4 Rippon Avenue Dundas NSW 2117

Very concerned about if this premises will be a halfway house for paroled prisoners as we have a number of children and students in this street.
Also very concerned that there are only 3 car parks and if there are 2 in the garage then they will most likely not be accessible due to storage. The premises is at a deadend with very limited parking especially when classes at the nearby university. Our street does not have capacity to deal with more cars and a dwelling of this size is not appropriate.

Rippon and Anderson Av are full to capacity with traffic flow in both directions and the streets are very narrow in width. The development dose not provide sufficient off street parking and we are not sure if one room will house 1 person ( the rooms can have double bunkers). We also note that the plans do not include how the garbage bins are stored. Are there going to be 15x2 garbage bins parked on the kerb every Tuesday night? There is no sewer diagram. Has the sewer plans been submitted and approved.My final comment and from past history boarding houses eventually will house people with problem and or convert to local prostitution and this will socially effect the local community.

Or this the is the intent of the boarding house designed for the Uni across the road for short and long stay students on a visa? who gets to make the decision of what type of people will be joining our friendly little community.

Did you guys care to comment on boarding house on forsyth pl.

Currently this area is jam packed, struggling for parking, especially in front of 1,2,3,4 and 5 Rippon Ave, no proper turn around space, vehicles are using private driveway to turn around..
This development is going to open up lots of parking issues, effect on community peace etc.
Boarding houses means, lots of tenant turn arounds, compromise in choosing right tenants which will indirectly effect on local community.
With R2 zoning in this area, how owner is going to provide parking to all 15 tenants?
15 rooms means, they may be allowing to live in more than one person per room.

I do not think it's a good idea to give permission for boarding houses in this residential area until zoning is changed.

Re: DA/113/2018. The concerns we have for the construction of a 15 room boarding house include and go beyond the points raised above, and are as follows -
1. A concentration of individuals with behavioural problems is of concern. As one of many examples - if any are drug users, then we fear the underpass to Rydalmere station may be a (drug) shooting gallery and make night time foot traffic in that area unsafe for other residents.
2. Rippon and Anderson Avenue is definately a low density housing area. Parking is a problem and accidents and incidents of parking over driveways have and will increase.
3. I have question to you. Is No. 4 Rippon Ave a housing commission home? Not that I am against housing commission residents. We know a few households in our avenue and they are all wonderful and respectable families. Our concern is I don't want their homes demolished and replaced by 15 room boarding houses, which will further exacerbate points 1 and 2 above.

As a solution we are well aware of the 2,445 to 6,000 residential development planned to be undertaken in the former Macquarie Boys and Rydalmere Psychiatric site surrounded by James Ruse Drive and Kissing Point & Victoria Roads. My suggestion is that these boarding house residents could be easily blended into the community of high rise accomodation being planned for that site, and no approval be given to any Boarding houses in Rippon or Anderson Avenues.

Really 15 rooms? 15 people ? I don't thing so! More like 4 in each room that could mean 60 people. How do bins look after that many people? At a dead end street with no turn around? When I walk to the end of my street
to get the bus to Parramatta or go West Ryde the bus is full so what happens when we put 30 other people there to get on same bus that where not there before!

It is already so bad buses pass by because they are full!

Council has a lot to answer for.

I agree that this DA is extremely problematic due to all of the reasons listed above and then some. However I’m concerned that Parramatta Council will not take comments listed here seriously as (no offence to Planning Alerts, you are performing an excellent service to the community), according to their website, submissions must be directly addressed to:

“the City of Parramatta by post or email. You must include your full name, phone number and address, the relevant Development Application (DA) number and the site address."

Also of note: "Petitions may also be used for submissions provided they contain the same details mentioned above."

Submissions end on the 21st of March (This Wednesday!)

I am writing to council to express my objection to a proposal to build a boarding house at 4 Rippon Avenue Dumdas. For the reasons stated below:

1.Parking in the street is already congested due to the university of Western Sydney nearby. Both sides of the street packed with cars with no room to safely back out of your driveway. A 15 room boarding house, will result in 15 cars then extras on weekends with visitors is a joke.

2. Affordable housing is not a reason to build this dwelling in our little community. There is already student accommodation on the university grounds. In addition affordable housing will be a part of the old Macquarie Boys High site proposal where it will be more suitable and ample space.

