All recent comments on applications from Canterbury-Bankstown Council, NSW

Hi,

Has this been approved? Will there be a child care center opening at 16 rowe drive potts hill?

Thanks

This childcare should immediately be approved. It is situated in such a nice place where lot of families live. I know, many parents are waiting for this childcare to be operating. Specially, lot of kids who live around this place go to Yagoona public school, their parent will be relieved if this childcare is approved to operate. It will also be an opportunity for workforce. Parents who don't drive car need to walk far to drop their kids to school and childcare. Please approve this childcare asap if they can submit all required documents.

All I can say is McDonald much smarter, they made application 6 months ago and the building already completed and operational on Hume Hwy Bankstown 2200
What is Coles waiting for. they have the money what is the hesitation? The cheese factory closed down & moved. Coles already made application & approved by council
Now I heard they going to open at IGA who is closing down at Centro Bankstown
I don't understand what they are waiting for. I heard some workers making some noise demolition. Now completely stopped.
Can someone give an update.
J B

The land size is way too small to have two duplexes on it. They have been rejected in the past due to this reason I don’t know how they are getting away with it now.

My understanding is that the purpose of this forum is to provide opportunity for comments on the development and that is to be done in a manner that is polite. I am concerned that some people who are in fact anonmymous, are using it for political purposes, seemingly to cast negative commentary on named individuals who actually live in the area. To me, that is not in accord with the intent or guidelines of this forum.

This building is going to block natural and sunlight into my apartment

This block is too narrow for the proposed development. It’s impact on neighbouring properties (overshadowing, noise) will be significant. This would not be out of place in Canterbury sadly. High density housing and unit blocks are one thing on appropriately sized blocks - this is not one of them.

I thought this was a tool to comment on proposed developments - not a forum to rant against other members of the community.

Lots of Baby Boomers / Gen Xers who bought their freestanding house for $500k now commenting that approving a 3 storey apartment housing in Sydney next to a Metro Station is for "developer greed".

The sheer irony, ignorance and stupidity of this statement is had to fathom. Any mildly educated person would tell you that the law of supply and demand suggests when u have low supply and high demand - prices go up.

Thats what we are seeing in Sydney today - low demand due to border closures and 0 net migration, yet a huge lack of supply and low interest rates are pushing prices through the roof. The supply shortfall as proven numerous times by the RBA and others is due to NIMBYs.

The net result of these disastrous policies is outrageously rising house prices, rental stress and homelessness for those on low incomes.

When Boomers/Gen Xers and their political lackeys in the Greens, Liberal & Labour parties (like Ms Healy), spout off on new housing developments as "greed" really they are projecting their own greed - and desire to inflate the price of property owners, at the expense of basic societal fairness and egalitarianism.

Enough is enough. If you want peace and quiet, move to the countryside and cash up the equity u have made. You dont have a right to deny others housing choices

In recent years the population of Hurlstone Park has declined in number and has also aged significantly, in stark contrast to neighbouring and nearby suburbs. At the same time, as a result of the heritage review conducted a few years back, it now has 76 heritage listed sites, more than most nearby suburbs. Most of the listed buildings are utterly generic, listed as examples of domestic styles still commonly found throughout the Inner West. .

As a result Hurlstone Park has gained a reputation both locally and internationally as a suburb notable for the use of heritage arguments and listings to thwart any development likely to attract a younger, less affluent and more diverse population. The arguments made against this development only enhance that unfortunate reputation.

Excuse me, did someone call Hurlstone Park “derelict”? Have you been to Duntroon St lately? There is no part of Hurlstone Park that is “dereliect” but the Council is doing its best to ensure that there will be, given what’s been approved along Canterbury Rd and now Duntroon and Floss. These buildings are our future slums.

I would agree with Marie Healy - the "boarding house" development on Dunstaffenage St, currently renting studios for $330 per week is out of reach of any single person on Jobseeker - currently paying about $620.

Boarding houses in principle are meant to cater for lower socio economic though any developer is not bound to providing this. The current DAs for boarding houses are simply easy ways for greedy developers to build poorly designed easy and quick buildings that are not monitored or rent controlled. Unless it is bound to the department of housing and social welfare groups these are shocking non secure poorly built and poorly managed profit centres.

