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1. Not sure what a building has be to qualify for some sort of heritage protection. Somehow we can protect the concrete silos in Richmond but governments don't care when greedy developers bulldoze 100 year old properties like this, ruining the character of the suburb for ever. It is just shameful that governments (on both sides) are actively encouraging this all over Melbourne.

2. There should be some sort of character or heritage overlay on this property. It is a beautiful renovated Victorian Edwardian, ready for a new family to look after it. Instead it will house many transient people, to add to the over population of our now suburb! Car parking and traffic is already so bad in Belsize Ave, especially once the other block of ugly appartments is finished just down the road on the corner of Neerim and Belsize. There is something wrong and worring about all this development in Carnegie. It needs to stop or slow down now! Before all good families move out and it becomes a huge concrete eyesore, and no doubt more crime.

3. I was horrified to see this proposal. I notice that a lovely Edwardian house is to be knocked down for yet another apartment building with no character. Does no one care about this once beautiful suburb? Does no one care that all our history is going down the tube? All we see now are one after another of flats and other apartment buildings, bringing more and more people with more and more cars.
   The whole demographic will change in our area and what was once a family area will become one of business people and students.
   Six years ago we almost bought a lovely house right opposite this proposed new development in Belsize Ave, but lost out at auction. Thank God we did!

4. I was horrified to see this proposal. I notice that a lovely Edwardian house is to be knocked down for yet another apartment building with no character. Does no one care about this once beautiful suburb? Does no one care that all our history is going down the tube? All we see now are one after another of flats and other apartment buildings, bringing more and more people with more and more cars.
   The whole demographic will change in our area and what was once a family area will become one of business people and students.
   Six years ago we almost bought a lovely house right opposite this proposed new development in Belsize Ave, but lost out at auction. Thank God we did!

5. I dont understand how a building of 4 storeys with 29 dwellings is appropriate for a suburban street. How will this street cope with increased traffic being 8.1 metres wide and having some parking restrictions already in place and the new developement on the corner with Neerim Road not occupied yet. It is also already used as a rat run during peak hour for cars trying to dodge the lights at Neerim and Murrumbeena. How will the local area cope with the increase in the population that is being encouraged by these developments? Who will pay for the increased demand for local amenities and maintaince required? I would hope Glen Eira Council builds a very strong case to take to VCAT when this application gets there.

6. As well as the issues relating to traffic management, parking and aesthetics (beautiful house torn down and total deregulation of aesthetics of new propertied being built e.g. cnr Bellsize and Neerim)) I am deeply worried about the extreme extra pressure that these new developments place on water and sewerage infrastructure. Where a block may have housed 5 people it may now house over 60 or more - where is the extra infrastructure into drainage etc? Surely this constant development is not sustainable from a environmental point of view? Carnegie is being completely ruined by chaotic and deregulated development.

7. 4 storeys is inappropriate for this area. One of the reasons we chose Carnegie as our home is because it appeared to have a 2 or 3 storey limit. We just moved from Hawthorn where over time beautiful chartered filled buildings are being replaced by developments just like this one. Oversized for the area and the street and with no thought to how parking, amenities and traffic would adjust. This area is already struggling with these things; i wonder how much more it can take?

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