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As a resident of Murray Crescent, I will be opposing in every ounce of my capacity to keep this the quiet "exclusive" street we all purchased here for!
What is happening???
48 Murray Cresent wanting to develop 6 townhouse now 50 Murray Crescebt too?!
So disappointing.....
Wow squeeze more houses on the block and reduce parking. Doesn't sound to good does it? How about build something more suitable like 4 instead of going for pure building profits while de valuing surrounding property's.
Most houses have min 2 cars if not more and we don't even have a train line in Rowville yet so building a development based on public transport expectations isn't realistic. Look at the mess on the other side of stud road now it takes people 30min just to get out of the estate in the mornings
Oh this is getting beyond a joke! This is destroying Rowville and for what we bought in the area for. This is way too many dwellings for this area and should be stopped now!
Well.....It's clearly obvious what may be happening here. Has the same developer purchased both No 50 & No 48? Sure looks like it. GO AWAY GREEDY DEVELOPERS, go make your money elsewhere. Murray Crescent residents DO NOT want multiple dwellings or high rises. A few days ago I took out of my letterbox a business card of a local real estate agent who wants me to call him in regards to my property. My bet is that he has a developer interested in buying my property so that they can do as they are planning to do at No 48 & No 50. NO WAY. This agent won't be hearing from me. I have lived here for almost 30 years and have enjoyed this quiet street with large, spacious, private blocks and it should be kept this way. NO MULTIPLE DWELLINGS or HIGH RISES for this street. KNOX COUNCIL, PLEASE LISTEN TO US AND DO NOT LET THESE DEVELOPMENTS OCCUR.
As of a resident of Murray Cres for over 10 years i was very disappointed to hear that there were developers coming in and building 12 town houses in the street. To add to the bad news number 30 has sold to developers and because of this news number 28 has also sold to the same developers too.
The reason i brought in this street over 10 years ago was for the quiet, beautiful area that i could raise a family in. To hear that Rowville is going to be over developed like Boronia is really sad and disappointing. I want our children to be able to play and walk around the area. If we allow developers in and turn the street into Townhouse city, this will create more noise and the amount of traffic will quad triple the area.
If number 48 goes ahead then 50 then 30 and 28 will be townhouses within 18-24 months and basically within 5 -10 years the whole side of the street will become townhouses and de value our street.
To place an objection in to the council fill out an application form, use the below link.
https://www.knox.vic.gov.au/Files/Planning/Form-ObjectionSubmissiontoaPlanningApplication.pdf
or type objection application in the search box at the top right of the knox council website.
If we all place an application form in and fight together to save our street being taken over by developers.
I STRONGLY OPPOSE the proposed developments of 48 & 50 Murray Crescent.
I paid an absolute premium last year to live on Murray Crescent for its large prestigious blocks and 'exclusive address' for my young growing family.
To say I'm deeply distressed with the news of this proposed development is an understatement.
To allow these absurd developments to go ahead in such a beautiful and unique street of Rowville would be grossly obtuse and a huge error in judgement.
Allowing such a proposal to go ahead sets a dangerous precedent and would be a blatant disregard for the collective voices of people who have come out in their droves to strongly disapprove of the idea.
If they are approved, it will increase congestion, traffic, noise, and disrupt the harmony that makes it this very unique street so appealing in the first place. We want our young children to grow up in a safe environment and a quiet family friendly neighbourhood. We don’t need overcrowding & more cars zooming up and down the street.
Next thing you know, there’ll be unit developments popping up everywhere – higher density and greater height properties in our neighbourhoods.
Our homes are our biggest investment. If you ask for community consultation, you need to LISTEN to the voice of the people.
You have a moral duty to allow common sense & good judgement to prevail.
We oppose the development/s on Murray Crescent, Rowville. The whole reason why we moved here was due to the exclusivity of the large blocks of land and the quiet and leafy streets. We want to keep this area the way it was originally formed. Whenever friends come to visit us they are always so surprised to find that Rowville has some streets with amazing sized blocks of land. These streets truly are hidden gems in suburbia. Therefore, we would not appreciate developers coming in and ruining our dream and I'm sure the dreams of our neighbours living here.
You must all stand strong and stand together! Your voice will help the collective voice of Rowville. The developments proposed are ridiculous in such a lovely outer suburb! There are smaller blocks getting the same treatment - it's greed and it must be stopped! Knox city council need to listen and stop approving such atrocities in our area!
We oppose the development of this property and see that it's a contradiction of the Knox housing strategy. This will not enhance or maintain the area.
It’s not in an activity centre, not well-serviced by public transport, it is almost on a T-intersection and it’s definitely not in the intent or in spirit of the area.
It will destroy the green, leafy image and character of the street.
It will increase traffic congestion and potentially be a traffic hazard in this location.
I strongly oppose the development of Murray crescent for the below listed reasons. As a Murray crescent resident on a half acre lot.
I regularly have protected wildlife birds in my backyard such as gang gang
Black cockatoos, Sulfur crested cockatoos, galas, long billed corella, king parrots, rosellas, magpies, kookaburra just to name a few, these birds all live and breed locally to me, enjoying the open land blocks, as this is there last undeveloped area in this location
And I fear that the development will scare and force them out forever
Secondly traffic in Murray crescent is very congested as it is with cars parked on both sides of the road at times, and this will only get worse with up to 24 new dwellings planning for this street especially due to the fact that Murray crescent is a curved street with blind spots around the bends and two dangerous intersections from Cardinia cres joining it. Almost every time I drive down the street I have near misses with oncoming vehicles as we cannot see each other coming round the bends with all the parked vehicles on the side of the road.
