NorthConnex

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To Whom It May Concern:

Re: Proposed M2 integration work as a part of NorthConnex

We are writing in response to your letters dated 17 March 2014 and 27 August 2014 regarding the proposed M2 integration work.

My husband and I are the owners of the property 19 Williams Road, North Rocks.

Our understanding is that you intend to add a continuation of an additional westbound lane for the M1-M2 on the Hills M2 Motorway to the Windsor Road off-ramp and also the relocation of existing operational noise walls along the westbound carriageway.

This is directly behind our property.

We have several serious concerns regarding the proposed M2 integration work as follows:

* The loss of our beautiful bush outlook.
* The loss of the nature and wildlife that live in the bush including the fairy wren birds and water dragons.
* The additional noise due to the loss of trees that have acted as a barrier to the noise of the M2.
* The additional noise due to the widening of the M2 which will bring the M2 closer to our property.
* Additional pollution due to the loss of the tall trees that currently act as a barrier to the M2.
* Additional pollution due to the extra number of cars per day intended to travel on the motorway.
* The effect the additional pollution will have on our young children.
* That the additional vibrations of the roadworks will further affect the foundations of our property.
* The loss of value to our property due to all of the above points.
* When we purchased the house we were informed by the M2 that extension of the M2 behind our property would never happen. We were assured that there was no proposed widening of the M2.

We implore you to please take our views into consideration. We are a young family living in our first home and are extremely distressed at the prospect of such disastrous roadworks will have on our current happy family home and life. Please, please, please don't extend the M2 behind our home.

Yours sincerely,
Allison & Jason Richardson
19 Williams Road
North Rocks NSW 2151

PS. Please note that I will follow up with photos as our photos are in jpeg and I need to convert them to PDF. Please accept the late submission of the photos.

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Ventilation stacks should not be sited in residential areas, or in areas which do not allow for adequate dispersal of pollutants.

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While I believe that Northconnex project represents significant positive progress in infrastructure for our community I have serious issues with the following proposals:
1.That the Southern interchange ventilation stack (and for that matter the Norther interchange ventilation stack) are proposed to be unfiltered. I believe that it is inconceivable, and unconscionable to concentrate the discharge of universally accepted carinogenic emissions from 9km of tunnel over 2 small geographical areas. The stacks must therefore include acceptable filtration.
2. The Southern ventilation stack location. It is currently planned to be constructed on the same site as the control centre which makes no sense from an engineering, economic or emission distribution point of view and should therefore move to a site on the opposite side of the road on currently owned RMS land adjacent to Pennant Hills golf course.
3. The plan to use the local streets of Aiken, Oakes, Eaton and Karloon rds to access the Southern Control Centre site during the construction period of some years is unacceptable on what are already ridiculously congested roads that are gridlocked now for at least a few hours every day. I believe that the additional proposed truck movements will pose logistical problems for the construction company.

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