my time. The school has never policed this.
15. My neighbor who has been here since it became a school said that they originally promised all the same things they are now promising with this development - including access by the community to the pool. All three of our kids were learning to swim when we first moved here in 2010 and we taught them at Hakoah Club in Bondi, at a private swimming school in Rose Bay and at Bronte Beach as nippers. There was no option up the road from us.
16. It is an incredibly closed school that does not try and integrate with the community. Armed security is intimidating and reinforces the view that the school is not for the neighborhood.

We completely support this application. This will make the access to the school more private it as it does not face residences and the use of foot traffic more common as it is much safer and more accessible. We wish the school the best in the next stage of development.

I support the redevelopment. Why should the students not get all the opportunities they can

I object to the project because of
1. Its visual intrusion into Queens park and ugliness
2. The area already suffers from traffic overload during pick up and drop off and this project will make the situation worse.
3. Moriah students park their cars in the back streets, especially at the rear of my house and frequently block access to and out of my garage.