I also am concerned that the area cannot sustain the new planned houses as they will place extra strain on the electricity and water drainage required for this area, as we have regular power outages on hot day when everyone has the air conditioning on, and during heavy rainfall the streets drainage cannot cope with the water as you can clearly see water bubbling up from the drainage pipes instead of running away, development of the lands surrounding will make these problems worse.
I strongly oppose the development of Murray crescent for the below listed reasons. As a Murray crescent resident on a half acre lot.
I regularly have protected wildlife birds in my backyard such as gang gang
Black cockatoos, Sulfur crested cockatoos, galas, long billed corella, king parrots, rosellas, magpies, kookaburra just to name a few, these birds all live and breed locally to me, enjoying the open land blocks, as this is there last undeveloped area in this location
And I fear that the development will scare and force them out forever
Secondly traffic in Murray crescent is very congested as it is with cars parked on both sides of the road at times, and this will only get worse with up to 24 new dwellings planning for this street especially due to the fact that Murray crescent is a curved street with blind spots around the bends and two dangerous intersections from Cardinia cres joining it. Almost every time I drive down the street I have near misses with oncoming vehicles as we cannot see each other coming round the bends with all the parked vehicles on the side of the road.
I also am concerned that the area cannot sustain the new planned houses as they will place extra strain on the electricity and water drainage required for this area, as we have regular power outages on hot day when everyone has the air conditioning on, and during heavy rainfall the streets drainage cannot cope with the water as you can clearly see water bubbling up from the drainage pipes instead of running away, development of the lands surrounding will make these problems worse.
I am a resident living behind Murray crescent on Norris Road.
This is an absolute OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't even live in this street and it will affect me and all of my neighbours. People invest so much money to live in beautiful and exclusive areas and don't want to be bombarded by high density housing
We love our acre and waited years and years to get here. We didn't pay an absolute fortune so that we could lose our mountain views and to look at rooftops. The thought of having so many people living behind us is insane.
Not sure the logic (apart from profit) behind building so many units. This high density housing for the residents of Murray Crescent is going to make driving in and out of this small road absolutely hard.
Developments like this should definitely not be built in this capacity in this area.
I actually don't oppose this development. I think that it is great that there will be more houses in the area, enabling more people to buy without adding to the urban sprawl. When you look at the bigger picture, you realise that Melbourne as a whole is expanding at an extraordinarily fast pace causing congestion on major thoroughfares like Wellington Road and the Monash freeway. As for the people opposing this because they like their street, well, I can agree with you on that point but what you can’t dictate is the amount of cars that should or shouldn’t be parked on the street. You only have to visit streets like Lade court in Rowville to realise that the parking is an issue when there are 20 houses with 20 parking bays and half of the houses have 2+ cars. And they are all just single houses on 1 block each. You can never estimate how many cars families will have at any one point in time. That’s just 1 example. No one is subdividing someone else’s house so people that don’t subdivide, aren’t affected. Your house will actual increase in value over time as your ‘big’ blocked house will be a premium and even less of them in the street. Subdivision will always exist and will get more and more as the demand grows. The demand will grow as that is the only way some families can afford to buy property into the future. Try living in Edithvale where developers have moved in to the area and are dividing any block above 600sqm, where they can. Then you realise you have to put up with it. Murray cres will still be a leafy street, no one will ever take that away. Just with a few more cars. As long as the new development is not a dble storey looking into someone else’s house, then whats the matter? Just my opinion. It’s not cheap to subdivide; surely the decision is not taken lightly by the owners?
Murray crescent resident Wyatt Walker
Can Rowville sustain and accommodate all all the new dwellings, not just talking about Murray crescent, but the whole of Rowville.
10 years ago I could drive to Stud park shopping centre or Wellington village and get a car park easily any time of the day or night, this is very important to me as I have a disability parking permit, and need to park close to the entrance, and usually all the disabled parking are full.
However over the last few years parking and traffic congestion around the shopping centres has gotten very bad and keeps getting worse. I now find it almost impossible to get a suitable parking at certain times of the day, and have to avoid going to the shops at certain times of the day altogether.
This coincides with all the new developments around where 15 or 20 or even 40 or more people are now living on the same size surrounding land where previously just 1 family lived.
I feel over development leads to crowded shops, road traffic congestion which in turn changes people making then more rushed and irritated, moody and in turn being impatient, rude, and unfriendly to each other when out in public. We are loosing our local friendly peaceful tranquil outer suburban feeling due to overdevelopment.
I think before these new housing developments go ahead and get approved the council and planning ministers need to prepare the suburb of Rowville by expanding the shopping centres and car parks, public transport and surrounding roads. And only once this is done successfully then consider allowing the extra housing developments to go forward
As all Rowville residents need to be considered, the elderly, children, and families, in these important decisions which affect our long term future
Just so people know Rowville is about to get 3 new estates so there is plenty of land for the growing population. These are going to be more high density so if people don't mind living there the can and know what they are buying. Why change a well established street so drastically there is no need for it.
Rowville citizen if you read the planning it is 4x 2 storey and 2x single
