Moriah College Redevelopment

I think it is a wonderful project which will enhance learning for students in the 21st centuary.

Fantastic long overdue initiative to upgrade and modernise the learning facility and make it contemporary. Improving the traffic flow and parking is crucial to the safety of the children, good working of the school and neighbour relations. Suggest the application includes additional on site parking for parents (particularly during events) and students. Perhaps underground or a shuttle bus service?

This is an incredibly important campus to the Jewish community which with any school or facility, requires updating to ensure those both within the school continue to receive as good an education as is possible to contribute to the broader community when they leave.

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is currently experiencing a shortfall of appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated.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.

Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours

• 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.

• 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.

• The proposed upgrades will also enable Moriah College to grow sustainably.

I support the project

The submission includes not only the benefits to the students but also takes into account both traffic flow and impacts on the surrounding neighborhood. The submission is well thought out taking into account both current and future needs of all concerned.

Traffic congestion morning and afternoons at drop off and pick up times
Moriah college's students, parents and staff vehicles parked contrary to its own TTPP
The streets of Queens Park now severely impacted by the college and will only get worse

This project is important in the delivery of quality education to thousands of people in the community.

See Attached Document Prepared by Moriah College which I wholeheartedly support

I am of the opinion that the existing Moriah School student population is at tipping point and should not be increased on the current campus. Other like schools in the Eastern Suburbs reasonably have a minimum of 2 campuses , namely a senior and junior school and often have preparatory school services at a further site. The current site is not capable of taking further students and the proposed building development/redevelopment.
A wrong decision was made many years ago by previous Government to let a school be developed on land reasonably forming a public park. This wrong decision whilst it cannot be changed should not be reinforced by the Government of today.
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.
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.
Moriah College night time events are frequent, attract significant numbers of people and use local streets as a parking lot. This will only get worse for residents if this proposal goes ahead.
Pedestrian safety risks and general road safety risks will escalate as a result of the increased traffic in local streets.
Pollution in our local streets will increase due to more traffic and air quality will reduce.
The streets of Queens Park are becoming "traffic Sewers" which is impacting friendly interaction between neighbours, resulting in a decreased sense of well being, connectedness and security.
The visual amenity of Queens Park will be adversely impacted by the bulk of the proposed buildings.
3 weeks is grossly inadequate for informed responses to the proposal, which contains nearly 1,600 pages of complicate text and diagrams, - more time is needed.
A key role and goal of government is to ensure that their decisions create legacy and not longterm negative impact on the local area and its constituents. Our current NSW Government should object to the Moriah College Redevelopment submission and require the school community to develop a second campus in another area other then Queens Park.

I support this project for a number of reasons.

Firstly, the plan will enable Morah to update its current learning spaces into contemporary learning spaces with new recreational spaces. The current school with a capacity of 1,680 students lacks appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated. This plan will created much needed modern, high quality spaces awhich suit contemporary teaching and learning methods. The project will also offer more spaces where students can get together, to allow for greater social interaction and enhance collaborative knowledge sharing.

The plan will also allow Moriah to grow sustainably and increase capacity by 17% over the next 15 years. As the primary jewish education facility in NSW, this is key to its sustainability.

Moriah is also a vital community hub which enables learning, collaboration and participation through events and activities at the College. Moriah’s new facilities will promote these events through its new flexible spaces.

Finally, the plan aims to improve traffic flow for the surrounding neighbours. With the new proposed ring road, Green Travel Plan, redirection of vehicle access away from residents on Queens Park Road by relocating the main entry and the propsed upgrades to the Queens Park / York Road intersection and the York Road / Baronga Avenue intersection, Moriah will improve traffic congestion within the Queens Park area.

Apart from the clear visual and aesthetic improvement to the area ,
the improved educational facilities for the Moriah school community ,
there is a clear benefit to traffic that flows into out of and through a very congested area of the eastern suburbs
This I beleive will improve the ammenity of the immediate neighbours , and the adjaacent neighbours by allowing the free flow of traffic, because the school drop off and pick up will be onsite rather than on street, reducing pollution in the area as well (less idling cars)

There are so few options available within the Sydney Jewish community for modern learning spaces that promote learning and growth in a conteporary environment. Moriah is the only learning organisation (ELC, primary and high schools) in Sydney which provides Jewish children, wishing to benefit from a Jewish and heritage education, as well as a culturally rich environment, with a learning experience and education of a high quality standard, as well as equip future generations of Australians with the best tools available to join and contribute positively to our immediate and greater community and society. In order to be able to achieve all the wonderful things they wish to achieve, their facilities need to be able to keep up with ongoing demand. 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 and help raise many future genrations of well-rounded, highly educated, free-thinking and ever-creating wonderful human being contributing to their surroundings.
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 College is a vital place of belonging for the entire community and many community (and non-community) members participate in events and activities at the College throughout the year in a large, varying amount of ways. 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.
I sincerely hope this project goes ahead so that others in the community can also be the beneficiaries of the many wonderful things Moriah College does for the local community as my family have been.

