This is not in keeping with the neighbourhood and will cause additional load on the infrastructure, which is already strained.
There is also not enough provision for parking and ocean street has no space for more cars.
The last point is that there is only one road off the peninsular and it is already busy. With increasing weather events, the ability to evacuate is already strained. This additional elderly population will further strain emergency resources.

I live on Garden Street. My son will shortly be attending St Joseph’s primary school on Ocean Street. I am appalled at the scale of this development. It will add significant traffic and parking to an already congested road, as there is insufficient parking within the development application. Given the height it will have a detrimental impact to the surrounding dwellings. Most alarming to me is this development does nothing to address the acute demand for affordable housing in the area. My sons childcare teachers and many of the local primary teachers all have to commute long distances into the area due to the lack of affordable housing. This major development provides opulent housing for a set of extremely wealthy pensioners at the expense of local ratepayers. This development needs to be scrapped or significantly scaled back. I see no community benefit to this development.

I object to the following proposal. This is not the area to be building a 6 storey retirement village.

I am not opposed to a senior housing building as long as it stays under 3 stores as other buildings in the area. I oppose to a 6 stores building at Ocean St.

This is just another example of the breakdown of the rules-based order of good governance. The local Development Control Plans are formed for good reason and best intentions of everyone in mind. When Large corporations and government collude to bypass these controls it becomes a violation of the civil rights and liberties we all subscribe to but obviously not all.
There are so many aspects to this proposal that I see as questionable
All of the assessments are desktop studies using questionable methodologies. Any consultation with immediate neighbours has been avoided to obscure the magnitude of the building for as long as possible. Now that the details have emerged the extent of that subterfuge becomes apparent. The visual impact study is laughable, to stand at the corner of Octavia and Ocean St and declare the impact as low suggests something seriously wrong with the assessment criteria. The floors have been numbered in the plan to try and obscure the fact there are in fact 6 levels. The solar shadow this building casts on the surrounding neighbours especially during the winter months is extensive affecting all adjacent properties to the east and south, of which my property is one.
If I had to summarise I would say there is an underlying level of deception in all of the planning assessments and plans specifically focused to ensure the planned development fits within the developers objective rather than the planning constraints designed for social and environmental inclusivity.
The design when taken out of the context of its surroundings is fine and admirable but in its present location it is completely out of character in every regard. It will be over twice the height of some rather ugly 4 story unit blocks opposite, a reminder of past dubious planning assessments. To see this development go ahead in its present form at over twice the height of these would propagate that blight on the character of the area for the next generation. I can make no apologies for speaking out to say a development of this magnitude is not in keeping with the character of the area and sets a poor precedent for the future of the area.
In order to retain any respect for local government I would expect this development to be stopped forthwith and major changes applied to resize this development to fit within an acceptable form in keeping with the immediate local area.

You have written to me as a neighbour affected herein. I object to the development and submit the following:
Generally,this is an unnecessary interference with the comfort and health and,indeeed the very life of hundreds of people surrounding, who will now be subjected to the noise ,dust, debris ,traffic confusion and all the other ramifications of major construction for the life of the project for say up to 5 or more years.
Massive such projects re only suitable for virgin sources ,not already developed areas.
Present day 156 etc Ocean Street is the wrong place and time for projects such as this; in spades!
The removal of the vast volume of sand overlay ,partly below water level to create the empty space to accomodate the underground car park(about 200 spaces)will have an unknown effect on future stability and erosion of the whole peninsular.Certainly the applicants concede some for there is an admission of some very low risk to person and property
(whether as to actual occurrence or only the strength of any such not being clear).
Stability and erosion problems have been experienced for some years now in the Col-Narra area and continue without any resolution in sight.
Traffic and parking congestion is pretty much at its limit now and any more,as is certain, will create a n impossible situation for current residents.
The loss of sunlight to so many by this massive and high structure is deemed ,and rightly so, to be a major objection for so many.and once its gone its gone.
Whilst low risk may well be an apt test for virgin work places ,the only apt test for a long settled and working situation is “no risk”.
However one looks today it remains”wrong time- wrong place”.

