Moriah College Redevelopment

I believe this project will enhance he education facility for both staff and students and will therefore benefit the community and society as a whole.

Key benefits of Moriah’s proposal to upgrade facilities at the Queens Park campus
Creating updated, contemporary learning spaces and new recreational spaces
• Modern, high quality spaces are needed to suit contemporary teaching and learning methods. Moriah College is currently experiencing a shortfall of appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated. The College proposes to upgrade its school facilities to
create contemporary learning spaces that inspire innovation.
• A new agile and adaptive study centre will offer a flexible, modern High School library-space that will house a book collection and support innovative learning in a technology-rich environment.
• The project will offer more spaces where students can get together, to allow for greater social interaction and enhance collaborative knowledge sharing.
• The proposed design includes the construction of a new building, which will maximise spatial resources and leverage more opportunities for students to enjoy green, open spaces.
Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours
Moriah College has actively designed a proposal to improve traffic congestion within the Queens Park area including:
• A new internal ‘ring road’, which will ensure all High School vehicle drop off and pick up will improve traffic flow, and keep more cars on campus and off local roads
• A Green Travel Plan, which seeks to create a modal shift, encouraging greater use of public transport, walking, cycling, and car-pooling, rather than private vehicle use. This is expected to reduce private vehicle use by 10% and will include more than 100 additional bicycle spaces, showers, change rooms and lockers.
• Staggered arrival and departure times for different cohorts of students will help reduce traffic congestion during the peak traffic periods
• The redirection of vehicle access away from residents on Queens Park Road by relocating the main entry and administration of Moriah College to York Road and Baronga Avenue, further reducing potential impact for near neighbours
• Most importantly, as part of the proposal, Moriah College will be upgrading the Queens Park / York Road intersection and the York Road / Baronga Avenue intersection further providing real and sustainable solutions to the traffic issues facing the Queens Park precinct as a whole. Moriah has been working collaboratively with Waverley Council to ensure these intersection upgrades will occur prior to development of the new facilities.
Sustainable growth delivered in a staged approach
• The proposed upgrades enable Moriah College to grow sustainably. The school currently has capacity for 1,680 students and is seeking an increase of 17% across Early Learning through to Year 12 that will be delivered in a staged approach over the next 15 years. This equates to a 1% increase per annum.
Moriah is an important community hub
• Moriah College is a place of belonging for our whole community and we welcome many community members to participate in events and activities at the College. A variety of major communal organisations utilise Moriah’s facilities for their events and will be inspired to bring their programs to our new, flexible spaces

I’m addition to the above mentioned Moriah College generously shares its facilities with the broader Jewish and non Jewish communities.

Traffic congestion is already a major problem in local streets surrounding Moriah College particularly between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning and 3.00 to 4.30pm in the afternoon.
Illegal parking in local side streets by cars waiting to pick up from the school is already a safety hazard and increased numbers of students will only increase these safety hazards to local residents.
Moriah College has comprehensively failed to manage its own TTPP for along time so how will the College ensure compliance with its own TTPP with increased numbers?
Resident parking is frequently difficult due to events at Moriah College.
Pedestrian safety risks will increase with increased numbers at the College.
Local streets are already a virtual parking lot during drop off and pick up times and local amenity is already significantly affected by college traffic
The bulk of the proposed buildings will negatively dominate the visual impact of the local area.
Waverley Council should conduct an independent traffic study to assess the impact of the proposed development.

Moriah College lacks appropriate learning spaces for our students and this project will help address this.

