Hi. I’m objecting to the Redan street super site. The main reasons are its bulk - Redan street has no other apartment buildings and this building will not sit well in its surroundings. It is also close to 36 and 38 Redan street, which are heritage listed. The building is overdeveloped and has excessive height. How can a 10 story apartment block sit well around houses?
The building will also require deep excavation and could damage surrounding housing.
Traffic concerns are an issue too. The affordable housing component would need to be accessed from Redan Lane. This is a 40m wide road - not appropriate for the extra traffic - garbage, cars etc.
The affordable housing component (which the developer is using to bypass local council input and go to 10 stories) has a seperate entry to the luxury balmoral slopes view apartments (which let’s be realistic are not affordable to anyone but downsizers). This creates a 2 tier block which goes against the ethos of building more affordable housing.
I am not against developers building apartments and Mosman has to have its quota, but this development is not in the appropriate spot and the developer is blatantly using the planning laws to make a profit building luxury apartments. Spit junction should be the location in Mosman for these buildings.
Once these buildings are gone, they can never be returned and the character of an area cannot be put back. To have no input from the local council is just arrogance on the developer.

The proposed building on Redan Street is totally out of character with the street and local area. Its proportions are so massive it will be visible from not only the local neighbourhood but the harbour itself. It will shadow surrounding houses and contribute to the already existing traffic and parking chaos. It will involve the destruction of several historic federation houses. Building it will contribute to the eroding character of a beautiful community suburb close to the harbour that is enjoyed by many from all over Sydney and visited by tourists from around the world. Future generations will think how irresponsible planners were to allow the construction.
The suggestion that it is part of a plan to allow low cost housing is so ridiculous it is laughable. It is all about building expensive luxury accomodation. There will be a few lower cost rental units based on Mosman prices but they will still be too costly for lower income workers and will be available only for 15 years.
Any high rise building should be taking place along the Military Road/ Spit Road ridge. There are several vacant shops and properties with little architectural value in this strip. Properties here would still have an outlook and access to public transport would be easier. When there is a better alternative for low cost housing why not take it?
Please give careful consideration to these arguments.

This development is out of proportion to the other buildings near by. It would permanently disfigure the streets leading to Balmoral beach and increase traffic on already overloaded roads.

The scale of such a development will create further congestion to our already crazily congested roads. As a resident of Mosman for nearly 40 years, the traffic is getting so bad that it is taking half an hour to get from one side of Mosman to the other. I am wondering what additional road infrastructure is being put in place to accommodate these extra dwellings that are proposed in Mosman? Has a planning guideline been established to make extra roads? Also, the State Government initiative is called “affordable housing” and I am in a quandary as to how affordable housing can be built on such a premier site on Balmoral slopes in particular. So these apartments I’m assuming, will therefore sell under $2 million to make them affordable??? It is not only the street scape that will be disfigured, but also for the many tourists who arrive by cruise liners into our spectacular harbour, will see a very different visual when arriving on our shores. Some 8 to 10 storey building will certainly deface the skyline. If need be, there are so many other parts of Mosman where “affordable” housing can be built without defacing the Balmoral slopes and knocking down beautiful old homes.

The size of this development on the Balmoral slopes is totally inappropriate. Adjacent buildings are 2 to 3 floors high at the most yet this is 12 storeys. It is also inappropriate in its design among Federation houses.
Buildings of this size should be restricted to the main roads of Military and Spit Roads not among the sloping terrain and federation houses.
The main Military and Spit Roads are in need of urban renewal and should be the place for such developments.
The position of this development in Redan Street destroys the natural topography of Mosman. WIth better planning and concentration of large developments on the Military-Spit Road ridge then better preservation of natural topography can be maintained.
The traffic assessment is not available for viewing . From Redan Street traffic drainage is difficult to the main stream of Military Road which is always congested.
There is inadequate parking allowance for the final building let alone for the process of construction.
The provision of low cost housing for essential workers is inadequate. The valuation and affordability of the rent will be outside the capability of most essential workers. There needs to be more affordable housing in all these developments with a much longer period rental control than 15 years. The principle of expanding affordable housing is totally lost in these enormous luxury penthouses and units.
Again buildings of this size should remain on the main roads of Military and Spit with greater affordable housing.
Sydney is a beautiful city surrounding a majestic harbour. Once it is disfigured by haphazard enormous developments with no true planning controls, its beauty will be lost forever.

