The building height is excessive. With ongoing construction nearby, additional long-term works will increase noise, dust, and vibration, affecting residents’ rest. Local facilities, roads, and parking are already under pressure, and more traffic will worsen the situation. The commercial areas may bring extra noise, pedestrian flow, and late-hour activity, impacting safety and quality of life.

I strongly oppose to the new proposal due to its lack of consideration to the existing building 1 Danks Street. The developer has failed to consult with the residence to understand the impact 18 storey building will have.
The two biggest areas are failing to protect the exciting buildings privacy and the loss of natural light.
The residential area (level 2) of 1 Danks Street is similar to that of Sydney terraces and not of a typical box shaped apartment block. There is no 'roof', we walk along an open-air pathway to get to our front courtyards, all living spaces are highly exposed, light-dependent living spaces with floor to ceiling windows and we all have private roof terraces.
All of these spaces will be massively overlooked and our privacy gone regardless of the 15-meter set-back. There is also the acoustic noise level this quantity of apartments will have on our building, with that many living spaces facing towards our building.
The other issue is the natural lighting we will lose in all 3 western facing spaces; living room, bedroom and roof terraces, not to mention the impact it will have on the commercial offices on level 1 where the overshadowing will also impact its climate.
The new proposal is far away from what has been on public display for many years now in the council office and it appears the council may have forgotten the previous planning objections of the previous application that was rejected, which was considerable smaller than what is being proposed now.
The application would appear to focus on the fact 1 Danks Street is surrounded by commercial sites whose occupants are far less affected by issues such as overshadowing, privacy loss, and acoustic impacts compared to the Bourke Street end of Danks Street which has a greater number of residential units.
As the occupant of unit 22/1 Danks Street, I have a double aspect roof terrace which will be overlook from two separate apartment blocks which appear to have rooftop swimming pools which I imagine will be popular in summer adding to possible further privacy issues.
The proposal does not appear to recognise this imbalance, and the unique needs of our residential community have not been adequately considered within the development’s design or justification.
This plan requires substantial redesign to; remove direct overlooking, reduce overshadowing, significantly scale back building height, reinstate the principles of the long-standing masterplan and to properly assess and protect the amenity of existing residents.
I am also under the impression Coronation are aiming high with the height and expect a reduction however this needs to be realistically reduced closer to the 7 storey masterplan, and not a tokenistic number to try and appease the neighbours.
Finally, I have included an image of how filthy are windows have become just from the dilapidation and earth works phase. You will see from other images we can not easily reach these windows and we would like it added to the planning that the developer needs to regularly arrange to have our windows, east and west facing cleaned.
I have attached images of the communal area and within unit 22 so you can see how the propsed buildings are going to impact our overall quality of life and impact the space we live within the four walls of our homes. On the western front, we will lose all natural lighting, when we look out of our windows, all we will see are large towers around us.
Every developer is keen to use the Danks Street name, yet non of them want to build within the Danks Street height restriction to be in keeping with the area.