5 Tamarama Street, Tamarama NSW 2026

This is right at the top of the precious gully which has carefully over decades been rewilded. None of this intense development should be at the expense of the nature that is finally recovering. None of the water runoff, sunlight loss, digging the underground car park, night lights or any part of the building or demolition should interfere with Tamarama Gully.

I support the two new homes at 5 & 5A Tamarama Street. It’s gentle infill on a cleared, vacant lot in an R2 zone—exactly the kind of small-scale supply that helps people like me buy a first place near family, work and friends.
I love Tamarama Gully too, but this site isn’t in the gully—the gully is further to the east—and the plans include deep-soil landscaping and a Stormwater Management Plan so runoff and local ecology are looked after.
The design meets the LEP’s height and FSR standards and sits comfortably in the streetscape, which is what good, incremental housing should do.
Two more well-located homes—near transport—are a practical, low-impact way to welcome new neighbours and keep locals in the area.

Implying that by supporting this type of development is supporting young families and young renters buy their first home is a furphy. Anyone buying anything this close to the beach is clearly monied.
You don’t buy anything in this area, matchbox, garage, flat or house for under a cool couple of mil.
Waverley Planning laws must be adhered to.
No first home owners buy into Bondi unless they have plenty of capital.
Developers are the winners from transgressing height limits.

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