25 Pentridge Boulevard, Coburg VIC 3058

Please do not reduce parking required.
Cars are a necessity for most households and public transport/cycling is often not a viable alternative. A reduction in car parks will result with more cars parked on streets that are already overcrowded and will continue to be way over capacity with the high rise building residents who don't have enough car parking and the visitors to the new shopping centre. Please do not reduce the parking required.

Has any attention been paid to providing additional open space for this large-scale development, that is, beyond the woefully low percentage mandated by planning regulations? With an increasing population, Council needs to act urgently to create more parks and other 'green' facilities such as community gardens. Such an intensive development will also increase tendencies towards a heat island effect within an over-developed Pentridge site (which it may not be now but will be in the future). Coburg Lake and the Merri Creek will also come under further pressure from greater numbers of visitors, many of whom will be local residents. Council has recently passed a new strategy for the 'greening' of Coburg. Perhaps Pentridge is a good place to start.

Please increase the ratio of green space needed for such a development. The stage 4 lockdown has highlighted the lack of green space and the extra pressure on existing green spaces and the inability of existing spaces to meet the local community need and cater for mixed use. Very poor planning to date.

Good planning would not involve jamming as many dwellings as possible into the area. The amenity, green space, traffic, parking and transport for new and existing residents will not be served by such development. How about planning something responsible and aiming higher?

Please do not allow any decrease in parking requirements.
Please do increase the amount of open space.
Please do increase the number of bike spaces.

The objective by developers to jam as many dwellings on a site as possible should be looked at and what we need is sensitive development and in the light of the lockdown experience we need access to bike and walking paths as well as green space. This is what makes a liveable city and a vibrant community.