HORNSBY
,
New South Wales
Message
To whom it may concern,
I am writing to strongly object to this development. As a local resident of William St I do not want to see:
1/ 40 trees cut down. The property is beautiful. I enjoy walking past the trees every day and feel that WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE MORE TREES! In our current mode of decimation of our natural environment we should not cut down more trees. The council planting 25,000 trees is a start- but it will take these trees 40-100 years to reach the majesty of the ones that are at 1 Rosemead. If there were a was a way of keeping these trees, monitoring and loping them for safety, that would go a long way to alleviating my concerns. Just cutting them down is not acceptable.
2/ Increase of traffic. The neighbourhood is already packed with cars. People park for the station directly in front of our house. It is very difficult to drive down William St if there is any oncoming traffic. My mother who is 91 crosses the road directly in front of our house. I am already concerned for her safety due to the number of vehicles. She is less attentive and capable due to her age. I cannot imagine how this scenario will be impacted with the proposed increase. How is she even to begin to cross the road at peak times? This will be something that will impact her negatively with potentially disastrous consequences.
3/ Right now that property and corner and beautiful. It is really picturesque and quiet. I walk around there almost daily. It will only be ruined by the erection of a fence and the huge increase in numbers of people. It will change the character of the entire neighbourhood. All of us are here because we love the quiet bushland appeal. This project will utterly remove our very reason for enjoying this part of Hornsby so much. It is a very sad thing for our quiet local area to have something beyond our control be introduced purely for financial gain.
It proves the council's lack of care of it's residents. This is reflected too by the difficulty in registering to be able to add input. I spent over an hour firstly trying to find the project and was then unable to register using multiple email addresses once I found the correct page. If you have few comp[laints it's because your website is broken and will not allow new comments.
This alone should be reason for extending the time to register our opinions as it has become an illegal process.
I urge you to reconsider this development and to take this letter of complaint to whomever can action my concerns directly.
Yours,
Don Watt
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Hornsby, 2077