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1. This proposal is changing a leafy beautiful suburb into unit style living. With the charm and beauty that Australia boasted dwindling away.

   It is a sad sad day for all those Australian who love the suburban relaxed lifestyle

2. I am pretty upset about the proposed development, especially so many beautiful trees, over 30 trees, to be knocked-down, which was the No. 1 reason of mine to object this development.

   My objection to this development due to,
   1. About 34 trees to be knocked down which will destroy the existing street view and may reduce the property values of surrounding properties.
   2. The concrete-block looking of the development is not suitable the street characters.
   3. 24 private cars driving in-and-out the site are causing huge safety concerns to local residents, especially the students walking passing the site.
   4. No much green areas are shown on the floor plans to each dwelling, though 980 m2 garden area mentioned in the design file out of 2,400 m2 site area.

   I got questions about this garden area figure, 980 m2. In my understanding the traffic paths, transit routes and carparking cannot count into garden or entertainment area.

3. Far too many dwellings on the two lots.
   8, maybe 10 is more realistic, but the area is starting to look similar to bulleen, doncaster with all these mini housing estates & losing its beautiful character

4. Kew and Balwyn are losing the very characteristics that they were valued for - peaceful, beautiful green suburbs. The streets and infrastructure were not built to accomodate multiple dwellings on one site. Where there was one house, we now see a plethora of tall units, with multiple cars, and no trees.

   Burke Road is a nightmare to travel through: I live off Burke Road, and avoid using it as much as possible, using the side streets instead.

   So very, very disappointed with the way Kew and Balwyn have changed over the last few decades, and the continued and ongoing demolition of beautiful homes and gardens to make way for concrete building block units.

5. If you take a moment to look away from the traffic, Burke Road in Camberwell and Kew still has many fine and distinctive houses, though quite a lot have gone in the past decade to make way for apartments. The State Government's vision is to have higher density dwellings along the main thoroughfares and Boroondara Council has not been able to respond effectively to maintain the neighbourhood character that most of its residents want. The only effective way to protect these distinctive buildings is via a heritage overlay and Council has made mistakes in applying heritage overlays and has left loopholes that developers are able to exploit. 1207 and 1209 Burke Road do not have heritage protection, which is why they have been targeted for development. That section of Burke Road south of Cotham Road is now becoming apartments with some remnant heritage houses.

   Like most such development proposals the application proposes to remove all the mature trees on the site (except one near Burke Road in this case). It is proposed to remove 32/34 established trees on the site and plant 16 new ones. The objective is to place as many units on the block as possible and claim that established trees will be replaced and neighbourhood character will be preserved! What nonsense! The claimed 43% site coverage and 40.7% garden area for the development appear to be overestimates.

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