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I have an interest in a property at 1806/7-9 Gibbons Street Redfern and have friends who own live in the property next door and as result, I wish to place my strongest objection to this 'amended' application. And these amendments are mainly internal and minimal in the oval view of the building envelope.

Despite receiving 126 submissions opposing the development next door at 60-78 Regent Street, the Planning Assessment Commission approved that development in August 2015.

My major concern with this proposal at 80-88 Regent Street is that it joins the development at 60-78 Regent Street and as a result, Gibbons Street residents will lose ALL their natural direct eastern sunlight.

Apart from it being an over development for the site, there should at least be spacing between the two buildings to allow some sunlight to flow into the affected Gibbons Street properties, similar to what has been created around Darling Harbour, where the high rise buildings are spaced apart.

The properties located on the eastern side of Gibbons Street will also suffer a great loss of privacy.

The community's major concern is when we have the opportunity of transforming Redfern into a warm area in which people can live, high rise `cold' buildings are being approved, similar to the ghettoes up in Kettle Street which we approved in the 1960s.

60-78 Regent Street should never have been approved and this application should also be declined in its present form, because of its bulk and the affectation on the neighbouring buildings, residents and the community in general.

Yours faithfully,
Stephen Sim
Tele: 0419 275 275

I am very disappointed with many major development happening in the small parcel of land opposite Redfern station. With many approvals recently, a new one 88 Regent St in particular made me to write this objection. I believe the approval of these huge developments have not taken into account areas such as lighting, overcrowding and perseverance of heritage buildings.
I believe recently 88 Regent St was objected by The City of Sydney (the City) due to non-compliance with the height controls for the site, and also include the functionality of the proposed child care centre.
22 public submissions have been received to date, with 19 objecting to the proposal.
Due to the objections, they have recently revised and submitted a MINOR CHANGES !!
- Introduction of additional commercial floors at the lower levels;
- Reduction in the number of residential apartments from 79 to 56;
- Reduction to the tower floorplate - specifically an increased setback to the northern boundary (to the Iglu student accommodation development).
OUR MAIN CONCERN FOR URBA IS WE WILL LOST ALL OUR NATURAL SUNLIGHT and OVER DEVELOPMENT. NO PRIVACY BETWEEN BUILDINGS. WIND TUNNEL, LOSS SOLAR AMENITY

There should at least be spacing between the two buildings to allow some sunlight to flow into the affected Gibbons Street properties. The high rise buildings should be spaced apart.
The proposal of 18 stories high at small parcel of land is unreasonable and overcrowding showing how greedy the developer is on farming the small parcel of land. The building should be lower, more harmonious and slanted.

I object to the above DA proposal. The noise level of the current construction site adjacent to my premises is interfering the enjoyment of my property. The proposal mentioned herein will further extend the noise level and disrupt my right to the enjoyment for the extended period.

I make a further submission on the dust from existing construction and raise health concerns for residents with respiratory issues. I have dust covering the outer walls and windows of my balcony, which requires more than the reasonable amount of cleaning at my own expense in order to restore to the reasonable standard of enjoyment.

My final submission concerning the issue of privacy. The close proximity of the proposed construction to my premises has impinged on my rights of privacy in my own resident. This requires on my part to apply DA to construct shutters in my balcony to preserve my rights, the cost will be paid by residents that are affected by this DA including myself, which can be avoided.

I object to the proposed DA mentioned herein!

Existing (Victorian?) building facades should be retained as has been done with the adjoining development in order to maintain the streetscape and retain the human scale of the structure.

Dear NSW Planning & Environment,

I object to this development on several grounds all which goes into making this vibrant residential area untenable to live. I object to:
1) The height of the building which will dwarf and reduce light to area around including my block.
2) The excessive number of apartments that are already being build it the area with no increase in infrastructure.
3) The increase in number of people again deteriorating already breaking point infrastructure such as open areas and transport.

Thank you
Deepak Khuller

I am writing to say that I object to an 18 story high building on this already congested block, an 18 story block would simply just turn this area into an over crowded junction with no extra roads to support additional residential influx.

this whole site has not been in keeping with the heritage listing of the facades the architecture is ugly and haphazard - there has been not thought into any design aesthetics and the buildings are all just thrown in haphazardly. They dwarf all the original beautiful heritage facades into complete insignificance.

This block should be in keeping with historical Redfern - Roses Corner- now its just ugly Redfern Junction.
I completely object to 18 stories and 4 levels under ground parking.

I say give this corner back to the community - keep it 3 levels maximum, this corner should be community facilities a library, a community centre. Coffee shops and restaurants to give back some community atmosphere instead of a mass of concrete towers.

Already those towers block out valuable daylight to all the surrounding terraces and apartment blocks - please reject 18 stories its not logical and Redfern does not need another bottleneck.

All of the new businesses have all kept in line with the local council guidelines and built up fantastic small businesses and have created Redfern's new emergence we don't need another building developer building high-rises that is not in keeping with the fantastic Redfern environment - it will just kill it and all the vibrant small businesses will move on and Redfern will become just another Junction like Bondi and Chatswood.

thank you

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