Key benefits of Moriah’s proposal to upgrade facilities at the Queens Park campus
Creating updated, contemporary learning spaces and new recreational spaces
• Modern, high quality spaces are needed to suit contemporary teaching and learning methods. Moriah College is currently experiencing a shortfall of appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated. The College proposes to upgrade its school facilities to create contemporary learning spaces that inspire innovation.
• A new agile and adaptive study centre will offer a flexible, modern High School library-space that will house a book collection and support innovative learning in a technology-rich environment.
• The project will offer more spaces where students can get together, to allow for greater social interaction and enhance collaborative knowledge sharing.
• The proposed design includes the construction of a new building, which will maximise spatial resources and leverage more opportunities for students to enjoy green, open spaces.
Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours
Moriah College has actively designed a proposal to improve traffic congestion within the Queens Park area including:
• A new internal ‘ring road’, which will ensure all High School vehicle drop off and pick up will improve traffic flow, and keep more cars on campus and off local roads
• A Green Travel Plan, which seeks to create a modal shift, encouraging greater use of public transport, walking, cycling, and car-pooling, rather than private vehicle use. This is expected to reduce private vehicle use by 10% and will include more than 100 additional bicycle spaces, showers, change rooms and lockers.
• Staggered arrival and departure times for different cohorts of students will help reduce traffic congestion during the peak traffic periods
• The redirection of vehicle access away from residents on Queens Park Road by relocating the main entry and administration of Moriah College to York Road and Baronga Avenue, further reducing potential impact for near neighbours
• Most importantly, as part of the proposal, Moriah College will be upgrading the Queens Park / York Road intersection and the York Road / Baronga Avenue intersection further providing real and sustainable solutions to the traffic issues facing the Queens Park precinct as a whole. Moriah has been working collaboratively with Waverley Council to ensure these intersection upgrades will occur prior to development of the new facilities.
Sustainable growth delivered in a staged approach
• The proposed upgrades enable Moriah College to grow sustainably. The school currently has capacity for 1,680 students and is seeking an increase of 17% across Early Learning through to Year 12 that will be delivered in a staged approach over the next 15 years. This equates to a 1% increase per annum.
Moriah is an important community hub
• Moriah College is a place of belonging for our whole community and we welcome many community members to participate in events and activities at the College. A variety of major communal organisations utilise Moriah’s facilities for their events and will be inspired to bring their programs to our new, flexible spaces.

This project is vital for the continued education of students and will alleviate the current stress on the residents of Queens Park Road.

This project is critical for the schools growth and sustainability for the years to come.

With lack of high schools in the eastern suburbs I think it is fantastic to increase Moriah providing a fantastic secondary education. The new building looks fantastic and the school has put processes in place not to effect the community.

I am both a local resident and a parent with 2 children who attend the school. I am a strong supporter of Moriah's planning application for a number of both personal and community reasons as set out below:
(1) As a resident I travel around the school daily, and believe that the proposed development will increase the aesthetics and stature of the area. Currently, particularly along Baronga Ave, the school grounds are dull and unappealing. With the new development, it will create a real sense of grandeur to the street - and also enhance and improve the appeal from the surrounding areas.
(2) Further to the above point, I think that creating a state of the art campus will actually be of huge benefit to the community. Largely because it creates a more appealing aesthetic, and therefore enhances the surrounding local area - and this in turn creates ta more desirable area that people want to live in, whilst possibly also increasing house prices for home owners - a nice added benefit for the local residents.
(3) As a parent of the school, I think it is important that the school keeps up with the times and demands of a 21st century world. The proposed development creates incredible learning facilities to develop the leaders of tomorrow. Schools are constantly under the pump from governments and the community to give our kids the best chance of success and this development allows Moriah to do so.

Moriah College is currently experiencing a shortfall of appropriate learning spaces, with some existing buildings inefficient and outdated. The College proposes to upgrade its school facilities to create contemporary learning spaces that inspire innovation.

Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours. Moriah College has actively designed a proposal to improve traffic congestion within the Queens Park area.

Moriah is an important community hub and is a place of belonging for our whole community where we welcome many community members to participate in events and activities at the College.

Moriah is a significant community school with growing enrollments. The application made by Moriah addresses many of the local community concerns (such as parking) and is intended to actually improve this situation for the students, parents and locals. For example, by providing a new internal ring road for high school drop off and pick ups.
As a growing school, Moriah must be able to provide adequate and up to date facilities for its students. Their proposal is essential to enable teaching and learning into the next decades and to facilitate the growing numbers of students at the school.

