I object to the project for the following reasons: -

1.Recent residential development in terms of the number of dwellings is already well in excess of what the State Government originally proposed for the Epping precinct. Developments of this nature and size near the Urban Activation Precinct should be put on hold until necessary infrastructure and community facilities have caught up with population growth. This proposal plays down this growth by using figures from 2011 rather than the more recent population estimates in the council’s Epping Planning Review of 2016. This is very misleading.

2. Epping needs commercial development in parallel with residential development. This proposal allows for approximately 1.5% of the floor space for commercial uses, which is effectively none. This continues the deliberate and short-sighted approach of recent Epping developments which have seen more than 10,000 jobs leave Epping and will leave the suburb effectively a dormitory with little retail activation during the day.

3. The proposal includes a minimum of 5% affordable housing. In fact, that is a measly 22 units. There has been no affordable housing anywhere else in Epping during this redevelopment. This government-owned land has the chance to address this by undertaking a substantive housing project with an appropriate NGO agency.

4. This development will preclude the use of any of this land to ameliorate traffic on the Carlingford Rd/Beecroft Rd intersection, which an east-west link traffic link through the site may have provided. This link was a key element of the council’s Epping Traffic Study.

5. The site is isolated from the Town Centre by busy Carlingford Rd and one of the worst bottleneck junctions in Sydney. How are the 1200 or more residents of these towers to gain access to the Metro Station? If these 1200 people have to use pedestrian crossing on Carlingford Rd, what effect will this have on the delays in excess of one hour at peak periods that are forecast by the Epping Traffic Study for the Beecroft Rd, Carlingford Rd intersection?

6. The EIS indicates that other massive developments on the western side of the railway line are currently under consideration. These include a 40-storey development at 59-79 Beecroft Rd (700 dwellings) and a 45-storey development at 49 and 53-61 Rawson St (1194 dwellings). Unfortunately, as usual each of these developments is being considered in isolation from the others but in fact they all affect traffic, infrastructure and community facilities cumulatively. We urgently need a precinct plan which looks at all proposed developments as a whole to work out what Epping will look like in the future.

7. The only Community open space provided with this development is effectively a small area around the through site pedestrian link between Cliff Rd and Beecroft Rd.

8. The consent and approvals bodies for each stage of this development are not clearly defined in the EIS. As a State Significant Development, this falls under the Minister for Planning for approval. However, that means this site is not being seen properly in conjunction with other developments, or within the greater context of the challenges facing the Epping Town Centre which the City of Parramatta council are having to deal with. The Trust would like to see Council front and centre of these approval processes, since we can at least talk to Council people; it is in our experience that it is almost impossible to talk to a State Government officer who has the capacity to make changes to a project.

9. More units here would create even more parking problems. Already Ray Road, Edensor Street and Rosen Street are full during business hours with workers and students parking there and walking to the station. As these towers never include enough parking for the residents, they would have to park in the streets too and this would clog up the surrounding streets even more.

10. There has not been enough consideration for the fact that the site is next to a creek which is home to many creatures, some species which are threatened. Our local environment needs to be considered seriously and handled with care, please don’t just let the developers do what they want and pollute our area.

Thank you for reading.

I object to the project for the following reasons: -

1. 1.Recent residential development in terms of the number of dwellings is already well in excess of what the State Government originally proposed for the Epping precinct. Developments of this nature and size near the Urban Activation Precinct should be put on hold until necessary infrastructure and community facilities have caught up with population growth. This proposal plays down this growth by using figures from 2011 rather than the more recent population estimates in the council’s Epping Planning Review of 2016. This is very misleading.

2. Epping needs commercial development in parallel with residential development. This proposal allows for approximately 1.5% of the floor space for commercial uses, which is effectively none. This continues the deliberate and short-sighted approach of recent Epping developments which have seen more than 10,000 jobs leave Epping and will leave the suburb effectively a dormitory with little retail activation during the day.

