Boat Harbour Motel 7 Wilson Street Wollongong NSW 2500

I strongly support this proposal for more well located housing. Our community severely lacks housing, this will help get wealthier people off the market and free up older cheaper places for renters like me. We also have a severe lack of units with ocean views, reflected in a price premium, despite having 60km of coast in this council and 2100km in the state. These restrictions on housing supply are not just bad for the wealthy people that want to live there, but bad for the rest of us that face them at auctions and rental inspections. I have been rejected from several rental applications and have moved back home, it’s not acceptable that this council keeps listening to housed and happy loud obnoxious voices like KRAG who are objecting to this because they don’t like tall buildings, disingenuously pointing out minor issues, at the harm to the rest of the community.

The size of the development is too large.
The DA does not adequately address the loss of privacy and reduced light to immediate and close by established residences located opposite.
The height restriction was created to prevent significant high rise development to the immediate areas of Cliff road, beaches and Belmore Basin which would affect the amenity of those areas.
It appears that when a developer applies to (Wollongong Council) build high rise there is some loop hole that allows the height restrictions to be compromised and they manage to gain an extra level. The south elevation shows building height exceeds the 30% bonus allowance.
This time it is to allow for ‘affordable housing’ with a ‘bonus height’ allowance - developers should be granted approval with an affordable housing component included WITHOUT a height/building bonus.
The DA for 82A Cliff rd was declined numerous times for reasons such as overshadowing of heritage listed Osbourne Park. Now this?

Such a shame to yet again knock down such a wonderful Wollongong icon, albeit for necessary housing.
However, council - if its necessary then get it right.
Keep the existing height restrictions, make the developers include the affordable housing ratios, if and stop worrying about shop top development (we have enough empty shops in new developments - eg. 60 cliff rd ), respect established properties privacy (no balconies looking directly into peoples existing living areas) and address the traffic congestion both during construction and AFTER construction that something of this size will create negatively impacting the narrow one way in and out of properties directly opposite and adjacent to this address. It will be a mess.
More work and creativity required here.