Charles Pickett,
Your are wrong. This development, and community opposition to it, has not been about poor people but poor planning.
1. While a small minority of people, especially some who live close by, have displayed an unfortunate attitude towards what trouble "boarding houses" might bring to a suburb, the vast majority of objections were based on issues with design, scale and effects on local character and heritage considerations. The heritage protections in the suburb have been hard won and developers and the state government have fought hard to diminish them at every turn. The desire to preserve the heritage flavour of a suburb should not be conflated with the desire to keep poor people out. The community also rallied to conserve the heritage-listed main platform building at the railway station - this was not about stopping poor people using it. The Hurlstone Park community is interested in their suburb, its built form, their parks, the river and their community.
2. It's important to understand the context of this site - the purchase and demolition of 2 heritage-contributory homes just after the heritage assessment study of the suburb was endorsed by council, and the links to councilors later found to be corrupt by ICAC .This approval represents a win of greed at the expense of community; it is not a win for poor people over the NIMBY set.
3.The NSW State Government's affordable housing strategies, including these "new generation boarding houses" have not resulted in more affordable housing. Indeed, a study in 2018 by UNSW City Futures Research Centre found these policies were failing, especially in the Canterbury Bankstown area. The newly-erected small boarding house in Dunstaffenage Street was approved in the basis of the Affordable Housing SEPP, yet a IBR studio space there is on offer for $330/week which is about the same as any 1 bedroom place in the area ie: it has no demonstrable affordability compared to anything else around. The NSW Government has since reviewed this policy and proposed changes will introduce an affordability requirement to boarding house developments. "New generation" boarding houses and student accommodation will no longer be facilitated under broader boarding house provisions and developers will need to meet new design requirements without the same incentives.
4. Hurlstone Park is a great community and good developments, at appropriate sites by developers with integrity would be welcomed, as would dwellings which offer affordable options. To date most developments have been offered to investors and have not been affordable.
5. People should not be blamed for poor policy. Whether it's to protect parks, libraries, or public transport, or heritage homes, communities should continue to rally against poor design, poor consultation, and planning for profit.

It is disappointing that the Land and Environment Court has found in favour of this development, including the excessive height. I note that the developer is also responsible a development on Floss and Dunstaffinage St which is entirely unattractive as well. It was good to see however that some parking has been created on site, which was not a consideration in the initial proposal. However, how entry and exit from the basement parking will work at that intersection will be interesting.....

I am delighted to read that this development has been approved despite a local campaign to keep poor people out of Hurlstone Park.

Sydney is experiencing a severe housing crisis, with even fully employed under 40s priced out of the housing market. For people on the fringes of the economy things are even worse, with very few accommodation options available apart from boarding houses..

I lived for a decade next door to a boarding house in Marrickville without the slightest problem. Poor people should be helped, not demonised.

Floss Street is an unremarkable precinct overdue for new development and new people.

I have just discovered that the 42 room Boarding House has been approved for this site despite continued local opposition. This must be what happens when you have a Council so far removed from the people it is supposed to be serving. The parking and traffic issues seem to have been ignored by Council, not to mention that the building is not at all in keeping with the surrounding area. A very disappointing decision from a Council that should not be "looking after" Hurlstone Park!

It is with deep unhappiness that I see Council has approved this development. After so much protest by the community this totally inappropriate and unwanted development will be a blot on the landscape of our Heritage Suburb.

Do not let this be a precedent to be used by other profiteering developers- this is not Canterbury Road. Another example of why Hurlstone Park is an anachronism in the Canterbury Bankstown Council amalgamation- we should never have been added on to this council and should have been attached to the Inner West. Unacceptable!

Canterbury Bankstown Council building inspectors would need a new seeing eye dog or they would need to visit the site at some time. There are many defects that the neighbours had to tell the building inspectors and how dogy the builder was.
The building is still not finished yes they have given an occupation certificate. The new owner has been misled by the Council, I think that is called fraud.

This type of housing attracts tenants who are not helpful at building community. There is one particular resident at the exist site who follows my wife when walking the streets, swears in proximity of my children, spits in the direction of passers-by and is generally threatening.

This school has buildings which should be heritage listed, such as the admin block which were the classrooms in the 50’s. I hope they be preserved when constructing the new buildings. With the expansion of the school this will only further create traffic congestion from High st into Fore st. Stop the overdevelopment of Canterbury!