Letter of project support attached

There are major safety issues with such a large number of truck movements per day with two schools and a sport precinct on Sheraton Road where these trucks will be travelling.
If there is an intention of using the newly developed Boundary Road when it connects to Sheraton Road this feeds into a residential area, will create traffic safety issues, truck noise too early with the plan to start at 7am Monday to Saturday with an Aged Care facility on Wheelers Lane and an over 55’s Lakeview village on Boundary Road. The hours of operation need to be shortened and number of trucks per day should be much less frequent.

This is a pre-approval matter that needs to be sent to [email protected] to collate a combined response from both NRAR and DPIE Water.

Kind Regards,

Deb

Good afternoon,

We live on Maretimo street and have two boys who attend the Balgowlah Boys campus school; class of 2025 and class of 2027. One of our boys has dyslexia and ADHD which already makes school studies a little more effort than that of his peers. We specifically moved to this neighbourhood and school zone so that our kids could have a good educational basis for their future by attending a reputable school.

After reading the EIS we have concerns about the project which we hope will be considered.

* Noise. It is our interpretation from your papers that the construction associated with the tunnel and ventilation stacks will create a continuous intermittent noise at pretty much the level of a gas powered lawnmower operated without hearing protection. This noise level would never be acceptable for a regular worker in a daily workday. And school children obviously cannot wear hearing protection during classroom instruction. What mitigation for the school day noise levels does this project have to offer? This level of noise will have significant impact to health and wellbeing of students trying to function in the adjacent area to your construction as well as significantly retard the students ability to focus in learning.
* The concrete batching facility is to be located across the Sydney road from the school, which is incidentally down the street from our home. What mitigation will be provided to school students at a minimum during the midday lunch and recess periods, and to homeowners who either wish to have outdoor dinner time, swim in the pool, or otherwise breathe outside air, dry laundry etc. when the air is contaminated with the dust and other inflammatory allergen particles associated with concrete and filler mixing materials?
* We also are concerned with the traffic. The EIS states that 1,195 light truck movements, and 495 heavy truck movements per day will occur at the corner of Sydney Road, Maretimo Street, and the link road. We have been living at the far end of Maretimo street for 2 years now. Without the construction started, it is a good 5+ minute wait to exit Maretimo road onto Sydney road, and that is assuming you are outside school hours. The intersection of Maretimo street and Sydney road is at, or above, capacity already without the additional 1690 daily vehicles. This is not acceptable planning and not a sustainable venture for the stated 5 years that residents are being “asked” to endure.
* In addition to the stress on family quality of life and safety that this addition of 1690 vehicles to daily traffic, there also are the human health impact of air quality degraded by the fumes emitted by these heavy construction vehicles.
* I myself have had major inflammation issues from the poor air quality on the Northern beaches and have had little relief from medication. Time has shown that spending as little time outdoors as possible and using only recycled and filtered air brought relief. My boys have only begun to show the beginning signs of these same health issues with daily headaches which subside only at the peak of the day. The further reduction of air quality due to construction vehicle emissions and traffic will have significant impacts to all of our health and to the boys’ ability to achieve the education which forms the basis for their adult lives.

We are not favourably impressed that the EIS plan and comment collection for this plan has largely been posted for comment during the summer vacation when families are most stretched either with travel or with summer camp activities on top of work schedules, and thus it feels as if this has been timed to reduce feedback.

* The comment period to this EIS should be extended and a information campaign conducted to inform the local residents (at a minimum to all residents and businesses located on Maretimo street).
* A working group for the school and Maretimo street and surrounding streets would be advisable.
* Live websites or regular public information meetings should be held to inform the public of any contractor design changes and should not be implemented without at least a 1 month public comment Collection prior to any implementation of change
* A board should be established for local citizens and businesses for the reporting and collection of statistics regarding health impacts (asthma like, allergic, dust and air quality, mental health from stress, traffic or noise level aggravation, and safety to pedestrians or from increased traffic incidents). The statistics should be maintained on a live count on a public website for the entire public to see.

I apologise that these comments are not better articulated. My husband and I both are very pressed for time. We felt it best to submit the broad strokes of our concerns rather than to miss the comment opportunity deadline. We hope you will consider the impacts to the local environment and community and al the comments which we, the school, and our residential community have provided.