DAs In Play 21/1/26 to 3/3/26

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table. Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building
• OC =Occupation Certificate

DAs In Play 8/11/25 to 20/1/26

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table. Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building
• OC = Occupation certificate

DAs In Play 15/9/25 to 8/11/25

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table. Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

DAs In Play 11/9/24 to 30/9/24

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

DAs In Play to 20/9/23 to 11/12/23

It’s been a few months since a DA update has been provided and so there has been a bit of action, which if you share a boundary you may know about, but if you don’t you find out sometimes when the trees start to fall.

Some of the DAs of note include the demolition of the two waterfront houses on Victory Row in the Terraces section of the Toronto Foreshore Park, a carwash proposal and extra parking at the Toronto Workers Club, an interesting one into subdivision at 83 Skye Point Rd (a duplex and house) and a big one at 133 Excelsior Pde (10 two-storey multi-dwelling units).

114-118 Cary Street

Land & Environment Court Hearing proposed for Cary Street residential development- (Victory Pde/Cary St lights, next to McDonalds).

Toronto Investments (applicant) has appealed to the NSW Land and Environment Court against the Hunter and Central Coast Regional Planning Panel’s refusal of Development Application No. DA/1651/2022 (114-118 Cary Street) for the construction of a mixed-use residential apartment building (108 units), following a breakdown of a Court-mediated conciliation process. The Court has now allowed the applicant to amend its DA and granted the applicant a hearing between 18-20 December.

Changes to the proposed building are mainly cosmetic, with the bulk, scale, size and heavy footprint essentially unchanged and it is still non-compliant under the Toronto Town Centre Area Plan. A more constrained, open development would help rather than hinder linkages with surrounds including the foreshore and Greenway and foster more active transport and leisure.

Whilst concerns about potential groundwater impacts on the adjacent SEPP 14 Toronto coastal wetland due to the proposed construction of a two level basement carpark have been somewhat addressed there are still uncertainties with modelling and field data.

Potential traffic-related impacts in surrounding streets and, particularly the Cary St/Bay St intersection, are not well addressed. Resident concerns about traffic congestion and safety have been largely ignored.

In-fill around town centres such as Toronto should be designed sensitively, without despoiling public amenity, natural and cultural heritage, appeal to residents and visitors, and a healthy environment and connection to our lake.

The Public are welcome to attend the on-site (Cary Street) meeting at 10.20 am on December 18 but will only be permitted to speak if previously registered. Council’s refusal position hasn’t changed. A community presence to support those immediately impacted as well as Council is something we can do to advocate against development by attrition, where community exhaustion weakens the capacity for the community to comment.

The issues mentioned in the August 2022 Chronicle remain ostensibly the same as outlined in previous Chronicles. https://coalpointprogress.blogspot.com/2022/08/da16512022-114-120-cary-street.html

CPPA Vice President – Nico Marcar

DAs in PLay 20/9/23 to 11/12/23

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table at right.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: 

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying
• Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

DAs In Play

DA Update

The 2 into 3 Lot subdivision of the block of land that runs from 2 Brighton Ave to 133 Excelsior Parade was recently approved. Hopefully the protection of the vegetated ridgeline which was a concern for so many locals will be the result.

 

DAs In Play 23/8/22 to 22/9/22

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table at right.
Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

DA = Development Application
BC = Building Information Certificate

DAs In Play 3/5/22 to 16/6/22

 The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing:  

https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

DAs in Play 7/2/22- 13/3/22

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table. Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: 

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

DAs In Play 20/12/21 - 6/2/22

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: 

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

DA's in Play 9/10/21 to 9/11/21

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table below.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: 

https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate,
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate,
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

Two very different DA's on our doorstep, provides some local commentary on the various styles of development we are seeing. 

On notice for comment is 163-167 Excelsior Pde, a development that is including open space and tree retention.

DA In Play 1/9/21 to 8/10/21 & Two different DAs

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: 

https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate,
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate,
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

Two very different DAs on our doorstep

A DA with a difference to comment on
 163-167 Excelsior Parade - DA/2459/2021

Demolition, Multi Dwelling housing and a 3 into 26 lot Strata Subdivision.

A development application with a difference, one that has attempted to retain some of the vegetation! On page 17 of the Statement of Environment Effects the proponent states in regards to Landscape and Tree Planting – "We highlight that the design is specifically derived around retention of existing significant vegetation on site and within the road verge. The designer has taken great care to ensure significant stands of vegetation are retained at the front, centre and mid-block interface portions on the allotment."

