As a resident of Roseville I'm gravely concerned about traffic in the area and the ability to exit, particularly in the event of bush fire. The new development has a modest amount of parking underneath compared with the number of apartments, which naturally converts to more motor vehicles and often multiple vehicles per apartment, which the current development plan doesn't cater for. The assumption that most residents will utilise public transport does not seem to match the reality of life in Sydney. This will only result in greater congestion on our local roads and the risk of gridlock for current and future residents where there is a need to exit the area quickly, which presents property and person risk. This risk will only be exacerbated when this development concludes with the other developments in area. The local area doesn't have a lot off street parking which will result in new residents needing to take further limited parking on local streets which will limit the amenity of the local area. Should the developer reduce the number of floors in keeping with the original TOD for Roseville, this might go some way to reduce this load. I'd be grateful if the developer and NSW Government could consider this objection. I do appreciate the need to tackle the housing crisis, but this needs to be undertaken in a sensible/considered way v overwhelming the local area with traffic.

This proposed project is well beyond the intent of the TOD. This small pocket of Roseville with one exit to the south, cannot accommodate this scale of project that will not only relate to this one submission if approved but there are potentially a further 5-10 projects of a similar scale that will gridlock this area if approved in the format of this submission.
The increased height and floor space ratio reeks of developers taking advantage of this community. The increased dwelling numbers is not about providing increased housing, but providing increased profits to developers, which we should not support. There was never an intent to offer this ratio of building to land, so why would you approve it?
The reduced car spaces is a joke. The current developments in this area all at MUCH lower levels and better car space ratios has caused huge amounts of parked cars on the streets such that the roads can no longer take two passing cars. Maclaurin parade cannot accommodate parking at the steep bottom end with the other roads turning into it. Will be dangerous for children walking the streets and cycling, and other drivers.
It does not address the lack of deep soil issues, and the set back from the street is not in line with Kurringai Council's plans.
The greatest concern for residents in our street Alexander Parade is the evaculation plan in the event of bushfires. This proposed development is intensely close to land that is bushfire risk (and we all know that because when we do changes to our homes we are required to spend loads of extra money ensuring houses are equipped to withstand fires), but there simply won't be a safe evacuation plan for the extra houses, and you have to remember there are at least two other developments in Pockley and another at the top of Pockley (larkin) that will be claiming the same approval at this development if you allow it to go through. It will be on the government if lives and property are lost because of the poorly planned situation. The plans for 11 stories cannot be approved and the government needs to ensure all existing and other potential developments that may come up in this small pocket can be accommodated.
I would also like to know where the statistics about extra cars per hour in the morning come from. Every car will leave their home with a three hour time frame.....how does 260 car spaces only equate to small additional car numbers at the lights to exit. Who signs off on this stuff because it doesn't make sense to any of the residents who watch so many cars go up our street from Findlay every morning?
Also like to point out the 15+ times the pedestrian traffic lights have been knocked over by trucks working on development sites in Maclaurin Parade and Corona Avenue in the last few years. This will only increase 10 fold with 11 story developments in the many sites available in this pocket. How is the government ensuring safety of residents in this circumstance. Are you limiting the truck sizes to single trailer and NO double trailer trucks??
Thanks for your consideration.

I object to this over development as a long stand resident within the immediate area.
My primary object is one of safety, for the current and proposed new residents to the area. To the west of this development (Alexander Parade) where I have lived for over 25 years it is known to be within a Bushfire Prone Area and my house is zoned as such. I have been advised by senior NSW Fire Brigade personnel that the access to and from our street is current resident and any further development would put the lives of residents and first responders at risk.
Add to that the congestion that currently occurs at the corner of the Pacific Highway and Maclaurin Parade, where access to the highway during morning and is a nightmare, and this is PRIOR to new residents moving into the NEW units built in Maclaurin and the NEW development at the Roseville Memorial site, the safety of users has been totally underestimated by Council. This development ADDS another 180 units or 285 carparking spot to this congestion !!!!
My other objection will be in line with all reasonable thinking residents:
• Increased height from original development application
• Increased floor space ratio
• Increased dwelling numbers
• Reduced car spaces
• Still does not address the lack of deep soil
• set back from street not in line with Kuringgai Councils plans
South West Roseville is the ONLY suburb within Kuringgai council that has a bushfire risk within 800m of the station and they want to add in thousands of new units and cars to this danger zone without addressing traffic concerns.
The slope of the development and surrounding area is of big concern when it comes to bushfires. Hence extra traffic and congestion from such a large development would really impact safety of the neighbours and potentially be life threatening. The development IS in the ember zone of bushfires, please refer to council’s bushfire simulation they created in August 2024
In summary this is a total overdevelopment and creates an unsafe environment for residents in a congested area of Roseville.
I object in the strongest terms to this development.

