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1. This proposal should be dismissed by the council as the height is excessive and not in keeping with the heritage streetscape and there are already 4 boarding houses on Fisher Street and the street should remain a mix of residential/business options rather than end up being all boarding houses to avoid anti-social behaviour.

   Will there be a car space in the basement for all rooms as there is currently no available on street parking.

   The area is also known for flooding so is a basement carpark permitted especially so close to the Masonic Hall without undermining the hall's foundations?

   The council rejected a similar application for 41 Fisher Street so it should do the same for this application.

2. This development proposal is destructive of the local streetscape, taking half of a row of Edwardian houses and placing an incompatibly large building on the street.

   The car parking proposed appears to be insufficient for the number of residents the boarding houses will accommodate, plus the vehicle traffic that the commercial premises will generate.

   I am also concerned at the concentration of boarding house accommodation in this location. There are currently more than two dozen licensed and unlicensed boarding houses within 500m of this site. The area does not have a demonstrated need for additional boarding house accommodation and both police and community support services are stretched by the demands of the current populations. In the absence of any commitment by the NSW government to improve services the local council should not approve any development that worsens local amenity and the situation of people in need of boarding house accommodation.

3. Council should dismiss this development application, along with the similar boarding boarding house development next this one at 41 Fisher St.

   These developments fail to preserve the extant intact historic character of the street that includes an excellent example of four similarly styled Edwardian houses, presumably by the same architectural firm. The matching aesthetics, including sandstone foundation, leadlight bay windows, and terracotta gabled roof are of high quality and make an important statement about the historic development of housing in the Petersham CBD.

   These 4 houses are part of a wider story that Fisher St tells about the historic development of Petersham which is evidenced by the various eclectic styles along the street, including Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco, and post-war dwellings.

   For this reason, I believe Council needs to consider important heritage protections for dwellings along Fisher St, both for their ability to demonstrate on a single street the major historic residential type changes, and for its important link connecting Petersham's civic centre on Shaw St to Petersham's commercial centre on Audley St/New Canterbury Rd.

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