Some images of the proposal's location and context  follow:

DA/2075/2021 (44-46 Brighton Avenue, Toronto)

Aggressive encroachment and dangerous precedents:

In contrast to the vegetation retention approach proposed above, local residents have recently been commenting on a DA which not only proposed clearing of all vegetation on the block but also vegetation on adjacent blocks.

Those of us who live around or travel along Brighton Avenue and Excelsior Parade have noticed the increasing loss of vegetation and birdsong as developers have moved into the ‘medium density’ rezoning between Pemell and Ambrose Streets, combined blocks and turned them into tightly packed units.

DA/2075/2021 (44-46 Brighton Avenue, Toronto), now being assessed by Council staff, pushes the limits even further in seeking to squeeze nine units into two former house blocks just along from Jarrett Street (one of them with the spreading liquid amber that is so glorious in autumn).

The developer seeks to build right up to the side and back fences with a gun-barrel drive/watercourse up the middle.

That involves not only the removal of all trees on the site but also the removal of adjacent mature trees on the southern side and at the back. It constitutes a drastic encroachment upon those neighbouring properties.

Obviously it is not practical to slice off half a tree, branches and roots, along a fenceline and expect the other half to remain intact. Such aggressive action would create a hazard. Either the other half must be viciously trimmed in the hope of eventual re-growth, or it must be removed.

Of course there is a legal right to seek removal of encroaching hazards, but is not reasonable to submit create potential hazards and demand encroachment rights without prior consent. There is no ‘right’ to cause collateral damage.

Neighbours have objected. Council’s Streetscape/Landscape Referral Response addresses some of the harmful impacts but downplays or ignores others.

If Council were to approve this DA, it would set an appalling precedent. The whole ridgeline from Pemell St to Ambrose St would become a clearfell zone and be turned into a hard-surface, bird-free, built environment with massive stormwater run-off into the lake and no outdoor residential amenity.

Building codes are belatedly addressing the worsening heat-island effects of rising temperatures (climate change) combined with urban densification and wide expanses of unshaded heat-absorbent surfaces. Science has established that vegetated neighbourhoods can be at least 10% cooler than exposed built environments, thereby providing more comfortable and more healthy residential amenity.

Some Sydney Councils have become pro-active in addressing heat-island effects. LMCC should also address this worsening problem as part of its strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change. The developer will clear, build, sell and leave. LMCC and ratepayers will own the problem in perpetuity, so we need foresight and good planning now. This DA is the clearest possible example of poor practice not only in precinct planning but also in climate mitigation and adaptation.

Let us hope Council does proper due diligence and holds its nerve.

DA In Play 25/5/21 to 10/7/21

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry. 

DA = Development Application

BC = Building Information Certificate

TA = Tree Assessment 

CC = Construction Certificate, 

CDC = Complying Development Certificate, 

REF = Review Environmental Factors

SC = Subdivision Certificate.

MU = Mixed use

RFB = Residential flat Building

DA In Play to 5/11/20

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

• DA = Development Application
• BC = Building Information Certificate
• TA = Tree Assessment
• CC = Construction Certificate,
• CDC = Complying Development Certificate,
• REF = Review Environmental Factors
• SC = Subdivision Certificate.
• MU = Mixed use
• RFB = Residential flat Building

Pre-DA to ponder

There’s a new tool available to see what council’s plans for housing supply within our community are prior to the DAs being lodged, it’s the LMCC Urban Development Program (UDP). It monitors our City’s residential development pipeline in both greenfield and infill areas. A link to the UDP is on our website.

On the map you can see pre-development applications are in process at

• 2 Brighton Ave for 18 small lot dwellings
• 149 Excelsior Pde for 20 small lot dwellings
• 163-167 Excelsior Pde for 28 small lot dwellings
• 44 Brighton Ave for 10 small lot dwellings
• 114 Carey St has 129 RBF MU dwellings
• The Carey Bay Squash Courts has 23 RBF MU dwellings

Also shown are the approved 5 lot subdivision at 25-27 Kilaben Rd and 22 dwellings at 20 Laycock St.

Where are the community spaces and footpaths to support this growth?

DAs In Play to 1/10/20

The CPPA endeavours to provide a summary of active applications in our area as outlined in the table.

Please consult LMCC’s website for a full listing: https://www.lakemac.com.au/Development/Planning-and-development-services/Application-Enquiry.

• DA=Development Application
• BC= Building Information Certificate
• TA=Tree Assessment
• CC=Construction Certificate,
• CDC= Complying Development Certificate,
• REF= Review Environmental Factors
• SC=Subdivision Certificate.

DA UpDAte: 114-120 Cary St

HCC Regional Planning Panel decision on 114-120 Cary Street DA

On 11/12/19 community presentations were made to the Hunter Central Coast Joint Regional Planning Panel opposing the multi-storey development at 114-120 Cary Street. 

