3 Berwick Street, Coogee NSW 2034

Description
Amended plans showing changes to the footprint including increased rear setbacks, reduction of the overall building height, changes to the window and door openings on elevations, floor space ratio, external materials, and landscaping. Original Proposal: Torrens Title subdivision of the site into two (2) allotments and construction of two (2) semi-detached dwellings, one on each allotment.
Planning Authority
Randwick City Council
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Reference number
DA/432/2022
Date sourced
We found this application on the planning authority's website on , over 2 years ago. It was received by them earlier.
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Council squashed the proposed development on 3 and 5 Berwick Street earlier this year. I thought the area was protected under the council's Heritage conservation plan, like the Edgecombe Estate.

There is no signage on the building advising of any proposed development.

This development is out of character with the area. Berwick Street cannot cope with any more car traffic.

Please refuse this application. I am a third generation Coogee resident. We are losing too many of our historic buildings to greedy developers.

Thank you

Lesley Taylor
Delivered to Randwick City Council

I strongly object to the planned development . This is due to the remarkable heritage features and distinct heritage characteristics of No 3 Berwick St and its position in a row of historic buildings.

Berwick Street clearly offers several worthy inter-war heritage houses for consideration, two of which are currently listed on the Coogee Federation Heritage walk website. Local residents have previously objected to DAs in 2019 and 2020.19-21 Berwick Street are currently listed on the Coogee Federation Heritage walk website.

Nos 1, 3, 5 Berwick Street (which are of the same period) should be heritage listed not only for their individual worth but for the cohesive nature and uniformity of this rare group of heritage houses in Coogee.

These buildings are unique in that they form a row of three with 1 Berwick St in a street which has had so much heritage destroyed. If Number 3 is demolished it will destroy the cohesive part of the streetscape at that end of the street.

These Berwick Street homes are an integral part of the historic streetscape aesthetic and offer some truly distinctive insights into our history. They are a rare example of the inter-war period with intact fences from the same period and part of our fast disappearing history.

Therefore, they need preserving for future generations similar to the Edgecumbe Estate currently being considered.

The ongoing eradication of homes that are of ‘modest’ heritage importance according to developer paid assessments undermines and diminishes the beauty and historic essence of our suburb.

Randwick City Council under its LEP has a duty of care to the community and is obliged 'to ensure the conservation of the environmental heritage, aesthetic and costal character of Randwick’ and is bound to the Burra Charter, that provides the standard guidelines for heritage conservation in Australia.

Randwick Council has erred in not doing a timely heritage assessment of these buildings in 2019.

In general, developers are not local residents but are usually from well outside the area and make money from destruction of our historic buildings. Why is council ignoring local residents and allowing this to happen?

T. Craven
Delivered to Randwick City Council

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