18-20 Lady Game Drive, Killara, NSW

I am totally against the proposal for such a development on Lady Game Drive as this road is a major thoroughfare, already being very narrow for such a busy road. Cars park below the pedestrian crossing adding confusion to the single lane road.

During weekday mornings and afternoons the bank-up of traffic is appalling - extending from the traffic lights on Ryde Road and back past the round-about on Fiddens Wharf Road. Sometimes it is impossible to exit from Bowes Avenue due to the bank-up of traffic necessitating turning around and going back up Gleneagles Avenue. As for making the right-hand turn into Bowes Avenue from Lady Game Drive (right opposite the proposed development), this at present can create havoc but if another one hundred or so cars are entering and exiting a child care centre, there will be an even greater backlog.

I would assume the little road running parallel to Lady Game Drive will also be used as a car park (as at present) for parents dropping off and collecting children from the school. This will add another hundred or so pedestrians holding up the traffic as they cross the already exceptionally busy road.

The inadequate pedestrian crossing creates a mammoth problem with not only school children and parents who already use the crossing but the addition of another hundred or so parents using the crossing during already busy peak hour periods.

I would imagine the only way to control traffic would be to block off Bowes Avenue for entry and exit on Lady Game Drive.

This is a residential area whereas the proposal is for a business.

The landscape and other residential facilities must be affected and undergo changes if this development was to be approved.

I am totally against this proposal and so should Council/Councillors who are our representatives.

Hi,
as a local resident. One of the biggest problem of our area is the traffic on lady games drive as it is the only way out if you want to go west or north. it is already a big headache in the peak hour.

I understand 15 additional cars per 30 mins add to 400 car traffic is not a big deal. But what if there is a car driving on the southbound right turn into Child Care centre, which need to give away to the forth coming traffic and block all the traffic behind. And additional pedestrian will stop the cars from both direction.

I have 2 young kids which will benefit from the new child care centre but for the long term, it doesn't feel like it is good for the local resident. there is an additional child care centre is under construction probably 500 metres away (Little Zak Academy) which i believe it will help the local resident with child care problem anyway.

Just my 2 cents.

regards,
Kevin

This proposal is unbelievable and unworkable. We live in a residential area ...this proposal is a commercial business and the area would have to be rezoned I presume to accommodate this application. Why....just another grab for money? for Council and the business...so forget the residents who have to negotiate even now the traffic hazards and snarls at Bowes Avenue entrance to Lady Game Drive.....never mind the children walking to Killara School as well with the pedestrian crossing to just make life even harder still!

Please wake up everyone!....we do not need this business here , there is already one in Fiddens Wharf Road which should not have been allowed in the first place..

Kuringai Council is here to serve the residents not business.....make sure that they do the right thing by refusing this application....otherwise we will lose trees....landscape amenities and worse than that add to the dreadful traffic chaos that Bowes Avenue entrance causes . I live in Gleneagles Avenue....and guess what? this will turn Gleneagles Avenue into a thoroughfare to get to Pacific Hyway.. This has to be stopped now!

Kuringai Council are you listen to the residents who you serve?????

Michael Johnson

I severely object to the proposed Childcare Centre development at 18-20 Lady Game Drive, Killara.

Lady Game Drive is fast becoming one of the worst roads in Sydney. It is completely inadequate for the volume demands being placed on it by the Macquarie and North Ryde developments. Peak hour runs from 7am all the way through to at the earliest 9:30am. The traffic can be absolutely horrendous, banking back to the roundabout at Highfield Road going South in morning peak. Adding the extra burden of a business into the middle of this congestion is absurd to say the least. It will increase the real risk of a pedestrian being hit on the nearby crossing as frustrated drivers will lose concentration.

The proposed entrance directly opposite the intersection with Bowes Avenue is also not a sensible proposal as Lady Game Drive is a single lane road at this point. You cannot create a commercial property entrance at an already compromised intersection. Is Council going to widen the road to accommodate people coming from the North waiting for a break in the Northbound traffic to turn into the premises?

The Traffic and Parking Report provided by the developer uses outdated data from 2005 and then a 5 day period in the month of December 2014 (note that Macquarie University has finished for the year) which is not a typical time of the year to choose. Then the spreading of when they “believe” that cars will be entering and exiting the premises is just a made up assumption to minimise the supposed lack of impact.

Additionally, there was a new childcare centre opened on Fiddens Wharf Road recently, one now being built on Manning Road (which was denied by Council but then over-ruled by the Land and Environment Court!), and now someone else wants to cash in on the lucrative business on Lady Game Drive. Including the other established centres in the area, we will have upwards of 5 childcare centres in 1 square kilometre! This is surely not right.

Why are our residential streets (Fiddens Wharf Road, Manning Road and now Lady Game Drive) being turned into commercial business areas? They are areas for families to live in, not for people who do NOT live in the area to come and make money!!