Suzanne Pritchard spoke on behalf of CPPA and TASNG. The panel rejected the DA on multiple grounds. Many of the issues raised resonating with the Bath St debacle and included:

• In its current form would not be in the public interest
• Proposed height and visual impact was inappropriate and contrary to local planning objectives of the area
• Inconsistent with the objectives of the Toronto Town Centre Plan
• Potential environmental effects on the adjacent SEPP14 Wetland had not been considered and addressed
• Inadequate setbacks and building separation from adjoining property
• Inadequately addressed acoustic and odour impacts from McDonalds
• Inadequately addresses traffic impacts on surrounding streets and other local users
• Didn’t address the pedestrian issues associated with the narrow width of Arnott Avenue
• Didn’t meet visitor parking requirements

 The full determination can be viewed here.

DA UpDAte

Please consult  Lake Macquarie City Council’s Application Tracking system
for details and a complete listing.

DA's in Play

9 Lorron Close: One (1) Into Two (2) Lot Subdivision: Awaiting Information Requested

20 Laycock St (22 units)

An extension for submission of an amended application has been granted until the 27th July. The intention of the developer “is to continue to seek approval for the development in modified form that meets the expectations of Council and the community”. Issues that are still being addressed include tree retention and protection, fire hydrants, non-discriminatory accessibility and noise during construction.

DA’s in play

Please note this list is not exhaustive and is an attempt to list DA’s that may be of community interest. Details should be sought from the Application Tracking website of LMCC

• Council Assessment - 91 Excelsior Pde: 1 into 2 lot subdivision
• Awaiting Information Requested - 23 Hampton Street: 2 Lots into 23 Lots Subdivision
• Awaiting Information Requested - 69 Coal Point Road: One(1) into Three(3) Lot Subdivision
• Awaiting DA determination - 144-146 Skye Point Road: Foreshore Development - Jetty
• Under assessment - 151 Excelsior Parade: Multiple Dwelling Housing - 23 Units
• Under assessment - 20 Laycock st: 24 Multiple Dwellings
• Under Assessment -132 Coal Point Road: B149 - Dwelling, Garage & Swimming Pool
• Under assessment - 83 Skye Point Road Kerb and Guttering works
• Under assessment -287 Coal Point Rd: Remove 1 tree
• Under assessment - 17 Grant Road: Dwelling Additions and Deck
• Under Assessment - 182 Skye Point Road: Foreshore Development - Slipway & Jetty Extension
• On Notification/Advertising - 70 Coal Point Road: Alteration / Additions
• Approved - 6 Beale St: Garage & additions to patio/renew existing garage & pergola
• Approved - 7 Stansfield Close: Attached Patio to Existing Deck.
• Approved - 1 Ellis Cl: Dwelling House
• Approved - 47 Skye Point Rd: Remove 2 trees
• Approved - 30 Ambrose Street : Dwelling additions and alteration to garage

DA 151 Excelsior Pde- 23 Units

Proposed view of 151 Excelsior Pde.
NB the landscaping is absent to show the form on the site.

Lodged on the 22/5/14 the notable new DA in this selection is the proposed 23 Units at 151 Excelsior Pde.

Adjacent residents have expressed concerns that

• the bulk and scale of the proposal is excessive for the site and the community in which it is situated.
• access for vehicle movements on and off the site as well as within the site appear inadequate.
• the number of parking spaces provided onsite is insufficient and will lead to on street parking which will exacerbate the existing parking premiums and be compounded when the nearby preschool is built 
• the alteration of ground levels will impact on the vegetation of of adjoining lots.

Community submissions on this development are currently being accepted and an extension for the comment period has been sought.

If you would like to talk about this proposal contact the community spokesperson Steve Dewar mob 0401 180 669

Landscape Plan to show the proposed layout of 23 townhouses at 151 Excelsior Pde

DA’s in Play

In the past month

• Approval was given to demolish an existing dwelling at 41 Skye Point Rd
• Under assessment still is the 1 into 3 lot subdivision at 69 Coal Point Rd
• Approval was granted for additions and alteration at 202 Skye Point Rd
• Approval granted for extensions at 15 Robey Cres
• Awaiting requested information for a garage and retaining walls at 273 Skye Point Rd
• Awaiting information requested for dwelling alterations and additions at 215 Coal Point Rd
• Approval granted for 3 trees to be removed at 48 Amelia St
• Amended plans on notice 26 Multiple dwellings to 24 Multiple dwellings at 20 Laycock St

This information is publicly available via LMCC's Application Tracking system and summarised here for community convenience