DA 545 The Module Redevelopment

About 140 residents of Beecroft and Cheltenham met in the Cheltenham Rec Club to debate the latest proposal to demolish the Module and replace it with a mixed commercial and residential five storey block.  The new supermarket and most of the proposed shops are underground, with the residential units coming to ground level along Hannah Street.  The proposed mix of units include 75 single bed units of 50 to 60 sqm, where the minumum legal size is 50 sqm.  There will be 43 two bedroom units at 85 sqm (marginally larger than the minimum legal size of 70 sqm, and 18 three bedroom units at 95 to 120 sqm, against a minimum permitted size of 95 sqm.
The meeting was unanimous in feeling that the proposal
a) is too much like a block of cheap flats, making no visible contribution to the shopping village.
b) will attract a class of resident totally mismatched to the present population and facilities of Beecroft and Cheltenham,
c) with one traffic access to the three floors of underground car parking being onto Hannah Street, this represents a huge hazard to pedestrians, and
d) addition of all these extra people, with cars, is totally unacceptable with the present traffic density on Hannah Street and Beecroft Road.

Beecroft shopping centre module redevelopment

DA/545/2013 to demolish the Module and construct a mixed resident and residential building has been revised and reissued.  But the plan still shows the 26 commercial premises in the Module will be replaced with just 11 commercial premises!

By late 2014 during construction of the North West Rail Link, Epping residents, particularly those living in Ray Road and those using the intersection of Carlingford with Ray and Rawson, could be impacted by construction noise 24/7 and around 140 large spoil trucks, on our busy roads - per day!

Epping Civic Trust Concerns about NWRL

By late 2014 Epping residents, particularly those living in Ray Road and those using the intersection of Carlingford with Ray and Rawson, could be impacted by construction noise 24/7 and around 140 large spoil trucks, on our busy roads - per day!

Epping Town Centre Development

Epping Civic Trust report that the NSW State Government plans a number of 30 storey buildings for Epping Town Centre.  Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) propose a public exhibition in mid to late Feb 2013.  The ECT newsletter includes the statement "Unless there is an extremely hight number of objections and much public outcry the Plan will not change."

North West Rail Link concerns

There is a very thought-provoking video on the NWRL presented on EcoTransit's YouTube channel, that seeks to address the motivations, misconceptions, lies, politics and personalities behind promotion of the NWRL Metro proposal .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5upD1WkEvBE

View it and see what you think.  The consequences of the NWRL as now designed, and the constraints it will place on commuter traffic through and from Beecroft, could be very significant.

DA 38/2013 Chapman/Wongala

A Development Application has been submitted to develop the north east corner of the Beecroft Shopping Village as five storey residential units.  DA 38/2013, details on the Hornsby Shire Council website.  Submissions close 6 March.