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1. As a visitor to the area where my daughter and her husband now live I feel this development is another over-development of a residential area. The height is unnecessary and Council should keep these developments to 5 levels so that everyone can enjoy the area and not become developer driven. Once again there will be not enough car parking for the units and the local streets will become difficult for residents to park. Please consider smaller developments. Thank you.

2. If this development is allowed to go ahead it will add a significant number of people and cars to an already heavily developed couple of blocks in North Dulwich Hill. In the past year or so, taking into account completed developments and those under way (68 apartments at The Cooperage, 462 New Canterbury Rd; 249 apartments at Grove St; 70 apartments at the GPO complex on corner of Lewisham St and New Canterbury Rd) combined with another proposed development on Constitution Rd of 15 dwellings), 473 apartments have been added to this very small area bounded by New Canterbury Rd, Constitution Rd, Grove St and Hill St and Lewisham St. Parking is already at a premium on these streets because few people have off-street parking. Public transport is already at capacity. The trams are nearly full by the time they get to the nearest Light Rail stop, Arlington, by 8am in the morning - and that is just the third stop from the beginning of the line at Dulwich Hill! The heavy rail at Lewisham is also running at capacity - you can't get a seat on the train in morning peak hour. Denison Rd is a rat run, full of parents taking their sons to the Christian Bros school further down Denison Rd, and used as an alternative to New Canterbury Rd for drivers going to the city and using the City West Link. I am not exaggerating when I say it is difficult to cross the road during peak hour and there are no lights or pedestrian crossings at this end of the road. On top of that, we have the massive congestion represented by the huge developments down at Lewisham. Please don't let this development go ahead without devising and imposing some major restrictions on traffic, such as lights, pedestrian crossings or major road calming structures.
   Thank you

3. In addition in Wendy Frew's note on the number of developments in the area, there are also the Meriton Luna apartments, Lux apartments and apartments at 120 Old Canterbury Rd in Lewisham and recently approved developments for Constitution Rd. This DA cannot be considered in isolation but must take into consideration all the surrounding developments and the impact on the local services and infrastructure.

   Current infrastructure cannot support the massive influx of new residents. Will the planning commitee put in place additional support or improve the infrastructure for current residents. How will the local child care centres cope when already there are two to three year waiting lists? The schools will have to increase their classroom numbers. Millions was spent on astroturf for Arlington Oval but that can only be used by soccer players and is locked at all other times; where will all these families fit when they want to take their children to the park? Johnson Park is already crowded and Arlington Grove isn’t even built yet. Before yet another DA can even be considered, plans must be put forward services and infrastructure to support the influx of additional residents.

   All recent DAs, including this one, are taller than existing apartments (the flour mill is an exception as they were built over 100 years ago!). The Denison apartments on the corner of Denison Rd and Constitution Rd Dulwich Hill should be the benchmark - low rise, blends into the environment, not obtrusive or offensive. Dulwich Hill is known for its Victorian and Federation elegance, which residents love and attracts people to the area.

   Please re-consider the DA and put the community first, not the developer.

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