3. The proposal includes a minimum of 5% affordable housing. In fact, that is a measly 22 units. There has been no affordable housing anywhere else in Epping during this redevelopment. This government-owned land has the chance to address this by undertaking a substantive housing project with an appropriate NGO agency.

4. This development will preclude the use of any of this land to ameliorate traffic on the Carlingford Rd/Beecroft Rd intersection, which an east-west link traffic link through the site may have provided. This link was a key element of the council’s Epping Traffic Study.

5. The site is isolated from the Town Centre by busy Carlingford Rd and one of the worst bottleneck junctions in Sydney. How are the 1200 or more residents of these towers to gain access to the Metro Station? If these 1200 people have to use pedestrian crossing on Carlingford Rd, what effect will this have on the delays in excess of one hour at peak periods that are forecast by the Epping Traffic Study for the Beecroft Rd, Carlingford Rd intersection?

6. The EIS indicates that other massive developments on the western side of the railway line are currently under consideration. These include a 40-storey development at 59-79 Beecroft Rd (700 dwellings) and a 45-storey development at 49 and 53-61 Rawson St (1194 dwellings). Unfortunately, as usual each of these developments is being considered in isolation from the others but in fact they all affect traffic, infrastructure and community facilities cumulatively. We urgently need a precinct plan which looks at all proposed developments as a whole to work out what Epping will look like in the future.

7. The only Community open space provided with this development is effectively a small area around the through site pedestrian link between Cliff Rd and Beecroft Rd.

8. The consent and approvals bodies for each stage of this development are not clearly defined in the EIS. As a State Significant Development, this falls under the Minister for Planning for approval. However, that means this site is not being seen properly in conjunction with other developments, or within the greater context of the challenges facing the Epping Town Centre which the City of Parramatta council are having to deal with. The Trust would like to see Council front and centre of these approval processes, since we can at least talk to Council people; it is in our experience that it is almost impossible to talk to a State Government officer who has the capacity to make changes to a project.

9. More units here would create even more parking problems. Already Ray Road, Edensor Street and Rosen Street are full during business hours with workers and students parking there and walking to the station. As these towers never include enough parking for the residents, they would have to park in the streets too and this would clog up the surrounding streets even more.

10. There has not been enough consideration for the fact that the site is next to a creek which is home to many creatures, some species which are threatened. Our local environment needs to be considered seriously and handled with care, please don’t just let the developers do what they want and pollute our area.

Thank you for reading.

I object to the project for the following reasons: -

1. 1.Recent residential development in terms of the number of dwellings is already well in excess of what the State Government originally proposed for the Epping precinct. Developments of this nature and size near the Urban Activation Precinct should be put on hold until necessary infrastructure and community facilities have caught up with population growth. This proposal plays down this growth by using figures from 2011 rather than the more recent population estimates in the council’s Epping Planning Review of 2016. This is very misleading.

2. Epping needs commercial development in parallel with residential development. This proposal allows for approximately 1.5% of the floor space for commercial uses, which is effectively none. This continues the deliberate and short-sighted approach of recent Epping developments which have seen more than 10,000 jobs leave Epping and will leave the suburb effectively a dormitory with little retail activation during the day.

3. The proposal includes a minimum of 5% affordable housing. In fact, that is a measly 22 units. There has been no affordable housing anywhere else in Epping during this redevelopment. This government-owned land has the chance to address this by undertaking a substantive housing project with an appropriate NGO agency.

4. This development will preclude the use of any of this land to ameliorate traffic on the Carlingford Rd/Beecroft Rd intersection, which an east-west link traffic link through the site may have provided. This link was a key element of the council’s Epping Traffic Study.

5. The site is isolated from the Town Centre by busy Carlingford Rd and one of the worst bottleneck junctions in Sydney. How are the 1200 or more residents of these towers to gain access to the Metro Station? If these 1200 people have to use pedestrian crossing on Carlingford Rd, what effect will this have on the delays in excess of one hour at peak periods that are forecast by the Epping Traffic Study for the Beecroft Rd, Carlingford Rd intersection?