3. How can it be guaranteed what type of people will rent this accommodation. In particular of concern is ex-prisoners. This worries me sick with a lot of young families and the elderly in Rippon and Anderson Avenues.

I hope you can see that our little community area is something to be kept as it is. As there is so much development going on around us.

As a resident of Rippon Avenue, Dundas I strongly object to this housing proposal due to the following reasons:

1. I don’t think this is the right place for it.

2. It will be nothing more than a glorified motel and I fear its residents would only live there short-term.

3. Rippon Avenue, specially this end of it, is already packed with cars parked by the students of University of Western Sydney, who not only park wrongly, but also leave rubbish behind.

4. We are also concerned about probable issues like loss of privacy, excessive traffic and noise, swearing, smoking and drinking, litter, public safety.

5. Residents of boarding house might be coming from jail, rehabilitation facilities, or suffering homelessness, which could put the security of the neighbourhood at risk.

6. Parking, water, sewage etc was made for a certain number of dwellings. Demolishing single houses to put in multiple units just strains the existing facilities to breaking point.

I am requesting Parramatta Council to amend this Planning Alert page by adding a formal notice on this site under 'Have your say on this application'.
This will advise people that their comments will not be used as a formal submission to oppose an application and then refer them to another site to do this. I believe this site is misleading the local community into thinking that their views here can be used for appeal/opposing an application.

#4 Rippon avenue is owned by someone in the public who is quite obviously on in it for a money grab and not to help those wanting affordable housing.
1. Apparently the council commented in a report, on the ugly cheap tapware likening it to something from a gaol. Therefore if the rest of the fittings and internal furnishings are of this standard, do you really think people who take pride in their residence are really going to want to live there? NO! How much are they proposing to charge per unit for weekly rent? Do we residents get to see the internal plans and fittings so we can see who the demographic of tenant will be?
2. What was the final outcome to the noise report that was done? This was difficult to read and seemed to indicate that the boarding house may be over the noise level allowed?
3. The plans show a one car garage and two car spaces on the driveway in front of the garage. At 0.2 car spaces this equates to 3 car spaces required at the minimum for 15 units. Unfortunately the owner and council have not taken into consideration that they actually only have available 2 car spaces on that block, as no one can park on the driveway behind the garage because it will block in one of the tenants (this is not like a family home where you can ask your dad to move his car to get out). So where are they going to come up with the third car space? Also that third car space must be extra wide to accommodate disabled parking as they cannot discriminate and must accommodate the disabled that they have provided units for them on the ground floor.
4. Did you know the owner gets up to $50,000. in assistance to install fire prevention materials/items in the boarding house and gets free land tax exemptions.
5. The owner doesn't have to have a manager on site to police the tenants. If there are major issues with a tenant, they can't get kicked out immediately. They have the right to a tribunal hearing which could take ? months and they will get a warning. Then if it happens again, another warning. The third time, they have to be found a place that THEY will agree to move to. Police cannot kick them out either so who will protect the residents??? Has the council ever used their right to get the BHA to gain access to a boarding house for inspection? Considering the majority of us own our homes here, what are our rights to keep our village atmosphere safe and friendly. All we hear about is the rights of the underprivileged ex-cons, drug addicts, mentally disturbed. Yes, they deserve affordable housing, but in built up areas and not in R2 zoning. R2 is zoned for residential should be off limits altogether for boarding houses as they do not fit into our landscape and family ideals and there are more than enough built up areas surrounding us that would better suit.
6. The minimum quantity of bins for the boarding house will be 5 garbage, 5 green waste and 5 recycling. That means at minimum, an extra 10 bins weekly in that little area. Where are they going to put them? On their neighbours areas?
7. Even though the plans state 15 rooms, apparently they can end up putting in up to 19 rooms without an onsite manager, so will there be a possibility that this can be changed at the last minute?
8. Our wonderful neighbours/friends/adopted families have been fighting for decades to ensure our village (Anderson and Rippon Avenues) is kept at an R2 zoning. The council tried to slip a rezoning change in many years ago but we found out, rallied against it and won and this was only possible because we all worked together. They have attempted to change our suburb name, but again we all spoke up to keep our village name as Dundas. We have a pot of gold here as this is OUR sacred landsite and again we are fighting to protect it.
No one here can afford to sit back and 'hope' that others will do the work for them. It will take 'our village' to make a change and that means all of us.