9-11 Lexington Place Maroubra NSW 2035

I have heard this will be a boarding house for ex - criminals... is this true

Cafe is such a great idea, however I hope boarding house won’t be approved. It certainly won’t help to improve this area, instead will bring more instability and crime onto the streets.

This is a crazy DA idea for this site and everything about it is wrong. Lexington Place has been riddled with crime, social unrest and social disadvantage for years. Immediate and near neighbours to Lexington Place have suffered as a result, largely through higher rates of violence and crime. Residents of Lexington Place and surrounding area deserve better, this proposal will only make matters worse. Develop to improve, don’t “develop” to make it worse. Council should do more to lift this area, not make it worse. This part of Maroubra and it’s law abiding residents have been ignored for far too long.

As a nearby public housing resident I find the scale and size of the proposed development to be out of step with community expectations.

We’ve been sold the line by many local, state and federal politicians that it’s their intention to create greater diversity for disadvantage, troubled areas like Lexington Place. But approving this DA will only place greater pressure to our fragile community. We already have more than our fair share of lower economic background residents, we already have more than our fair share of criminal activity and lawless behaviour ... so i think enough is now enough. It’s time Council try and help current residents and nearby local maroubra residents by introducing, supporting a greater mix of residents and not to create greater and larger ghettos where crime, violence and anti social behaviour can continue to flourish. Approving this DA will be akin to adding fuel to the fire. We need more affordable housing, not more affordable ghetto housing. We need a greater mix of residents for me, and my daughter, to aspire and be inspired. Maroubra Beach is only a stone throw away, surely council can do more to lift the area?

Have to agree with the concerns relating to increased crime, and issues associated with building larger ghettos of “affordable housing”. Packing humans in a relatively small space, and from disadvantaged, lower social economic backgrounds has been proven to deliver only pain and misery. Lexington Place needs help, it doesn’t need developers to add to our already long list of community social problems. This DA needs to be rejected as it’s just a slap in the face to the local community and their interests. And promoting a “cafe” as reason for its approval just insults our intelligence. We may not be uni educated but we know what “distractions” look and smell like.

More needs to be done by Randwick Council to improve Lexington Place for local residents. I'm not sure that the proposed development is the way to go.

This DA is too scary, too stressing to contemplate.

Karen said it best:- “Packing humans in a relatively small space, and from disadvantaged, lower social economic backgrounds has been proven to deliver only pain and misery.”

I hope common sense shines through and developers are forced to change their plans. Dumping a Boarding House in the middle of Lexington Place, we are just piling on community problems on top of community problems. We can do better than this, residents deserve better. Boarding House must be rejected, cafe can stay.

Randwick Council needs to help local residents, not disadvantage them by approving such developments. Need greater diversity in housing supply and greater diversity in residents, not building more cheap ghetto accomodation and knowing the issues it brings to local law abiding citizens, esp in an area that is already feeling greater community strain. Where are our local and fed politicians? Why don’t they pay us a visit, experience what it’s like?

I agree with the comments above this DA needs to be rejected.

Lexington Place needs to be converted into a lively place for all residents to enjoy rather than further disadvantaging them.
I would advise anyone overseeing this approval to visit Lexington Place and take a look themselves.
We would happily support developments which improve the area but fail to see how this particular development will, as it will only add to the problems in the area.

Residents may like to attend the next Maroubra Beach Precinct meeting to air their views. It will be held Mon 26th Feb at Maroubra Life Saving club 7:30pm.

Take a look at the artist impression of the development - its a very well designed property which will offer high quality accommodation - its not going to be your flea invested boarding house. Also take a look at the existing streetscape - any development is an improvement. Also my guess is that most of the boarding house rooms will be rented to out to decent people and not crimnals as mentioned in above comments

I don’t think aesthetics has anything to do with the objections raised here.

They may as well plonk a miniature sydney opera house at Lexington but if they’re going to stack the place with humans and then it’s not such a good idea, particularly given the historic and present social issues facing the immediate area. Residents deserve better, been taking advantage for far too long, Council and local fed and state ministers have been missing in action. Disgraceful.

Local residents who live in or near that area will understand this. Only need to engage local police to understand issues they and law abiding residents have put up with over the yrs. This proposal does nothing but makes a bad situation even worse.

John & Liz

Have to agree with David. Lexington Pl / Sth Maroubra already have more than it’s fair share of lower economic background residents. If we’re to improve the area then council should be creating a greater mix of residents, housing and commercial offerings. More affordable housing and not more affordable ghetto housing. Any time you provide cheap housing then you attract, by and large, less than desirable residents. It’s just a statement of fact. It’s not about the design of the proposed DA, it’s more about the substance....

Agree with the general objections here, and here’s 2 key reasons why.
1. The DA proposes to house approx 30 lodges over 2 floors and on approximately 450sqm of land? This is ghetto housing. End of story.
2. The developers claim the proposed development will be in line with the profile of local surrounding buildings and character etc. I agree with the developers on this point, which is why it has to be rejected. As a resident of Sth Maroubra, we don’t want more of the same because more of the same has delivered what we have today ie high crime rates, higher concentration of socially and economic disadvantaged residents.

What we need is innovative ideas, we need greater mix of residential and commercial dwellings and we need greater mix of residents. We don’t need more students, more down and outs, and more socially irresponsible residents. Let’s move away from the ghetto that it is today. Let’s see more families, people with stable jobs who are great citizens and members of the community.

Let’s wake up, speak up and speak the truth. As I said before, we may not be uni educated but we are not idiots.