46 Smith St Collingwood VIC 3066

8 stories seems far to high for this area. Surely something more in line with existing structures would be more suitable. There is so much large construction going on in Collingwood, do we really need an 8 storey building right on the main Street?

8 stories is way too high. There are so many new high rise buildings in Collingwood now, in the Peel, Cambridge, Langridge area especially. The area has completely lost its feel, it’s dark & shaded all day. So many people don’t want to live in the area any more because it’s been so over developed. At least can we leave Smith St it’s character please?

8 stories on Smith street. Does this just end with Bronx style ghettos in Collingwood where no one wants to live. The current multi storey developments are just crating windy, dark canyons at street level with limited set back. Please stop letting developers overbuild this area as it is already in trouble. The focus should be on street level heritage not bulking masses above.

As one of the small businesses who will be demolished to make way for this 8-storey monstrosity, we can probably be considered to be biased. But... we chose to establish our local, small business at this location 6 years ago due to the unique character and heritage qualities of the neighbourhood. There are now half a dozen planning applications, within a few hundred metres, for inappropriate 7-8 storey developments on the street. Almost every corner site is set to be bulldozed. Walk just around the corner to the wind tunnel, light deprived ghetto of Langridge/Cambridge/Wellington Streets for a sneak preview of the future of Smith Street. Heartbreaking and irresponsible.

The Yarra Planning Scheme does not support 8 storeys along Smith Street. The Scheme specifically states that the implementation of the built form strategies in clause 21.05 and 21.08 of the Scheme includes:
- Ensuring no new development presents as a dominating built form along Smith Street;
- Ensuring new development respects the scale of adjoining existing clusters of low rise residential development;
- Require development within Yarra’s activity centres to respect and not dominate existing built form;
- Smith Street is a classic main road strip generally consisting of buildings of two to four storeys interspersed with the occasional building of up to 6 storeys (described as signature buildings); and
- Development within activity centres should generally be no more than 5-6 storeys unless it can be demonstrated that the proposal can achieve specific benefits such as significant upper level setbacks, architectural design excellence, best practice environmental sustainability objectives in design and construction, high quality restoration and adaptive re-use of heritage buildings, positive contribution to the enhancement of the public domain, provision of affordable housing.

This is yet another example of overdevelopment in Collingwood. Nobody comes to Smith Street to admire residential towers - most shops along the North end of Smith Street are now closed due to demolition & construction. These small businesses won't be back.

Please protect the fine grain heritage nature of Smith St.