DA of the DAy- DA1243 Amended. 2 Brighton Av-133 Excelsior Pde

Amended DA

August DA

The 19 dwelling proposal spanning 2 Brighton Avenue to 133 Excelsior Parade has been amended and resubmitted.

The significant concerns about scenic and visual impact, engineering design, and loss of wildlife corridor remain unchanged.

As this is the same DA 1243/2016 that was submitted in August the 130 or so submissions already lodged will remain as part of the council’s considerations.

An extension on the period to comment on the amended DA has been granted until 30/12/16. If you have time to send a quick follow up email to council@lakemac.nsw.gov.au confirming your original submission or expanding on it, this would all help in consolidating the community’s concerns about the local impacts.

A community letter summarising these concerns is available to download on the CPPA website.

Local resident Paul Kelly will be making an address to the Councillors on 13/2/16 at 5:30pm in the Council Chambers. Your support at this Council meeting would be most welcome.

LMCC Council Officers’ responses to the amendments of DA1243/2016 are available on the Application Tracking website and have been summarised below to assist the community with access to the information.

• Flora and Fauna: Approximately 218 trees occur on the subject site, 35 of which (or 16%) have now been proposed to be retained. Proposed tree retention still differs to previous discussions held with Councils Arborist and Landscape Architect in this regard. 
• Scenic values: initial concerns regarding the scenic impact statement have not been resolved.
• Preservation of Trees: The additional tree retention across the eastern boundary is compromised by stormwater infrastructure along this boundary and does not adequately compensate for the loss of vegetation across the site and subsequent visual impacts. The amended landscape plan does not address the broader issues regarding site planning, topography and loss of scenic values of the peninsula vegetation.
• Landscape Design: The loss of the large tree atop the knoll to carparking is not supported. The landscape design to western private open space relies on turf and hedge planting with minimal canopy tree planting and not of a scale proportional to two storey dwellings. The landscape area along the eastern boundary adjoining R2 land is further compromised by vehicle parking. 
• Tree retention: Additional tree retention is not consistent with recommendations of arboriculture report, additional information and detailed tree protection plan is required to address engineering impacts such as excavation/ retaining wall construction and other substantial ground disturbances.
• Recycling/Waste: additional comments do not meet waste management requirements fully. If a private contractor is engaged residents will be paying twice for the waste service.
• Stormwater discharge: additional onsite storage required to meet acceptable discharge flows. A revised Stormwater Management is required. 
• Cut and fill 
• Retaining wall heights exceed those allowed in the DCP 
• A lot of the levels provided do not correlate with pit levels in stormwater management plan 
• Many of the levels shown do not work…the plans are to be revised 
• Traffic and Transport
• Certification from a qualified engineer is required to state that sight distances are acceptable on Brighton Ave 
• Shared Brighton Ave access with neighbours still an issue 
• Internal road to be redesigned so all entry and exits can be made from Excelsior Pde- not addressed 
• Driveway widths not provided- internal driveway and carparking grades appear not to conform to DCP 2014