6. The EIS indicates that other massive developments on the western side of the railway line are currently under consideration. These include a 40-storey development at 59-79 Beecroft Rd (700 dwellings) and a 45-storey development at 49 and 53-61 Rawson St (1194 dwellings). Unfortunately, as usual each of these developments is being considered in isolation from the others but in fact they all affect traffic, infrastructure and community facilities cumulatively. We urgently need a precinct plan which looks at all proposed developments as a whole to work out what Epping will look like in the future.

7. The only Community open space provided with this development is effectively a small area around the through site pedestrian link between Cliff Rd and Beecroft Rd.

8. The consent and approvals bodies for each stage of this development are not clearly defined in the EIS. As a State Significant Development, this falls under the Minister for Planning for approval. However, that means this site is not being seen properly in conjunction with other developments, or within the greater context of the challenges facing the Epping Town Centre which the City of Parramatta council are having to deal with. The Trust would like to see Council front and centre of these approval processes, since we can at least talk to Council people; it is in our experience that it is almost impossible to talk to a State Government officer who has the capacity to make changes to a project.

9. More units here would create even more parking problems. Already Ray Road, Edensor Street and Rosen Street are full during business hours with workers and students parking there and walking to the station. As these towers never include enough parking for the residents, they would have to park in the streets too and this would clog up the surrounding streets even more.

10. There has not been enough consideration for the fact that the site is next to a creek which is home to many creatures, some species which are threatened. Our local environment needs to be considered seriously and handled with care, please don’t just let the developers do what they want and pollute our area.

Thank you for reading.

I would like to object to this development. There are already many more homes than originally planned for Epping. This development adds 442 homes, which would mean approximately 1,200 residents. The development at 59-79 Beecroft Rd plus the developments at 49 and 53-61 Rawson St will add another 1,894 new homes. The roads are already very congested. In fact, Carlingford Rd/Beecroft Rd/Epping Rd is one of the worst bottlenecks in Sydney. We need to ease congestion, not add to it.
Originally the plans were for commercial and retail space, but in the current plans, this is negligible at 1.5%. As 10,000 jobs have left Epping, it is essential to have a much larger commercial and retail space to bring in more workers to Epping, so that businesses can be utilised during business hours. Epping needs to be revitalised as a business hub.
It is essential that infrastructure and public amenity improvements are made before more and more apartments are built. In particular, the schools are becoming very crowded. Epping West Public School now has almost double previous enrolments, making the school too large. Playground space has given way to demountable classrooms.
This development proposes virtually no open space.

I oppose this project on the grounds that high density development in the proposed location will negatively impact the liability of the people residing in Epping.

The Beecroft road and Carlingford road intersection is already a bottleneck that causes traffic problems for the residents of Epping, and people passing through Epping.
High rise developments, including the Langston towers have been approved and are under construction, adding to the traffic problem.
The new metro is already at almost full capacity in peak hours for people travelling in the direction of Chatswood in the morning, and travelling from Chatswood to Epping and further west in the evening. A huge amount of development to the west of Epping will add to this problem.

As a resident of north west Sydney for my entire life, and apartment owner in Epping now, my own experience in living in north west Sydney is extensive. North west Sydney has historically had problems with congestion from people travelling to their places of work. This problem cannot be resolved by adding high density development. This will only add to the problem. What is required is for the west, north west, and south west to be a destination for commuters, not just a place to live.

The commercial and industrial developments in Bella Vista and Norwest have been a positive advancement. I have worked in Bella Vista for around 10 years. Part of my reason for working in the area is the ability to travel westerly to work. I am lucky to be able to do this, because employment options in this area are a lot less than to the east of Epping. I propose there needs to be more commercial and industrial development in Epping and further west of Epping.

At the very least, the proposed area needs to be a greater mix of commercial and retail than the proposed amount.