I live in the Wickham community which has worked collaboratively with the City of Newcastle over many years to develop the Wickham Community Infrastructure Plan and the Wickham Master Plan to guide development in the local area. There is currently a 70 metre height control, and the proposed development is more than double this height at 150m. I am concerned about the negative effects on infrastructure, traffic, overshadowing and residential amenity. Wickham has a strong maritime and industrial identity/history which is being eroded by bland, generic developments such as this. Please allow the area to follow its current agreed plans. We don't want the access to and amenity with the waterfront to be blocked. If the height of this development is allowed, it will open the flood gates to further developments of this nature. There is already a traffic problem with Throsby Street being the only exit from the precinct in a southbound direction. This is a narrow road being used by many different types of commercial vehicles.

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Too high
Too many people
Too few car parks
Too much anti social behaviour in the area

The fact this development has the title of state significance should not allow it to disregard the affect this project will have on the Wickham area in general.
: This project appears poorly planned in regard to providing enough car parking for the number of proposed residents
: Wickham is already challenged in the amount of available street parking and the proposed development has nowhere near enough parking allocations for the number of beds planned in the development.
: Concerns over the height of the building compared with the previous development Bowline which fell through apparently due to the water table issues have these been addressed?
: Lack of clarity in regard to what co living refers to
: Who will the affordable housing be made available to especially with the proposed linking in of a large hotel facility
:Affect of a five floor hotel on general living in what is to be called the Throsby Village
:No clarity in regard to opening hours along with the parking challenges again causing overload in the area.
:Lack of clarity as to what brown communal space refers to
:Lack of clarity as to the affect of the water table issues and what the plan is to address this
:What style of hotel is actually planned for this site.
:The affect of the occupancy of the building on the current interchange and the challenges currently experienced through the number of homeless people this will attract
:Rational behind the planning of this tall building and its affect on the general visual feeling of Newcastle
: Added traffic on Charles st and the Wickham area in general
:Where is this covered in the planning document

I believe that 43 storeys is out of character for Wickham area. Something of similar height to the surrounding area developments would be far more suitable.

This project does not meet the requirements of the Wickham Master Plan. This plan has taken a lot of planning by the community. Community needs must be met. The building is not in keeping with the other developments in the area.

I have a few grave concerns re this submission, and I feel they have major importance to the proposed development.
Already the traffic on Hannell St and all surrounding smaller streets connecting to this project are used to capacity. To add that many more businesses and residences to the property would be a huge overkill. Parking in the area is also a major concern as it is already limited for the current needs.
Besides the traffic and parking problems, what about the availability and effectiveness of all the utilities required not just for this project but for the whole surrounding areas. Is the infrasturcture there - I doubt it.
Another concern is that already 3 or 4 other developers have had to abort their plans for this site at least partly because of the water ingress onto the site and this proposal is certainly much bigger than anything else that has been proposed so there has to be some risk there.
We already, in the Newcastle West area,have quite a few high rises and even 2 more nearing completion nearby. This new proposal would even out-rise those which is now definitely bordering on overkill in this area.
Development in our city is certainly acceptable but not such an overkill in this limited access and already over utilized area.
Let's make sure we get things right in our beautiful city - not just overkill in areas already stretched.

I object to a 43 storey development in Newcastle regardless of the mixed use proposal. Recent developments above the originally planned 9 storeys for the Newcastle city area are literally destroying the skyline of Newcastle. The current city towers are an eyesore on approach to the city from surrounding hillsides and these apartment towers have spoiled the city’s low level appeal and appearance forever. No more uninterrupted views to the ocean and harbour from the surrounding area and obviously for neighbouring apartment dwellers and lack of privacy for house occupants underneath the towers. Overshadowing is already occurring from existing apartment towers over Newcastle Beach and that is a major issue that has been allowed by the government. Very soul destroying for the once pleasing city fabric that it will become a cold and overshadowed wind tunnel in the city precinct and this includes Wickham. Parking scarcity resulting from apartment block developments has destroyed the potential to bring commercial operators and small businesses into the downtrodden Hunter Street in particular part of the city as shoppers have nowhere to park and especially not for free close by to shops.

Dear Assessment Officer,

I'm writing to object to the proposed development at 10 Dangar Street, Wickham (SSD-89869959).

I live in an apartment nearby and I'm genuinely concerned about what this project would do to the area. The 43-storey height and the floor space ratio being proposed are way beyond what's currently allowed in Wickham, and I haven't seen any proper explanation for why this particular site should get such a massive exemption from the planning rules we all follow.

The scale of this building just doesn't match what's already here or what the community signed up to when those planning controls were put in place. Without stronger justification, it doesn't seem fair to ask people in Wickham to accept this kind of impact.

On top of the height issue, I'm worried about where people are going to park their bikes and motorcycles. This end of Wickham is already packed with traffic, buses, pedestrians and cyclists moving around. Adding another 43-storey building is going to make that worse, and the plans don't show they've properly dealt with where visitors and residents will actually park their bikes.