Anthony Rolfe Avenue, Gribble Street, Gungahlin, ACT

There are several pressing issues that must be amended by the developer before this planning approval should be granted.
1. This building proposal is too tall and too large for the space it will inhibit. The block size and shape will not comfortably fit a building this large.
2. It will completely derive many of the apartments on 6 and 8 gribble street from receiving any natural sunlight at all, which was a key design feature of the apartment buildings there. Depriving people of any incoming sun also ruins the solar passive aspect and design of the apartments, increasing heating costs for residents. This dearth of sunlight will also tank the value of apartments for owners and landlords.
3. The size and aspect of the proposed building mean that instead of a natural view, many apartments at 6 and 8 gribble street will instead be looking directly into their cross-street neighbours. This raises both privacy and long term value concerns for residents in 6 and 8 Gribble street.
4. The parking and traffic situation is already dire along Gribble street. There are vehicles parked illegally all along the street at all times of day, adding more residents whilst decreasing parking options will lead to more accidents and poor behaviour.
5. Adding another tall building in a row in that location will create an amplify a current wind tunnel effect that occurs along Gribble street currently. This is already dangerous for people and property.
6. The combined emergency services group adjacent to the proposed development have privacy and security concerns around having private citizens directly overlooking their areas of operations. Again, reducing the building height for the proposed development would help alleviate this.
7. That same combined emergency services group utilises a very loud and very large exhaust fan that blows hot air directly into the lot of the proposed development. The developer will have to pay to have that relocated or risk their builders hearing with dangerous decibel levels running 24/7.

As you can see, most of these concerns can be alleviated by reducing the maximum height of the proposed development- the sunlight, loss in value and loss in privacy concerns from residents in 6 and 8 gribble street and For the combined emergency services building staff as well. Do the right thing by the affected gunghalin residents and reduce the size and scope of the proposed development. If the building were to be a maximum of 2-4 stories, almost all of these concerns would disappear, and community acceptance would increase.

Thank you for reading my submission, I hope it helps inform your final decision.

1. Parking in the area is already a huge issue and this new apartment block will have limited parking spaces, increasing the parking issue significantly.

2. The understanding is that these won’t be completely residential, thus not actually helping the current housing crisis.

3. The recommended site is very small and it’s planned development seems unrealistic for the site size.

4. It will look directly over the emergency services centre. I can’t imagine they are overall thrilled about this proposal.

5. The development will cause serious traffic issues as it is on a main commuter route in and out of Gungahlin and situated right on the road.

6. Gungahlin’s current infrastructure is not suitable for the already congested and over populated area. The infrastructure of the area should be priority!

There are several pressing issues that must be amended by the developer before this planning approval should be granted.
1. This building proposal is too tall and too large for the space it will inhibit. The block size and shape will not comfortably fit a building this large.
2. It will completely derive many of the apartments on 6 and 8 gribble street from receiving any natural sunlight at all, which was a key design feature of the apartment buildings there. Depriving people of any incoming sun also ruins the solar passive aspect and design of the apartments, increasing heating costs for residents. This dearth of sunlight will also tank the value of apartments for owners and landlords.
3. The size and aspect of the proposed building mean that instead of a natural view, many apartments at 6 and 8 gribble street will instead be looking directly into their cross-street neighbours. This raises both privacy and long term value concerns for residents in 6 and 8 Gribble street.
4. The parking and traffic situation is already dire along Gribble street. There are vehicles parked illegally all along the street at all times of day, adding more residents whilst decreasing parking options will lead to more accidents and poor behaviour.
5. Adding another tall building in a row in that location will create an amplify a current wind tunnel effect that occurs along Gribble street currently. This is already dangerous for people and property.
6. The combined emergency services group adjacent to the proposed development have privacy and security concerns around having private citizens directly overlooking their areas of operations. Again, reducing the building height for the proposed development would help alleviate this.
7. That same combined emergency services group utilises a very loud and very large exhaust fan that blows hot air directly into the lot of the proposed development. The developer will have to pay to have that relocated or risk their builders hearing with dangerous decibel levels running 24/7.

As you can see, most of these concerns can be alleviated by reducing the maximum height of the proposed development- the sunlight, loss in value and loss in privacy concerns from residents in 6 and 8 gribble street and For the combined emergency services building staff as well. Do the right thing by the affected gunghalin residents and reduce the size and scope of the proposed development. If the building were to be a maximum of 2-4 stories, almost all of these concerns would disappear, and community acceptance would increase.

Thank you for reading my submission, I hope it helps inform your final decision.

1) More congestion to already crowded and busy Gribble and Anthony Rolfe St. The lot is too small for 45 aparments with only 11 car parking provided

2) Worsen the existing car parking issue. Creates traffic jam and risk on road accidents

3) Bad investment on residential and commercial owners of Gribble and Anthony Rolfe St as flow on effect from items #1 as well as creates privacy concern to opposite apartment

I hope the existing issue will be resolved first before approving further developments and those new developments would be reviewed meticulously that would help ease and not aggravate the existing situation.

Parking is already a major issue in the area. The proposed location is already a dirt carpark. Building a 10 story commercial premise with 45 apartments and less than half the number of carparks than apartments is not good town planning.
A petition on parking was signed by enough locals to be tabled in the assembly, what was the answer, crickets. Bad planning.
The height of the proposal would impinge on the apartment building across the road blocking sun and views. Nothing worse than looking into someone else apartment, again bad town planning.
Short term accommodation does not solve any of the current issues, just lines some companies pocket. Given Abode across the road is closing down soon to be replaced by more apartments, really where is the need? Bad planning?
Develop the site by all means, but design something sympathetic that adds to the local community, not takes away from it.
Cheers.