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Moriah is an important communty hub and the proposal has been desgined to improve the traffic flow for everyone including the neighbours

I received the letter late November as it was dated 18 Nov and arrived several days later.
I note there are 33 documents and nearly 1600 pages to read and review. I find this a little unfair as I am not sure how i am meant to read and review in the time frame provided. I am not a town planner so I need to get help form others when reviewing.

I feel that more time should be provided for the neighbourhood it would impact.

thank up

Here is a further objection now I have had time to read some of the documents.

1. Traffic Congestion:
- Traffic congestion is already a major problem particularly in the mornings as parents drop of kids and people are heading to work. There is an almost continuous flow of traffic blocking local streets at peak times generated by student drop-offs and pick-ups.
- 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. The streets surrounding have students parking even when it is prohibited
- The streets of Queens Park have cars running along then including many laneways in the mornings and afternoons. This is driven by frustrated drivers taking short cuts to get around traffic. It is dangerous to the people and kids who live in the area.

Visual Amenity
- The visual amenity of Queens Park will be adversely impacted by the bulk of the proposed buildings.
- I was shocked when I reviewed the pictures and images of the 4 story boiling and its impact on the visual area.from the parks it look hideous and will mast the area. I struggle to understand why they need to overbuild and over populate in such a beautiful area as the parklands. Our forefathers would not have allowed it. Progress at any cost appears to now be the them here and elsewhere.

Traffic count
- I can't seem to find where a proper and true traffic count of current vehicles - both parents dropping ids off, teachers and then workers travelling to work has been conducted.
- I want at least a traffic count to be conducted in the busy period ( not school holidays) so that planning and councils and local residents can review the true impact of this increase.

Much of the school is tired and run down and needs redevelopment to keep up with other educational institutions in the area.
The traffic congestion is often an issue and the new ring road will allow better flow of traffic into and out of the area.
The establishment of more green spaces will be of benefit to the students allowing them to get out into the fresh air in a safe and secure environment.

My name is Howard Tanner and I have been an architect for numerous schools including three major private high schools in the City of Sydney and the Municipality of Woollahra. My property is on the edge of Queens Park, and the standard access route to my house is directly past Moriah College.
Any school that has 1,680 students would, in my experience, be viewed as being at maximum capacity.
To my knowledge, during the past decade applications for new buildings and facilities at SCEGGS Darlinghurst and the Scots College, Bellevue Hill have been approved only on the basis that there be only a SMALL increase in student numbers or NO increase in student numbers.
It seems entirely sensible that this policy apply to this school. Like the others, an increase in student numbers and a related increase in traffic volumes is unacceptable. Traffic is already very heavy in the vicinity of such schools at the beginning and end of each school day.
I have no objection to Moriah College improving its facilities; an increase in student numbers appears completely unreasonable as damaging to the amenity of the neighbourhood and out of step with the policies applied to similar institutions in Eastern Sydney.

Moriah College is a hub for the whole community. Upgrading facilities will benefit students for generations to come as well as be of major benefit to the whole community. Moriah's committment to ensuring that traffic concerns are met is commendable and will assist local residents. In addition, the school's committment to upgrading existing roads and infrastructure around the College, will benefit the entire area. The school cannot spread beyond the 'Island' on which it is already located. Ensuring that the College maximises the use of the land it's on, to provide exceptional, sustainable buildings and infrastructure is essential.

As a resident of Queens Park I strongly object to the expansion of Moriah College on the following grounds:
1. The roads around Moriah College are not large enough to support the volume of traffic generated by the school on top of normal peak hour traffic loads. Traffic on Baronga Ave, Queens Park Road and York Road in the vicinity of Moriah College within the hours of 8.00am till 9.00am is near grid lock and this is repeated to a lesser extent in the afternoon peak times.
2. Traffic and associated parking in local streets generated by night time events at Moriah College create a major parking problem for local residents trying to access their homes. Moriah College letter box drop the local area advising residents of the night time events but this does not stop the parking issue.
3. The surrounds of Moriah College are particularly unkempt and generate rubbish. Increasing the capacity of the school will increase the rubbish and litter that flows out of Moriah College and accumulates in the local streets.
4. The visual amenity of Queens Park and Centennial Park will be significantly impacted by increased development and increased building height in Moriah College.
5. The increase in development and student and staff numbers and lack of green space within the proposed development will impact on the atmosphere of the area placing more strain on Queens Park and Centennial Park.
6. The character of quiet atmosphere of Queens Park is severely affected by the appearance of armed guards and staff patrolling the school surrounds from early in the morning till late in the afternoon. An increase in school size will result in more security being required and more changes to the gentle character of the area.
7. Queens Park is a quiet residential area. Noise generated from within the school grounds after school hours in the early evening on week days (martial arts training? or sports training of some sort) is very disturbing to some of our younger and older residents.
Thank you