33-35 Huntingtower Road, Armadale VIC 3143

The Stonnington City Council has recently issued us with intent to place a heritage overlay on our property at 17 Huntingtower Rd. I see no difference in the quality of the house at 33 Huntingtower Rd to our house at 17. I am appalled that you would let a block of apartments go up in a residential street that already caters for a school. Parking will be a nightmare, not to mention the change in the landscape from a beautiful home to another apartment block.
Shame on you council.

A great pity. Is Victoria still the Garden State? No. Huntingfield Rd-so elegant and green in the past -is becoming just another overbuilt street, with huge concrete underground domains that are not good for the environment and fail to serve the object of increased population density. Mammoth spaces are usually occupied by only two, three or four people. There should be many more preserved homes in Toorak and elsewhere, following the lead of Hawthorn for architecture of an earlier period. Lovely Hawthorn-blighted, garish, common Toorak.

In a classic Armadale residential street such as Huntingtower Road, it is inappropriate to allow a development higher than 2 storeys, without a decent setback from the street and certainly without adequate car parking on site. The current generation has a responsibility to future generations to safeguard the streetscapes and liveability of our residential streets. After all, we only get one shot at it: allow inappropriate development and it is there to stay. I urge the Council to give careful thought to what sort and amount of development is acceptable to the local community as Melbourne experiences its current surge in growth, and to the problems associated with retaining the beauty of our streets.