I believe the land between Campbell's Stores and the Park Hyatt Hotel should be open space. This would

* protect the Stores by providing the heritage setting needed for people to fully appreciate this building and making sure that its northern side is visible
* honour the legacy of the many Sydneysiders who, in the 1970s, saved The Rocks from inappropriate development and preserved the 19th century buildings the then Government wanted to demolish
* improve public access to the foreshore and also public safety in accessing and exiting the foreshore (especially on New Year's Eve) via an area that is currently a real bottleneck.
- This proposed development is totally inappropriate in this area and should not go ahead.

I strongly object to the four-storey high building included as part of the Campbell's Stores Development Application. The grounds for my objection are:

* Campbell's Stores should be visible from all four sides and not partly obscured. This is a unique opportunity to achieve this.

* Having a building or any other structure between Campbell's Stores and the Park Hyatt Hotel is entirely inappropriate. It is publicly-owned land and should only be used for landscaping and foreshore access.

* The design of the proposed building undermines and devalues The Rocks' heritage character.

* The proposed building interrupts the historic streetscape along this section of Hickson Rd and also the heritage of the Campbell's Cove foreshore

* The proposed building contravenes the 2014 Campbell's Stores Conservation Management Plan which the Heritage Council endorsed (esp. 7.5.5). The plan clearly outlines the area that needs to be retained around Campbell's Stores. This includes the area now proposed for this completely unsympathetic glass building. Approving it would destroy Campbell's Stores historic setting.

* The Conservation Management Plan states that the one-storey structure that exists on this land now should be removed (see 7.6.1). This was intended to free up the land NOT to create space for a building four times as high.

* A building like this is contrary to everything that people value about the 1960s and 70s campaign to save The Rocks.

I object to the glass brick multi-storey commercial building at Campbell's Cove in The Rocks.
Due to the heritage significance of Australia's birthplace and the efforts to protect heritage from development in this precinct I find this modern structure totally out of place and incongruous to the current visual impact of this historic precinct.
I also question why such an atrocious development which will have so much impact on Sydney Harbour's appearance has been rushed through at the Christmas holiday time.
I also question why The Sydney harbour Foreshore Authority, which has been disbanded by the State Government should have any authority to approve such a monstrosity knowing their incompetence of the past which has contributed to the reason for their demise.

Re: Remediation, Renewal and Adaptive Re-Use of Campbell's Stores, The Rocks. SSD 7056

I object to the four-storey high building included as part of the Campbell's Stores Development Application. It is good to see some plans for the Stores' renewal but NOT if
the cost is the long-term loss of the heritage setting for this important heritage-listed building. The grounds for my objection are:

* Campbell's Stores should be visible from all four sides and not partly obscured. This is a unique opportunity to achieve this.

* It's not appropriate to have a building or any other structure between Campbell's Stores and the Park Hyatt Hotel because It is publicly-owned land and should only be used for landscaping and foreshore access.

* The design of the proposed building undermines and devalues The Rocks' heritage character.

* The proposed building interrupts the historic streetscape along this section of Hickson Rd and also the heritage of the Campbell's Cove foreshore

* A building like this is contrary to everything that people value about the 1960s and 70s campaign to save The Rocks.

* We need to correct address the problems created by past poor decision-making in The Rocks, NOT compound them by allowing the construction of this unsympathetic glass building right next to one of The Rocks' most significant heritage buildings.

The proposed building would conflict in character with the closely adjacent Campbell's Stores, and would obscure both the view of one of that building's aspects and that of the harbour and the Opera House. It would constitute yet another devaluing of Sydney's scant remaining architectural heritage. The milieu of The Rocks attracts local and foreign visitors by its attractive reminders of our history: please don't let an unsympathetic development such as that proposed further damage what has, against the odds, survived so far.

I lived in this area now for 25 years. I also have a financial interest in a tourist accommodation establishment. Atmosphere is all important in tourism and a piece a very modern architecture such a the proposed is certainly unhelpful. I meet a lot of visitors around here and they all admire the area. The passengers from cruise ships are particularly impressed with the Rocks the absence of tourist traps and the old atmosphere.. Let us not destroy this please Where is Jack Monday when we need him!

I OBJECT STRONGLY to the proposal to erect a glass building in The Rocks as planned. I live in the area and regularly walk about this place. In addition, I have frequent visitors from interstate and overseas, who are always interested and usually delighted to see the old areas of our city. Why spoil it for us and them, and discourage other visitors?

In objecting to this development application SSD 7056, I take note that this proposal does not have Sydney Council prior approval as is required, was approved by SHFA in its last breadth of life and is totally premature given that the Premier Hon Mike Baird has recently announced the formation of a comprehensive study to "examine the most appropriate land use for planning, heritage and management framework for The Rocks precinct". It also appears obvious that this proposal is trying to sneak under the public radar as it is not "appropriate" or compatible with the historic nature of The Rocks. The proposal includes the erection of a 4 story commercial building on public land whose design, size and location is totally incongruous to heritage listed Campbell's Store and to the historic Rocks precinct. In addition it will severely impact an area which already has maximum traffic and human congestion. Please reject this now and wait for an holistic, master plan for The Rocks which the Government is committed to deliver.

This application is objectionable not only because it is non compliant as to height restrictions, hours of operation and insufficient noise, wind and air quality assessments but also and mainly because it proposes to build a 4 story Glass Box commercial building right next to one of the most precious heritage landmarks in The Rocks - Campbell's Stores. Campbell's Stores is heritage listed, is a rare and prime example of 19th century historical architecture and is located within the buffer zone of the World Heritage Listed Sydney Opera House. The design, size and function of this proposed Glass Box building is not only incompatible to this historical and heritage setting, it downright insults it -and it does it by using publicly owned land. You must reject this totally inappropriate Development Application SSD 7056.

The proposed construction of a new building to the north of the Campbell's Stores (referred to as Bay 12) is clearly not adaptive re-use, but a visually damaging with respect to heritage, new street-scape structure where architectural presentation and height are not defined in the substance of the DA and are currently outside the applicable Sydney Cove Authority planning instruments.
I note the loss of emergency access and egress to the Harbour front during major Events such as New Years Eve. While the body of the DA for Campbell's Stores is worthwhile , a new Bay 12 building simply should not be built.
Also a DA being submitted subversively at the end of the working year with the supporting approval of a de-constructed Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority smacks of times past where this Authority was found to be so incompetent that it needed to be resumed back into NSW Planning.