I am writing in regard to the proposed building of a 10-11-storey development at 216-224 Main Rd, Toukley.
Toukley is a low-rise quiet township with one road in and one road out.
This proposal will ruin the area.
Main Rd is so busy now – often coming to a standstill.
This development is way too large for the area, (which is) better suited to 3-4 storey height.
We need to inform more people, as I don’t think many people know about this oversized development.
Email, Mar 31
Sue Davies, Toukley
Absolutely, no high rise for Toukley. Apart from the traffic through Main Street high rises are just unsightly. Let’s keep Toukley a nice quite little country town.
Unless council are going to widen toukley bridge and buy up all the properties on main road to widen the road into Toukley, this one way roads (already choked) cannot cope with all the extra people that this would house.
Absolutely stupidity! EVERYONE should say no!!!
I have sent numerous submissions for this 11 storey development, the Toukley nursing home development in Peel Street, and the low income housing building near the Beachcomber, I feel that neither the Council or the various government departments care for the ratepayers of the existing dwellings already and have been for many years here in Toukley, there is no additional infrastructure been added in the 54 years I have resided here other than a new bridge from Toukley to Gorokan that for some unknown reason now floods badly on the east and west side of the bridge every time it sprinkles rain, has anyone bothered to look and clean the drains that are supposed to be under the bridge cleaned out, but that is another problem that the council needs to fix. Back to the new development that no one wants to give me answers to, No 1, where do the developers or the owners of the site live? Are they residents of Australia? If not where do they live, I don’t mean just one of them I mean all the developers who are listed as directors on the application, I know that the development for low income housing in Dunleigh Street, near the Beachcomber is owned by a Chinese family with one member living in Sydney, the rest in China!
No2. No one has bothered to show where the excess car parking is going to be for the residents who are to live in the residential complex, for every resident there will be at least 2 cars so at least, yes low income families do have cars sometimes 3,I have heard that Rowland Terrace, a cul de sac with 16 abodes is full especially of a weekend with the B & B usually wanting parking up to 9 cars, Peel Street from the ambulance station to Eldon Street isn’t able to take more cars than what is parked there now due to the way the road is formed. Not only do you have to have parking for the residents, which for a development this size is supposed to be 2 car spaces per unit or retail areas, someone can’t count because there is insufficient parking plus there is only 1 parking space for delivery vehicles, I wouldn’t like to pay rent on a premises where I can’t receive deliveries when needed as the one parking space is in use, again i think the council/government should look at this problem.
No3. Will the developers pay for the upgrade and damage caused to Toukley Gardens itself once the development begins?
No4. What insurance are the developers paying to the council for damage to the homes already within the building area, which is generally for developments this size at least three to four street blocks away. A note to the home owners a hint from me, go through your house with a camera and a witness and take photos of your ceilings, walls, floors inside and out and the tiles etc in your bathroom and if at all possible your roof covering eg roof tiles, check with your house insurance how long you have to make a claim against the developers try and have the photos dated or your witness sign for what they could see, if there is any damage and the date!
No 5. Now my biggest problem is no one has bothered to consider the disabled and their carers in the public areas. A} the public toilets for the disabled should not be housed inside the public toilets, they should be separate from general use toilets and family rooms, there should be two on each floor for a building this size.
B} The disabled should be able to have their dignity by being able to go and use a toilet without having to go into the Ladies toilets because they are men with their wives and the women refuse to walk into a men’s toilet to access disabled facilities for their husbands because that is demeaning to the husbands who are disabled, to the women having to see men in a state of undress and the men who are there doing their own business. I have voiced this problem many times before and also for this application and no one has bothered to address the problem, it is about time it was! There are a lot of aged and young people who need assistance from a carer when using a toilet. Family rooms MUST be separate and cameras above the outside the disabled rooms watching to see who is using them! I hope someone can read my comments, and let the public of Toukley a reply to some of my questions, I do have a lot more, eg does this development have to be presented to the Mine Subsidence Board to see if it is safe to be built so close to the lake as all the residences had to do before they could be built? I would like to see how premier of NSW would handle having an oversized monstrosity like this built next to his house or even 2 street blocks! Due to my husbands ill health I was unable to submit a submission by the due date.
This development is absolutely absurd . The main road toukley at present is totally overtaxed , with traffic banking back to the bridge going west across the bridge & traffic bumper to bumper travelling east into toukley.
something should be done with the land. Maybe a park, just leave the trees. mow the grass.