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1. Ashwood Drive is a beautiful street with a mixture of single and multiple dwelling properties. The neighbourhood has evolved over the years, as many older homes have been demolished and replaced with large two story homes. Many other houses within the suburb including Ashwood drive have large extensions added onto them which has also changed the streetscape. The neighbourhood character still remains a green environment despite this as the suburb has many open spaces including Gardiners creek walking track and a large park with playgound equipment located on Ashwood Drive. You will find many people living in Ashwood Drive do park their cars on the street that live in single dwelling houses. It is not those that live in the multi dwellings causing narrowing of the street. Ashwood should remain a family green suburb and give the opportunity for affordable housing to other young families that multiple dwellings can provide. This way we can share our beautiful suburb with others that would otherwise not be afforded this opportunity

2. Totally disagree with you.

   This city doesnt need any more people in it. We dont need any more higher density houses. In the not to distant future there is going to be an almighty crash with all the apartments that have been built.

   However, if developers must build more higher density housing. Then put the higher density housing elsewhere.

   The area is already suffering from a significant increase in congestion. The Melbourne Metro is 10 years away so there is no increase in public tranport, already the trams are overcrowded.

   Stop ruining the suburb!

3. Having read Lisa's comment I have to assume she is a developer with something to gain, as a long term resident I need to live with the consequences of development long after the developers have made their money and moved on. I moved to Ashwood to start a family because it was still a suburb with full sized blocks that provided the atmosphere I was looking for, had I wanted higher density living I would have chosen to live in a suburb that provided this, this is now being forcibly removed from me for the financial benefit of others. As for single dwellings parking cars in the street this is true but when you apply the rational that if a single dwelling needs to put a car on the street how many cars would a dual occupancy or multi story put on the street?
   Lets put a stop to over development before it becomes "normal development"

4. Not sure if Lisa is a developer, but she has raised many valid points regarding the streetscape change of Ashwood. I agree that many of the houses in Ashwood were on full size blocks many years ago. The original houses were probably no more than 13 squares in total. Now when I look around I see Monster houses some exceeding 50 squares with inbuilt swimming pools not only in their back yard but their front yards too. I am not against 2 townhouses on a block as I see no difference to this than the big single house constructions happening in the area. In fact many of these developments look nicer than the bigger homes being built, which by the way don’t need planning approval. I have lived in Ashwood for decades and watched these developments unfold and I am not a developer. I have heard of people selling off their houses in Ashwood due to these monster houses being built next to them. Then the people in these large houses are normally the first to complain against town house development. Ironic don’t you think? Lisa’s point about parking in the street is correct and many single homes choose not to use their driveways for parking their vehicles. I also think she was promoting the suburbs good points and looking at development from a different perspective. This was evident in her comments about affordability for families. I would like to add that elderly people may also like to downsize to these town houses being built and not just families. When comments are made about development causing an influx of people and that the suburb does not need any more people how do we police that? Do we ask Monash council to bring in the one child policy to the suburb? Some town houses have only two people living in them and some of those houses on steroids being built in the area can have two adults and three four or five children. And one day those children will also have cars that will likely need to be parked on the street. Unfortunately development will occur in this aging suburb but it is not only town house development causing the problems many have spoken about.

5. No disrespect but this is what happens on these web sites, people talk from assumptions and not facts. I am not a developer and Graham was right in saying I am looking at development from a different perspective. I also moved to Ashwood more than 30 years ago and purchased a full size block and raised a family that have since flown the coop. No I am not developing my property or thinking of selling.
   I just respect others rights to build monster houses as Graham states and also town house developments. I am not talking about high rise living in residential streets. I am speaking from fact when I state that the town houses I am aware of already existing in the Ashwood area are not causing street congestion. This is also an assumption that this will occur from town house developments.
   It has already been confirmed that single dwellings can contain just as many occupants, hence causing street congestion. All I say is we should respect others rights to choose the type of homes they want to live in. We shouldn’t expect a sense of entitlement because we have lived in the area a long time and we should definitely not have our view swayed on development because of the green eyed monster. Sure developers make money, but so do others building large single homes including those that renovate and extend the older homes and then sell them later for a substantial profit.
   Ashwood was a working class suburb where a mix of lower income housing also existed. It should remain a family friendly environment and refrain from snobbery. I wonder how many people commenting are still living in the original small houses? All I know is most homes in Ashwood have been knocked down and rebuilt or have had large extensions. This I know is a fact, because I see them every day. Therefore everyone in the suburb is contributing to the change in the streetscape. We simply cannot point fingers just at the developers. I am also guilty of extending and changing the features of the original home that I purchased many decades ago.

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