The peninsula cannot support a development of this size. Parking is already very difficult and the development doesn't have nearly enough visitor parking. I live adjacent to the block and already often park 2or 3 blocks away from my unit. It will be chaos

6 storey is not suitable to the area which only has 3 storey. This will set a precedent for future builds in an area that is already congested with traffic. NOT OK.

To whom it may concern,

Having lived in the area for over 40 years i strongly object to this development for a myriad of the following reasons and not in any particular order.

Scale...way too much in every sense, too tall, too bulky, too many residences, too heavy in terms of materials, overall way too imposing on the streetscape and surrounding residences.

Height...LEP 2014 permissible height 8.5M ... Proposed height of development 21M!

Design...nothing about this development says "coast"...would sit just as well in Narrabri as Narrabeen and Narrabri locals would loathe it too. Incompatible with surrounds in a BIG way.

Change of use...the idea that we, the locals, believe at all that this facility is a considered response and improvement on the current aged care facility is laughable... it's a brazen land grab for maximum profit with nothing but a token nod to it's zoning and current usage, a cynical exploitation of of it's privileged and much needed aged care use function it had until recently.

Precedent problem...as we have seen over and over and over around this area one terrible blow out in what has been permitted leads to an explosion of similar asks, lowering the bar in a race to the bottom of what's permissible aesthetically, socially, and culturally continually lessening the community aspirations for the area they know and love and attempt to protect for future residents to enjoy.

Transport...the Northern Beaches is not well served with public transport nor road infrastructure.
The distance from the B-Line stop to this development is a problem for the age group it is designed to serve.
Local traffic has experienced substantial increase over the last decade with new apartment developments stretching local road infrastructure, particularly intersections past reasonable limits.
Proposed parking of 178 spaces for 149 apartments plus 10 beds will undoubtedly result in unsustainable shortfall of on street parking in an area already experiencing problems. With visitation taken into account a shortfall of 50-60 car spaces is calculated.

Coastal Inundation Zone...the coastal erosion problems along Collaroy Narrabeen Beach are probably the most well documented in Australia and given the IPCC predictions (that are currently being shown to be underestimates) for sea level rise and storm activity chaos to allow a development of this scale in this area at this time with this knowledge beggars belief and is in the interests of no one but those who are attempting to profit by the vast overdevelopment of this site.

This development fails in so many ways to have any meaningful support from the community it wishes to "serve" and thus HAS NO SOCIAL LICENSE largely because it so totally ignores and abuses the planning guardrails and thus community expectations making its current form a cynical greedy grab thatmost assume will be tempered and a compromise reached. The over-reach of this proposal is so blatant it is clear the developer has no wish to work with the community but rather ride roughshod over it and impose its contentious cookie cutter cringebuild in an area so ill-suited to it.
It flagrantly transgresses the Seniors SEPP 2004, the LEP 2014, NBC Coastal Hazard Assessment 2022,RMS Guidelines, Apartment Design Guide (traffic generation) and community expectations and as such I implore that Consent be Refused under the planning and assessment Act 12979 and substantive changes be made reducing the height, scale, number of apartments, loss of care beds, and requiring full parking compliance.
Brendan Donohoe BTP (UNSW)

The concerns are the traffic, its a section of Ocean St that has joggers, cyclists, walking people with prams, approaching Narrabeen from Pittwater water Rd and Ocean St at this point slows traffic on Pittwater Rd with a bottle neck type traffic jam that on certain days back back to Manly, week days are in peak hour a the same, the amount of traffic the is bumber to bumber all from Narrabeen.
The bottle neck traffic jam that is existing at the bottom of Wakhusrt Parkway and Pittwater Rd is truly a badly planned part of the Northern Beaches, and to entertain the idea of making it worse and making the Pittwater Rd and Ocean St turn off more congested is absolutely eye watering.
The fire Station has trucks that will be slowed , the ambulance station will be slowed and making it difficult for them.

The traffic through Narrabeen is some of the worst traffic jams in Sydney, Narrabeen has visitors the are wanting to visit the beach because its beautiful, if this building was built Narrabeen would not be as beautiful as it is right now.

Of course there is more people coming to Australia, but also coming to Narrabeen, im sure a smaller building will be a better idea, to help with the housing crisis, to build a giant building that dwarfs every other building is a insult on Narrabeen in my opinion.