Winston Hills Shopping Centre, 180-192 Caroline Chisholm Drive, Winston Hills NSW 2153

I strongly oppose this application. The application maybe a reduction in units, but there will be more people living there with the increase in the number of bedrooms per unit. Additionally, there had been no improvement to the surrounding infrastructure to cope with all these people moving above the shops. No additional parking with the application either, nor any improvements to waste management facilities. Evidently the target market are families. Local Schools are at capacity as are daycare centres.

I don't want this amendment to go ahead as it will increase the number of residents and there is no plan for any increase infrastructure either in the shopping centre or in the surrounding area. As it is there is so much traffic now in the Suburb at peak hours.

I think it is a joke that the applicant can keep on changing it's mind about how many units they are going to put on top of our Shopping Centre.
They had to research away from Winston Hills to know how much to charge per unit as to quote a statement from TGC Residential

"When we originally priced the apartments at The Langdon we had to look to surrounding suburbs for comparable projects / apartments given Winston Hills as a suburb does not have any units."

I THINK THAT STATEMENT SAYS IT ALL THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY APARTMENTS IN WINSTON HILLS

I've been opposed to this development from the beginning. The feasibility study was dodgy in relation to the additional traffic. Test were undertaken and the least busiest times. You want to add 79 apts plus the cars that go with that to this area of Winston Hills with no additional infrastructure to allow for the additional cars on the road here. Exiting and entering their residences. The public can barely manage exiting the Big W end of the car park. This is not a high density area. This is not in flavour of the suburb or surrounds. There is a reason this suburb has no "high rise" and we the residents would like to keep it that way.

I have reviewed the s96 changes proposed and they are planning to combine some 1 and 2 bedroom units to instead have more 2 and 3 bedroom units. Parking number stays the same (125), but that is because they would have to make drastic changes to the plans to reduce parking space and use it to increase larger units.

I agree with Robyn's comments. I also agree that with more larger apartments there will be families buying them, instead of young couples/singles for 1 bedroom. While singles/young couples tend to not have a car, families generally have more than 1 car, so the builder is not doing any favour to the Winston Hills community by keeping the car parking to 125.

These changes prove that the approval of this Proposal was a wrong decision in the first place, this suburb is not suited to Units.

I just hope that the "Cooling Apartment Market" fever catches with it sooner rather than later!!!

An increase in multi bedroom units = more people = more cars.
Originally over 190 car parking spaces was specified (Joint Regional Planning Panel 23/8/15 page 20). The Hills DCP requirement for this size project specifies 156 car spaces. The developer has used another scale (RMS) which has reduced the number to 125.
Any resident or visitor overflow would have to be taken up by the shopping centre car park and adjacent streets. Junction Road is already full of cars parked by M2 bus commuters.

The latest modifications were made in response to an extreme lack of demand for 1 bedroom apartments (only 8 of 35 sold) and indicates the lack of research that has been undertaken into the Winston Hills area for this project.
This is another revision by the developer and indicates poor and inadequate planning. Once the building is complete the developer walks away and the community is left with the problems generated. Can we expect any further revisions?

Two councils and the local residents have unanimously rejected this development (472 submissions and 3 petitions).
The application by the developer for modification contained the statement;
(e) the public interest.
“……it is my opinion that the proposal is in the public interest.”
This development is not in the interest of the community.

This is totally out of character and inappropriate in Winston Hills which does not have any units. Winston Hills is a 3 and 4 bedroom ¼ acre block community. Residents do not want denigration into a slum area.

This development should not proceed because once built it will be used as a precedent and comparison for more unit blocks in our area.
One can only hope the council will closely monitor this project during construction to ensure strict compliance with approvals and in the quality of materials and workmanship.

I have often stood outside Big W as well as inside the store and felt vibration of the floor.I do wonder how safe the building will be with much added weight on it.
Certainly would not like to see any collapse of structure in the shopping centre.
The safety aspect alone could be an issue - certainly this is another aspect of the building application which will not sit well in the area.Parking and other issues really should be attended to and resolved,as the area could not tolerate excessive traffic.

I don't want this amendment to go ahead as it will increase the number of residents and there is no plan for any increase infrastructure either in the shopping centre or in the surrounding area. As it is there is so much traffic now in the Suburb at peak hours.