Great for the school, great for the Jewish community.

I support the proposed development at Moriah college.
The project will alleviatiate existing local traffic issues by incorporating an new internal ring road, moving the location of the main entrance of the school and improving the Queens Park / York Road intersection and the York Road / Baronga Avenue intersection. The improvements to the school to encourage green transport (eg bike racks, showers and lockers will further improve traffic). These improvements will more than offset the impact of the small increase in the student population.
Further, the upgraded of the facilities will be of benefit to not just the school community, but the wider community as Moriah Collegewelcome many community members
to participate in events and activities at the College. A variety of major communal organisations utilise Moriah’s facilities for their events and this will increase with more flexible spaces.

There is ample consideration in the plans that is given to traffic concerns. If anything, the adjustments that are made by the new development will alleviate current traffic concerns by taking away the traffic from currently congested areas (by changing entry gates), as well as dispersing the traffic flow thanks to adjusting the start times for different sections of the school. There will be large ring roads inside the school to further alleviate problems, as well as changed external road conditions, which will cater for and encourage public trasnport options for students. There will also be more parking for cars within the school, which will further decongest the surrounding area.

Looks great. Will be a positive for the community

The residents haven't raised concerns beyond NIMBYism and unrrasonableness. Enrolment/traffic numbers have little to do with a new garden/sports/learning facilities. The proposed ring road, green plan, staggered times, vehicle redirection and intersection design will help. This zoning hasn't been Residential in a long time and the residents seem to forget this. Sydney has a lot of planning issues, and this will help rather than hinder, sustainably.

I support this project.

Dear Sir/Madam,
I wholeheartedly support this project. I have been a teacher at Moriah College for almost 12 years, so know the implications as a teacher of the learning spaces for the students and how the planned development would assist in better utilising the Moriah College site and assist in positive learning outcomes for all of our students. I also know all too well the issues with parking and have friends that are Queens Park residential neighbours that have difficulty with the parking surrounding the school due to teachers needing to park nearby. The internal ring-road that is proposed will make such a difference to morning and afternoon traffic congestion in the area and streamline what has always been a frustrating process for the school community, local residents as well as those that have their morning and afternoon commute involving York Road.
Additionally, the impracticality of the orientation of the school reception on Queens Park Road both disrupts the school and local community. A reorganising of this to better utilise the space by having the hub of the school facing Queens Park would significantly alleviate these issues.
I am so excited about the prospect of these changes for the College, the school community and the local community living near the school. I do hope that this redevelopment proposal will have a positive outcome.

Kind regards,
Jessica Tange
History Teacher
Moriah College

I am a parent of Moriah College students and am writing in support of the proposed upgrade to the facilities of Moriah College. The proposal takes into account the:
a. Required updates to provide quality educational facilities, whilst maximising opportunities for spatial resources and recreational spaces for students;
b. The proposal recognises and adapts to the changes in learning to create an agile and adept study centre and collaborative spaces;
c. The proposal responds to the needs of a growing population and will be able to cater to the educational needs of increasing student numbers;
d. Improved pedestrian and vehicular connections to the campus, benefiting students as well as local surrounding neighbours;
e. The Green Travel Plan encourages greater use of public transport and other modes of transport and will create a modal shift. This will benefit surrounding neighbours;
f. The proposal is sensitive to the surrounding neighbours, and this is reflected in the location of the main school entrance as well as new and upgraded facilities, as well as proposed introduction of additional 'ring road' and the upgrades of the Queens Park/ York Rd and York Rd/ Baronga Ave intersections;
g. The relocation of the school entrance provides a greater connection between Queens Park and the campus; and
h. The proposal responds to the needs of the wider community and the creation of a new community forum at Baronga Avenue demonstrates this.

The continuous development of the school is critical to meet the needs of the Jewish community. The school development plans carefully consider the interests and impact on neighbours and will result in an overall improvement of traffic flow in the area.