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1. I do not agree on this boarding house development because ;
   1)I do not feel safe living next door I have 2 years old son playing on my backyard all the time.
   2) I will do not have privacy due to 34 rooms of the development site and the level of the first floor can see through it.
   3)I am worried about crime,stealing,break-in in my house.
   4)parking problem due to the development site is next to the main road and will not be enough car park under the basement for 34 rooms it can happens that they will use our visitor parking or maybe park on our driveway if in this case it can make a major problem for us
   we cannot get inside our driveway from the big main road (woodville rd)it can have a big accident for me and my son and I do not want that to happened.
   5)I am so sure this place will over crowded .it is very small site for 34 rooms .

2. I do NOT believe this proposal benefits any current and future residents with this as-built exiting layout and condition of the building. It was built not mean to be this purpose with 34 rooms which could possible lead to 34 families and more in this tiny location.

   I have further concern with this proposal as stated below:-
    Woodville Road is an extremely busy main road across Parramatta, Merrylands, Guildford, Villawood, etc. There is very minimum parking space along this Woodville Road; we (531 Woodville Road) have only 10 units, (aka 10 households) with 24 car spaces and 3 visitors parking. We still always struggle for parking space. I cannot image with this 34 rooms (possible reached 34 household) what car spaces can be accommodated in this location.
    This proposed property sharing a common timber wall (only 2.0m height); from No. 527 side, this common wall has one timber in between (can be used as ladder) which just 1 step to climb over our No. 531 property (individual unit private garden). With 34 rooms (34 households) we really think this is a major issue with all our exiting 10 units’ residents. It is our privacy issues also our safety issues.
    The proposed property initially is built with 9 units (townhouse) that we are comfortable with because it will be similar of residence (headcount) like us. If now proposal to change of use to be Affordable Rental Housing with 34 rooms (estimate one room 1 house household of 3 people), about 102 people living in an original designed property. It is unfair to us that we might face noise pollution, higher risk of crime (particular we sharing a low common timber wall), etc. With this proposal the headcount (population) could possible triple or even fourfold of original property plan.
    This population increase, also increase the threat of our privacy, as you can inspect our property, our 531 Woodville Road, ground floor and first floor (which sharing the common wall with this proposed site No. 527) are all full glass door. In other words, it is transparent to all proposed property 527 Woodville Road residents, initially we believed it is will be mid-range income household to be afford these townhouses, and it is matching our surrounding residents. Now it is proposed to be Affordable Rental Housing without properly plan and structural build for a living space, I believe it is very unfair to surrounding exiting residents, in term of living quality, space quality, environment quality, etc all will be affected.
    The proposal also mentioned about a manager’s room; I really cannot figure out how this proposal could work with the exiting layout that not initially built for “Affordable Rental Housing”. It is a shame that building a townhouse like design property and uses it for an Affordable Rental Housing and separates each townhouse room to 34 rooms as a potential individual household room. I look at the attached drawings and I really thing this proposal does NOT benefit surrounding residents at all; moreover it is not suitable for “Affordable Rental Housing” future residents as well.
    Finally, across Woodville Road, I believe houses along this road are highly potential for good property pricing. It will definitely jeopardize our surrounding property pricing once this proposal been approved. Simply not merely because it is Affordable Rental Housing, but also this property is not as-built for this many residents for living.

3. This property will be absurd to have 34 rooms which only few metres away from the property next door (531 woodville rd). No privacy, no security..We as residents sometimes find it difficult for our visitors to find parking as there are limited, almost none space to park along woodville Road. I don't imagine how these 34 households can park which may jeopardize our lifestyle. Our privacy is severely impacted as No. 527 can easily have a clear view of our property without any aid of any instrument. As the mother of a young boy aged 2 years old I'm deeply concerned about the crime rate neighbourhood if the proposal were to be approved. The common wall we share with No. 527 is short enough for anyone to jump or climb over. We stongly oppose this proposal.

4. Property: Lot 190 DP 1060765, 527 Woodville Road, Guildford NSW 2161
   together “Proposed Development”

   This submission is in objection to the Proposed Development. The reasons for our objection is as follows:

   - The Proposed Development will result in a significant increase in the density of residents in a small area. The increased number of residents in the area will result in a corresponding increase in street traffic and an increase requirement of parking on the streets which the current development does not provide for nor is there sufficient infrastructure currently in place to cope with this increased traffic. Further, infrastructure in the area is not in place to handle increased density of population proposed by the development, including street lanes, shops and services.

   - The Proposed Development will impact the socioeconomic factors of the area. It is an up and coming affluent area, which needs residents that can contribute and build local demand in retail and other areas. The Proposed Development will effect this, as the residents of the development cannot afford to contribute to the area in comparison to the alternative residents. This area cannot handle increased population without the accompanying positive contribution;

   - The Proposed Development will negatively impact the land value of our property. Our property is part of a new development, in which capital growth of the property is reliant on increasing demand for the area such as more developments like that of our property, rather than the Proposed Development. Building an affordable rental housing development next to our complex will severely determent the land value of our property that we had bought only 2 years ago. At that time, we had done our due diligence in regards to future developments, and this was not a part of it. The original development would have improved our land value. But if the Proposed Development had been listed at that time, we would not have bought our property.

   - Affordable rental housing sites are associated with significant increase in noise activity at unusual times of the day and will be of significant impact on our property and living quality.

   - Affordable rental housing sites are associated with increased security issues and anti-social behaviour which will impact the safety of our children and elderly.

   Given the above issues which have macro issues impacting the whole neighbourhood as well as our individual property, we strongly urge the Council to reject the Proposed Development.

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