OC objects to DA on neighbouring property

If you live in NSW, lots of luck!  No matter how many people complain the developers just go to the Land and Envionment Board and it gets through any way.  You would need thousands of individuals complaining and as some recent developments in Sydney show, developers “rule”.

Local councils seem to be influenced by numbers, so the more individual residents who complain the better.

In my suburb there were a group who were very involved in door knocking, petitioning, and attending council meetings to protest a part residential and retail development that was out of character for the area, and not needed.  It will create extra traffic in a small lane going past a pre-school kindergarten entrance.  The lane is already being used as a 'rat run' by cars as there are only two roads that allow a right hand turn onto the main road going through the suburb.

All the protests only delayed the inevitable for about six years.  The original developers sold out, but it still went ahead and the heavy machines have moved in.

When I was living in my last apartment, the local council wrote to advise they were changing the zoning for a sports club which was surrounded by houses, so that a high rise development could be built (though the surrounding houses were not going to be rezoned to allow high rise).  So we would have had a tower sticking out from amongst the californian bungalows.

Though I was in an apartment block, I protested this development.  It was unfair to those around it, it would increase parking problems that already existed (due to the large number of apartment blocks that were already in the area such as mine and because the development would only have 1 car park for each 2/3 bedroom unit) and the streets leading to this development could not have taken that much more traffic.

I like to think by getting off my behind and writing my objection that I contributed to this development being shelved!  Instead of a huge tower they built some terrace houses that look great and fit in with the surrounds and with enough parking.  

So write in, state your case!  Put in every and any negative you can think of for this proposed development (noise, pollution, traffic, parking, unsightly, heavy vehicles (dangerous for elderly and children crossing roads).  Get everyone to write in including the OC.  I know one thing for sure – it will go ahead if no one says anything.