In June this year I objected to the previous version of this application. I am concerned that my issues with the development have not been addressed in the amended application.
For completeness I have repeated points previously raised here, and I have added further clarifying information.
"In particular I am concerned about the strain on the local community that we will be caused by this and other proposed developments in the precinct.
These concerns are:
- the scale of the development, and the associated overcrowding they will cause
- the inadequacy of the local road system to deal with increased traffic volumes
- traffic studies should consider the totality of increased traffic volumes of ALL existing and proposed developments within the precinct, not just an incremental approach
- the inadequacy of the road network to cope with emergency situations, such as bushfire"

I am now writing to lodge my objection to the amended development application. While I acknowledge the inclusion of affordable housing and design refinements, I remain deeply concerned about unresolved issues relating to traffic congestion and emergency egress in the event of a bush fire.

Traffic & Congestion
The proposal introduces 285 basement car spaces for 180 apartments, adding hundreds of vehicles to a constrained cul‑de‑sac street network. Combined with the parallel Larkin Street proposal, this equates to 435 additional vehicles, funnelled through only two narrow exits onto the Pacific Highway. This will exacerbate existing peak‑hour congestion and significantly impede daily movement for residents.

Emergency Egress & Fire Safety
Pockley Avenue and surrounding streets form a closed‑circuit cul‑de‑sac system, leaving limited evacuation routes. In the event of a fast‑moving bushfire or other emergency, evacuation would be severely compromised. Families with young children, elderly residents, and those with mobility challenges would be at particular risk. The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) fails to demonstrate compliant evacuation modelling or adequate bushfire risk mitigation, despite SEARs requirements to assess these hazards.

Request
Given these unresolved risks, I respectfully request that the Department:
Require a comprehensive traffic impact study addressing cumulative effects of both Pockley Avenue and Larkin Street developments.
Mandate a robust bushfire evacuation plan, including modelling of vehicle egress under emergency conditions.
Reconsider approval until these critical safety issues are satisfactorily resolved.
Thank you for considering my submission. I urge the Department to prioritise community safety and infrastructure capacity before approving this development.

Developers and NSW Government are facing legal action, reputational risk, and human safety risks if further development is completed in South West Roseville - Pockley Ave/ Larkin Rd, without addressing known and escalating bushfire evacuation vulnerabilities.

I’m aware the development site is not Bushfire Prone Land (BPL) but there are many properties in the surrounding closed circuit road loop on Alexander Pde and Findlay Ave which are BPL. The extra cars due to the excessive height of your ugly ghetto into the closed circuit loop (landlocked) will be an LA disaster waiting to happen! The slope and topography of the land is of great concern for such a high risk bushfire area. Extra traffic for your two developments will cause MASSIVE traffic congestion and will really impact the safety of the surrounding neighbours (and the people living in your ghetto) and could be life threatening. Your ghetto development IS in the ember zone of bushfires, please refer to a bushfire simulation which was created in August 2024 which shows how quickly a fire can spread from Alexander Pde to Pockley/ Larkin and Maclaurin Pde. This can be found on facebook as the following location:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=549581280725607&id=100070212184472&_rdr

This South West Roseville area – Larkin St, Larkin Lane, Pockley Av, Maclaurin Pde, Alexander Pde, Corona Ave, Kings Ave and Findlay Ave – IS a bushfire prone precinct which is landlocked and half the properties are on BPL and all of the other properties are within the ember zone. It has limited evacuation routes, increasing residential density and constrained emergency services access. If further development is allowed NSW Government and developers will be open to legal action – do you want another LA bushfire to happen in Roseville?? The area already exceeds safe evacuation thresholds. Increases in traffic (and housing developments) must be matched by increases in exit capacity. Imagine all the fire trucks coming in and residents all trying to exit on the already constrained exit paths, extra cars and parked cars on streets all making all the roads in this area single lane only = death trap.

I would like to know how the state government and the development are addressing the above concerns? Developers are ignoring bushfire and cumulative traffic risk assessments as required under Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021. The South West Roseville area already exceeds safe evacuation thresholds as per Cova 2005 study that concludes a precinct which has 3 roads exiting should accommodate only 301-600 households to ensure safe evacuation. We currently have 766 homes planned and existing homes – well above the threshold.

