5-11 Hollywood Avenue Bondi Junction NSW 2022

The development is 7 minuets walk to the train and bus interchange. Please consider reducing car parking spaces to encourage active and public transport and reduce traffic impact.

Nooooo to Haggai.... There needs to be ample off street parking and garaging for residents instead of too many home owners or selfish landlords applying for and being given parking permits - and they don't actually live anywhere near BJ. She clearly knows that many people with a parking permit park all day every day in parking spots that should be vacated & shared by all visitors to The Junction.
Residents who are entitled to permits for an RPS often struggle to park anywhere near their homes!!!!
Keep stagnant cars off the streets surrounding BJ & allow shoppers to come and go. Reducing parking availability in New Developments does NOT stop people using and parking their cars......the cars just appear in the few remaining streets on the periphery of The Junction where is still no timed zoning.
Haggai - enjoy your walking. You don't speak for me!!!!

Both Haggai & Bobby don't seem to have taken much notice of the intent of the DA.
This is a commercial Hotel proposition and should therefore have enough internal off street parking for their clients needs to keep them from consuming the very few available on-street parking spaces in Llandaff, Botany and Ebley streets. BJ already has too few available parking spots for residents let alone out of town visitors. Council requirement of 0.6 spaces per unit is silly and should be 1.0 per unit, this would certainly allow new developments to reduce on-street parking. Vehicles are not going to disappear by council edict. Auto self drive vehicles will alleviate this somewhat but that is 10-15+ years in the future. I am certainly all in favour for this development to proceed. Bondi Junction could also use some additional hotel space, Merition Apartments has not created much issue with its operations and seems to be the only other local choice for visitors to our vibrant and diverse community.

Dear Commenters re DA for 5-11 Hollywood Avenue,
This development has nothing to do with parking and everything to do with short term accommodation.
This proposal is for a so called "Lifestyle Hotel" meaning accommodation to suit people who are here for the short term e.g students and more than likely iinternational students who are favouring the local language schools for that "local immersion" experience.

This DA has been submitted on behalf of Iglu who are well established in Sydney and elsewhere as providers of "Lifestyle " accommodation. This development will add more disturbance to the changing nature of this part of Bondi Junction. Unfortunately the only winners here will be those involved in the development and occupiers of the site. The rest of us trying to live here will only gain noise, more traffic chaos, loss of sun and day light and more anti-social late night behaviour that is increasing exponentially and is near impossible to curtail.

Previous Commentators have not done their research on this DA. The developer IGLU provide student accommodation in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. This proposal could house up 400 students. This so-called "Lifestyle' hotel is designed to take advantage of the influx of foreign students attending one of the eight English language colleges in Bondi Junction CBD. As they have designated it as a 'Lifestyle' hotel, it means they are Not required to provide Car parking spaces. The DA goes out of its way to explain how the facility will work. It will not have a reception desk which brings into question the word "Hotel" The location is adjacent to the Westfield Shopping Centre Car Park entrance on Hollywood Avenue. An area which gets incredibly congested during peak shopping times, throwing a swag of international students focused on their Mobiles will be an interesting mix! The building is pushing the parameters on the height limits, but this has been dismissed as only to accommodate the lift housing while the real reason is to facilitate a rooftop entertainment terrace to enhance the "lifestyle" experience. Noise travels down, and the current design of the rooftop terrace will impact residents opposite. There has been NO consideration of the impact this development will have on the residents at the Terraces on the Cnr of Llandaff St and Hollywood Avenue. The Noise statements focus on the external noise impacts on the occupants of the “Lifestyle Hotel”. NO CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO THE NOISE IMPACTS OF THE OCCUPANTS ON THE PERMANENT RESIDENTS LIVING DIRECTLY OPPOSITE. The shadow modelling of this building development on the Terraces opposite avoids after 15:00 hrs when the shadow will impact the Terraces. In Architect terminology, Blocking sunlight will affect the entire psychology of the surrounding environment. This project will negatively impact 2-8 Llandaff St. This avoidance is concerning and is an indication of the lengths that developers go to, to get their way. I am not against this facility; I do believe it would be better located on Oxford St Mall near Newland St and adjacent to Bondi Junction Railway Station. This scenario is unlikely, which leaves us with nothing but to suck it up and see the development proceed. No research has been carried out by either the developer or council into the demographics of the residents likely to be impacted; many are Aged Pensioners and consideration should be given to how this will affect our senior citizens. This development is an indication of how urban planning is done in Waverley, and I suspect the rest of Sydney. Money talks. What the developer wants in a particular location hold sway. Public amenity, Residents and Ratepayers are the last consideration. Councillors will not consider approval of this application. An independent group of experts will review it, and how much weight criteria given to the developers wants, the Council needs and Residents desired outcomes is not known. Here is the Challenge, Is it at all possible that Developers, Council and Residents could collaborate for a best practice outcome?