I am completely opposing this development. I have been a resident of Mosman and surrounds for the last 15 years. This development would mark the beginning of the systematic destruction of the beautiful heritage suburb that mosman is.
The street and that part of Mosman are definitely NOT fit to have a 10-12 storey building.
Developing Mosman under the disguise of creating ‘more affordable housing’ is a nice sentiment, but simply not true, as the developer is not even outlining how affordable it will be. It’s a short-sighted approach, that will change one of the most original heritage suburbs in Australia forever. So that everybody can pile on top of each other, with traffic and parking being even more horrendously affected, let alone the weak public transport situation that is already at capacity! It’s criminal to think that this is bypassing local councils (not just in Mosman). Thisust be opposed and rejected! Thanks

### Submission Objecting to Proposed Redan Street Development (Mosman)

**To:** NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
Objection to State Significant Development (SSD) classification
I object to the proposed Redan Street development being classified and assessed as State Significant Development.

1. Misclassification as State Significant Development
This is not a project of genuine state significance. It is a local residential development with primarily local impacts. The use of the SSD pathway appears to be a means to bypass appropriate local scrutiny rather than a justified classification.

2. Circumvention of Local Planning Controls
The SSD process overrides Mosman’s established planning framework, including LEP and development controls that define appropriate scale and density. This undermines the integrity of the planning system.

3. Incompatibility with Local Character
A 10-storey development is clearly inconsistent with Mosman’s low-rise, village-scale character. The proposal is materially out of scale with its surroundings and would permanently alter the built environment.

4. Lack of Proportional Public Benefit
There is no demonstrated public benefit commensurate with the proposed scale or its SSD classification. Increased density alone does not justify state-level intervention.

This proposal should not be assessed as State Significant Development. It should be returned to the appropriate local planning framework for proper evaluation.

I strongly object to this over scale development. I do not agree this will support an affordable housing issue. The size of the project is completely inconsistent with the area and well in excess of current development heights and guidelines. This will be a complete visual eyesore to the area and will set precedents for similar over scale and oversized developments in the mosman and Balmoral area. There are numerous developments already underway or approved in Mosman that ARE NOT 10 storeys - they are 4/5 story and can be generally integrated within existing streetscapes. Why does the Govt think that 10 story apartment blocks can be simply dropped into residential streets that are away from a village hub, with a one lane main road being the primary entry and exit point without rat running small local surrounding streets that are often gridlocked. There are NO comparable developments and allowing this for the sake of a small number of apparently affordable units is simply the developers taking the NSW govt for a ride! . It is a nonsense to think this will solve a housing problem. The entire lower north shore suffers from poor public transport options - it has bus only- and no road infrastructure has ever been solved for the Spit road/military rd congestion. The entire area is also a thoroughfare for northern beaches traffic - including its only public transport option being a bus. Ministers should attempt to catch a bus in peak times or try and drive in or around gridlocked main and local streets. Adding more and excessively high density in residential streets will make this worse and as mentioned, once this development goes ahead there will many reasons why other similar over scale developments will be inappropriately justified. This and similar future developments will completely change this suburb and the surrounding areas. This is development by stealth with excessive powers being used to override council, common sense and legitimate community views.

This project is creating infrastructure grossly out of character of the area which is currently filled with modest homes that respect the concept of view sharing.
Construction of such repulsive large blocks of apartments will forever be a stain on the Mosman environment. These types of developments are ruining the very reason people want to live in Mosman, the character, the peaceful village-like atmosphere…

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