97-101 Queen Street Melbourne 3000

Bike parking requirements should not be waivered, particularly as City of Melbourne is promoting the use of bike lanes. In fact, I suggest the bike parking requirement should be increased. Hotel and restaurant staff are often the very people who cycle to work and certainly require and deserve secure and safe bike parking.

The City of Melbourne Planning team should conduct a careful audit of surrounding buildings to ensure a roof terrace, to be used as a bar and function area, will not impact on residential amenity.

The City of Melbourne Planning team also needs to ensure there is an appropriate designated smoking area for hotel guests and visitors. This should be on the premises, perhaps the roof top, and certainly not encouraging smokers to loiter on Queen St.

Austral Lane amplifies noise making the over 30 apartments very difficult to live in. The Chase Lounge, Citiclub often break noise levels and bottle curfews. A rooftop bar will result in noise at an unbearable and unlivable level impacting on the guests and residents in the Treasury on Collins. Austral Lane transforms at night into a noisy, antisocial, drug dealing, underage drinking, unsafe place where both male and female publically defecate. A rooftop bar will increase this.