File Attached. Objection to Project Corrimal Coke Works-Stage -2A-Built Form
Application Number SSD-83789711

Please find attached a submission from NSW Ports on SSD-83789711 – 27 Railway Street, Corrimal.

This updated proposal to raise the height of buildings and subsequently house many hundreds more people will have a disastrous effect upon the traffic in Railway St. Currently the proposed site will have one road in and out merging on to Railway St at the intersection with Harbinger St. According to the planning proposal and susequent traffic management study undertaken years ago, this was deemed to have little effect on traffic on Railway St. Railway St is a main thouroughfare, particularly in the peak morning period and is already a bottleneck, with traffic queued from the Northern Distributor lights right back to the railway crossing every morning. If the previous devpt application included buildings to 3 storeys, what is the resultant impact on raising this to 6 storeys. Double the traffic. All traffic from this proposed development will empty onto Railway St at the one planned intersection. When this was discussed in the earlier planning phase a local recommendation was made to add a road southbound on to the neighbouring Northern Distibutor. This was canned as this road is a state managed road. This is a state managed increase in corresponding traffic due to the raised heights of the planned buildings. Surely the common sense approach to alleviate at least some of the development traffic exiting makes sense?
Railway St will not cope with an increase as suggested by this proposal. State, Council and the developer need to sit down and come up with a solution that doesn't make the suburb a bottleneck to traffic. There should be a number of separate entry and exit roads for the number of people proposed to reside in this devleopment. To have just one road is ludicrous. Particularly for emergency traffic trying to negotiate Railway St (police, ambulance etc).
The distinct lack of parking for the proposed increase in population due to this proposal also needs to be taken into account. Most residences already have 2 or more cars but the planning is for much less than this. Where are the surplus going to park? There is no space on surrounding streets. An increase in numbers of this size needs serious deliberation.
As a local resident of 40 years, I am devastated by the lack of common sense in this proposal.

I support this development as it provides much needed homes that are well located.

Please refer to the attached documents.