25 Smith St Fitzroy VIC 3065

Hi,

I object to the scale of the project at 25 Smith Street, Fitzroy.
A building of 9 stories is inconsistent with the streetscape North of Little Victoria Street and the overshadowing will be significant on 33 and 35 Smith Street. The construction of the basement will also negatively impact the foundations of the adjoining buildings which are considered to have heritage value.

Smith Street has an enviable reputation as still being authentic and retains a village feel despite being in such close proximity to the CBD. The introduction of towers, such as the one proposed, risk destroying the image and reputation of the street, devaluing it and stripping it of character.

I hope you will judge this plan as inappropriate for the location and have the developer make a more suitable plan, inline with the streetscape.

The Yarra Planning Scheme does not support 8 storeys + rooftop 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.