I oppose this development because of the following reasons:

- no local benefit: private luxury retirement development offers no affordable housing or community benefit

- overdevelopment: six-storey apartment with 149 apartment complex is not seen anywhere else along lagoon street. The only examples I can think of in Narrabeen - Collaroy are two developments which have caused serious coastal issues and are major eye-sores (eg. Flight Deck)

- visual intrusion and overshadowing: this will block ocean views and overshadow neighbouring properties

- traffic and safety hazards: 300+ vehicles entering lagoon and ocean st will worsen congestion and reduce safety

- flood and coastal risk: located in a flood and erosion zone - unstable for dense development

- tree removal: removal of mature trees destroying habitat, coastal screening and local amenity

- environmental impact: threatens the fragile coastal dune system and bird habitats

- no local consultation or consideration by developers

The proposed construction is not in keeping with its surroundings. A 6 storey building in this location with the proposed footprint would create huge traffic and parking problems. The streets are busy and not wide enough for existing volumes of traffic to enter and exit safely from current residences. Street parking is already insufficient for current needs on all the bordering streets.

This design and scale is a blatant contravention to the character and planning of the peninsula, both the existing and future.
It belongs in bankstown or lakemba.
6 stories in a 3 story area? There should be a call for an investigation if this progresses.

The development is too large for the area and does not take into consideration existing strain on traffic & parking that would be further impacted by another 250+ cars as well as boats and caravans likely to come with this demographic & style of living.

Capitalist pigs the lot of them.

5-6 storey building in this area is too big. Parking is already limited for current residents in the immediate streets and this will only put a larger strain on us trying to find parking close to home.
Further to this, visitor parking spaces need to be more than what’s on the plans.
In addition to this, we already have struggles turning out of side streets into Ocean St due to the high amount of traffic on Ocean St. This will only add further long term congestion to the area.
We also live within direct view of the nursing home. We will lose privacy on our own property with levels higher than the current building.
Lastly, last reports said that Narrabeen was ruled out for mid/high rise buildings within 400m of town centre. Why is this then being approved? This will open the flood gates for more developers and take away from what makes Narrabeen a desirable suburb to live in compared to our neighbouring suburbs of Collaroy and Dee Why.

You cannot knock down and make six story Unit blocks, here Otherwise, every single person will and no one in this area wants that keep Taylor Village the same or update it at the same height

As a resident of ocean street narrabeen I object the development. It is incredibly heartbreaking that it has come to this. Had the housing been affordingable and achieveable for local residents, this could have been a different story. It is overdevelopment and overcrowding of a beautiful local area. There is not enough street parking for locals never mind the residences visitors, second vehicles, boats, trailers and then staff parking! It will cause great environmental impact to animals and birds including cockatoos and sea eagles and the removal of trees.

The 6 storey structure is not consistent with the existing 2-3 storey buildings and recently approved buildings. The federal government has already recently approved areas in Sydney and the Northern Beaches for an uplift in height limits. These were areas with infrastructure transport and amenity that could sustain an increased population. The development targets the wealthy and does not adequately consider people on middle to low incomes.
The location is also susceptible to climate change, rising sea levels, and lake levels.
Existing properties with long standing views, solar paths will be impacted negatively in regard to over shadowing and property values.
In summary, developers should be proposing developments in areas that are aligned to the government housing strategy. Near transport hubs, major shopping centres and healthcare.
I do not think a 6 story dense development of this type suits or enhances the area.

I own an adjacent property which will be impacted by the development in its current form.
The current plan has too many storeys. The 5/6 story proposal sets a precedent for further high-rise development on Ocean Street.
The future environmental impact. Traffic on Ocean street is already excessive with little or no off-street parking. The current plans describe only “7 VISITOR SPACES for 149 INDEPENDENT LIVING UNITS AND 10 BED RESIDENTIAL CARE. This will prove to be wholly inadequate.
What is the impact on water displacement with proposed 3 level basement ?
Impact of noise, impact on the natural environment + light pollution + the shadow the building will cast on the adjacent units.
I think the whole project should be scaled back to a more realistic size which will be sympathetic to the area and take into account the impact on the locale.
My concern is that, given the description of the proposed plan [including such , arguably irrelevant and obsolete luxuries as a cinema and library] suggests that the developer is solely concerned with maximising profit with no concern for the impact on the local environment.
I appreciate the need to develop the site and the greater need for aged care facilities but this project is misplaced.
What the area needs is low impact, affordable housing, not luxury accommodation , out of reach for the average person , desgined by a company with likely little concern for the wider community.