Lot 1019 Ribbonwood Road, Farmborough Heights NSW 2526

Terrible plan. A building like this should be in an open street with multi access points.
Ribbonwood Road, Farmborough Heights is a quiet one way in, one way out street. Having 69 units at the end of this street will cause nothing but traffic congestion, pollution, environmental sacrifice and frustration to the long term residents of the street.

This development is completely out of context with the rest of the area. I do not believe the R2 Zoning is intended to allow this kind of development at all.

There are not Roads, schools or shopping centres in the area which can cope with this sort of density.

Along with the dapto jail this is one of the worst development proposals i have seen in wollongong.
The streets in farmborough heights where never built to accommodate this amount of people it was never set out to be densely populated. The roads are narrow, there arnt many foot paths or walking areas around and with this influx of traffic and people it could be dangerous. Its bad enough with the busses going up panorama drive and up gerard avenue.
Keep the big city high rise in the big citys and leave farmborough the way it is.

Why would this application even be considered by Wollongong City Council. Our neighbourhood is extremely quiet and surrounded by bush and the green corridor up to the escarpment of Mt Kembla. The current view of this and the bushland surrounds would be totally impacted. The very narrow street that this development proposal is in is a cul-de-sac and also the surrounding streets would be subjected to both traffic chaos and noise, along with the destruction of the bushland environment and native animals and this is unacceptable. It would also increase water run off down the gully and into Charcoal Creek which in turn would increase the potential for flooding in our housing estate at River Oak. The social impacts including the scale of the development would be enormous.

TOTALLY WRONG for this area, it should be in the centre of Wollongong with all other developments of this design.

There is more than one application in this area being considered by council at present. The 3 stage, 12 dwelling DA 2017/928 at 220 Waples Rd, shares a common boundary with this 69 unit proposal and backs onto residents in Waples Rd and Ribbon wood Place.
The impact on residents and the local environment ( with one parcel zoned E2 conservation) if these two developments proceed, would be disastrous. Both developments only have a single passageway in and out of the development with a combined proposal of more than 600 additional traffic movements a day. Waples Rd, with its hills, blind spots and parked cars could not safely accommodate this enormous increase in traffic.
With the area being identified as traditional landslip, with ongoing storm water runoff issues and E2 conservation preservation orders, a decision to accept any DA in this area would show a very poor duty of care and consideration by council, to current residents and to the environment. There is also an additional parcel of land being sold at the end of the Waples Rd cul de sac and council should also take this into account when considering the future impact of potential development, in this area.

DA-2018/461:
My property (Ribbonwood Rd,) will share a boundary with this development. My deep concerns are:
EXTREME TRAFFIC CONGESTION: parking space both side of the road is needed for vehicles belonging to family & friends of the residents of Ribbonwood Rd. With traffic as it is this is not a problem. However, any traffic increase will cause extreme congestion, making it difficult for residents to commute from one end of the road to the other. Ribbonwood Rd is not built to take the substantial increase in traffic which this development would bring.
EROSION: if the established trees are removed from the boundary there is a real risk of threatening the bank causing landslide to my property.
INCREASED WATER RUN-OFF: Presently when it rains heavily a torrent flows down my drive, but most of the run-off flows down the road into proposed development site which could cause flooding.
POLLUTION, SAFETY: presently the end of this street is a safe place for children to play. This would change with the proposed development.
SOCIAL IMPACT: this will diminishes the quality of life for residents, including older citizens who are established in the area. Such disruption leads to other social problems (and public expense). The Council has a duty of care to this community

WILD LIFE THREAT: home to a variety of native birds and wild life.
The odd wallaby and wombat have been sited on my and nearby areas.

ENVIRONMENT: a small proportion of my Property is rainforest. When clearing lantana near this area I received a letter from the Council warning (a concerned resident had reported me) me that there was an up to $1,000,000 fine for any damage caused as this land is listed as environmentally protected. At the time I was impressed and happy that our council took interest in such things. This same small patch of remaining forest is shared by the proposed developers.

It is quite clear that the residents of this area will be impacted by the significant increase in traffic in a quiet street which was never designed for the traffic of this intensity this proposal will bring. With private car ownership the most likely mode of transportation for the residents , these high traffic movements would exceed the planned capacity of two spaces per dwelling. The excess cars (more than two) will result in obstacles for watse services and emergency services vehicles (including RFS, SES, fire brigade and police vehicles).

Social impacts resulting from this proposal, it wasn't a high density area when houses were purchased. Currently we are experiencing water run off problems with potential flooding in the whole area during heavy rainfall. The escarpment was always been part of this area and part of the Illawarra for a reason , not to be obscured by a high rise high density proposal.

This development proposal along with the other adjacent developement application being considered by council in this area of Farmbororough Heights does not agree with the character and nature of the surrounding built environment and does little to adequately address the existing rights of those neighbours, including the loss of amenity that would result if the proposal was approved.