Further reasons why I object this development:
- Bushfire trap half properties and on BPL and all in the ember zone
- Increased height from original submission, your development looks like a ghetto compare to the lovely developments 7-11 Pockley and on Maclaurin Pde.
- Increased floor space ratio and dwelling numbers
- REDUCED car spaces (causing even further concern for bushfire evacuation as more cars are now on the streets causing congestion YOU ARE IN EMBER ZONE!!)
- Still not addressed the lack of deep soil and the facade is GROSS
- Environmental concerns – topography of land is not fit for further development. Water runoff will increase due to reduced natural land for water to be absorbed. This will impact further down the hill in the creek between Alexander Pde and Shirley Road and will see potential land erosion to residents who’s properties back onto this creek. Legal action will take place if residents properties are eroded due to excessive runoff caused by upstream / uphill developments.

We understand development is coming, we just want it thought through properly and our concerns addressed. Why don’t you start 4 stories at the top of the hill on Larkin and using the gradient of the land go down to 7 on the bottom side? I know developers won’t make as much money, but at least the residents and surrounding residents will be safer.

I write to you to object the development happening at the Pockeley Ave strip due to bush fire concerns and traffic concerns already as it is ( we have one way in and out of our little cul de sac) yet you want to add 1000s more units in without consideration for the future well being and traffic/ amenities control.

We objected originally and the new updated requests
to the development of:
- Increased height from original development application
- Increased floor space ratio
- Increased dwelling numbers
- Reduced car spaces
- Still does not address the lack of deep soil
- set back from street not in line with Kuringgai Councils
- access onto Pacific Highway extremely limited and only worse with more traffic from further development. Imagine us all trying to turn right onto Highway or exit in an emergency
- ⁠streets too narrow for emergency vehicles to come down with parked cars on streets and all of us trying to exit in frantic, smokey, extremely stressful situation.

This is on top of our previous objection letter dated June 2025 where key concerns were:
- excess building heights
- traffic and parking congestion
- Bushfire evacuation risk and potential litigation
- overshadowing due to height
- streetscape
- environmental concerns, water runoff, threatened species due to endangered micro bat population in the vicinity

Thank you
Alison Lai
0405808228

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I am appalled that this massive development could be allowed to be built in this area.

Firstly, there are 2 other large apartment complexes in very close proximity, one opposite (almost finished) and one only 50m away. (Under construction).

Second, has anyone from the planning dept actually been to the site and then ventured down McLaurin, Pockley, Larkin, Nola, Kings, Corona, Alexander and Findlay streets? If you had you would realise that access in and out of this area is already limited. ALL these streets lead back to the Pacific Highway. There is only one feasible R hand turn leading South, at McLaurin and Pacific Highway, which is NOW congested and not only during peak hours. Again access from the north to this area is only available from this same intersection. Traffic waiting to turn R into McLaurin often blocks south bound traffic as there is no dedicated right turn signal.

This is normal every day traffic movement NOW. How can this street accommodate at least another 180 cars?

Whilst you say that this development is not on bushfire prone land, consider that all the houses in the streets beyond this development are on designated bushfire prone land. Now imagine (not difficult, as the situation has occurred in the past) a fire raging up from the Lane Cove National Park. How do all these residents make a fast and safe exit from this area? This massive development only compounds the fire safety risk to the residents.

Whilst I acknowledge that we need more housing and affordable housing close to public transport, I strongly believe that this proposed development is way too large for this area.

Please send someone from the Planning Department to talk to the residents in this area and actually see why we are concerned.
Sincerely
Kathy Raine

I refer to my previous submission on this project on 17th June 2025, and add the following comments.
-I am aware that the above development will go ahead in one form or another. Since my original submission, I note that the new development now has an increased height from the original applicaiton, increased dwelling numbers, floor space ratio and reduced car spaces. Further, the set back from the street is out of line with Ku-ring-gai Council guidelines.
-My major concern, however is if a bushfire emergency occurs. I am aware that the land of the proposed works is not on bushfire prone land, but the development is in the ember zone of bushfires and the inevitable impact has been the subject of a Ku-ring-gai Council bushfire simulation created in August 2024. Our property (27 Alexander Parade, Roseville) is in the bushfire prone zone, as are many properties in the Alexander Parade and Findlay Avenue.
-There is already an issue with accessing the Pacific Highway during peak congestion times, and the extra traffic and congestion from such a significant development would severely exacerbate safety issues should my family and our neighbours be told to evacuate. A potentially life-threatening situation is possible in the event of a rapidly developing bushfire in Lane Cove National Park.
-I would urge the NSW Government to reconsider the extent of the proposed development, as any reduction of the proposed number of units and the consequent traffic and congestion would increase safety margins for local residents.