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.
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