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Moriah College Redevelopment
Waverley
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Concept Proposal and Stage 1 development application for the redevelopment of the Moriah College senior school campus including the demolition of buildings, construction of new teaching facilities and progressive increase in student enrolments.
Attachments & Resources
Notice of Exhibition (1)
Request for SEARs (4)
SEARs (1)
EIS (33)
Response to Submissions (9)
Agency Advice (3)
Amendments (14)
Additional Information (5)
Recommendation (3)
Determination (4)
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29/06/2023
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Submissions
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Improving traffic flow for everyone, including surrounding neighbours - the neighbours currently complain about the traffic, most of this is caused by not allowing visitors to park near the school or enter the school from all locations. this means that when currently coming to the school and an extra 30minutes to 1 hour is needed I order to park correctly and then walk around half the school to the only entrance that is open. This means that an extra 1/2 hours is needed (and parking taken up!) when visiting the school.
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.
Dinangkur Kundu
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Dinangkur Kundu
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I support the project because the upgrade will improve the sporting and educational opportunities for the children and the community in general. At the moment the run-down facilities are accessed by members of the community other than just the Moriah students e.g. the pool.
I also believe the developments will improve access for people with disabilities to the school.
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Communications from the College to parents consistently address the impact to residents and how to beat minimise intrusions and noise. With our support this will hopefully create a better structure in which to achieve all of the goals stated.
In Support,
Thank you.
John Wineberg
Support
John Wineberg
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The submission has provided for improved traffic flow within the Moore Park Area to ensure student/staff/parent safety and also improves traffic congestion and safety for all nearby residents.
With some 1600 current students the proposal is preparing for known student growth in the near future without any adverse effects on the local residential community.
Very importantly, Moriah College is a very important community member and is always welcoming many communal organisations to utilise their facilities
Sam Espie
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Sam Espie
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I strongly object to this development as a resident of Queens Park for the following reasons:
1. The size, scale and bulk of the buildings overlooking Centennial and Queens park are completely out of keeping with the appearance and amenity of the immediate surrounding heritage open parkland area.
2. The school has, via ongoing development, continually increased the number of students using the space and at some point a hard limit needs to be placed so as to stop this creep and associated pressures placed on the surrounding area by increased student and servicing population at the college.
3. Traffic congestion is already a major problem particularly between 7:30am and 9:30am and later in the afternoons. There is an almost continuous flow of traffic blocking local streets at peak times generated by student drop-offs and pick-ups particularly in areas where it is agreed they will not occur.
4. Moriah College has failed to manage its own Transport, Traffic & Parking Plan (TTPP) for a long time, evidenced by the number of students, parents and staff vehicles parking daily in local streets contrary to its own TTPP.
5. Moriah College night-time events are frequent, attract large numbers of people and use local streets for parking. This will only worsen for residents if this proposal is approved.
6. Pedestrian safety risks and general road safety risks will escalate as a result of the increased traffic in local streets.
7. Noise and air pollution in our local streets will increase due to more traffic and people, and as a result, noise will increase and air quality will reduce.
8. The streets of Queens Park are becoming ‘traffic sewers’ which is impacting friendly interaction between neighbours, resulting in a decreased sense of well-being,
community, connectedness and security.
9. The visual amenity of Queens Park and Centennial Park will be adversely impacted by the sheer size of the proposed new buildings.
10. 3 weeks, especially in the busy lead up to end of year for local residents, is grossly inadequate for informed responses to the proposal, which contains nearly 1600
pages of complicated text and diagrams – more time is needed.
11. The ripple-on effect of the increase in traffic, congestion and pollution will extend to many residents who have not been notified of the proposal and who deserve the
right to be informed and to comment.
12. The ‘Near Neighbour Letter Catchment’ was inadequate and needs to be significantly expanded so that all impacted neighbours are aware of Moriah’s intentions.
13. Queens Park residents would like Waverley Council to conduct their own independent and public traffic survey so that all stakeholders can better understand
the impact.
14. The school has effectively taken ownership of the traffic flow and footpath on Baronga Avenue which is nearly impassable for both traffic and pedestrians when school dropoff and pickup vehicles, buses or students or security guards or faculty are using it. If the entrance is reoriented here this problem will significantly worsen. This is an important public thoroughfare and should be treated as such.
Andrew Kirk
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Andrew Kirk
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Parking is taken up in a wide area of Queens Park because of year 12 students driving to school and parking nearby.
Given that the school has not acted as a constructive, participating member of the local community, the expectation is that this will only deteriorate if it expands.
I request that the application to expand be denied.
Thank you
RYAN HOFFMAN
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Traffic congestion is an issue for local residents between the hours of 7:30am to 9:30am and later during afternoon pick up times for the school. Although the school states that collections are made on the internal road, within the school premises, obviously in order to access this road, all cars must utilise the main roads to access the school grounds.
There was a statement from the school suggesting that bicycle use by students would be promoted, given the main roads leading to the school grounds, the age of the students and the traffic congestion already, this would appear a dangerous if not unlikely proposal.
The visual amenity of the local neighbourhoods of Queens Park and Centennial Park will be adversely impacted by a poorly considered, out of place design and scale of this development.
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The plans are designed to assist the residents that live in close proximity by moving the main entrance away from their front doors and relocate to the back of the building which fronts onto Queens Park and Centennial Park. Noise associated with the school will be reduced for them
There are also plans to build another internal ring road - again this will have a positive impact of reducing traffic congestion particularly in the mornings and afternoons. The proposed upgrades of intersections on York, Baronga and Queens Park Rd will provide sustainable solutions to the traffic flow.
The plan is designed in stages over the next 15 years - I feel the College should be commended for the thought and effort put into this plan - considering not just the Moriah community but also the whole local community
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Nat Rubinstein
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Nat Rubinstein
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The World Economic Forum identified some of the top skills required for the workplace in 2020. Creativity has been identified as the 3rd most important skill. In order to help our children develop these important skills we need to ensure our schools have the infrastructure and facilities to support them.
Learning spaces which promote and encourage innovative learning supported by clever technology is a necessity. The proposed upgrades aim to create these much needed spaces
Critical thinking and coordination with others are also identified in the 10 most important skills to have therefore I am very supportive of Moriah wanting to build more spaces to foster collaborative knowledge sharing and greater social interaction.
We live in areas which are overdeveloped. My garden in North Bondi is very small and we don't have a huge amount of park space within walking distance. Children spend a significant time of their childhood at school and for them to have access to green open spaces where they can enjoy, play sport and get fresh air is incredibly important. I can't offer my children big green open spaces so I am very grateful to know they have access to such spaces to enjoy and be active.
Living in Nancy Street North Bondi – parents of school children race up and down our narrow road to drop off / pick up from Rose Bay high School. They often don't give way to traffic coming down the street and I have had my car mirror smashed by one of the parents driving way too fast. I have tried to address these issues with Rose Bay high school a number of times as have a number of people on our street and the response is ... "our hands are tied"... totally unsatisfactory!
Moriah is looking for and actively addressing traffic conditions to make it easier for neighbours and allowing them to enjoy their neighbourhood. I think those neighbours NOT in support of this development should come and stand on my street on a school day for morning drop off and pick up. It will strongly demonstrate how nice it is to have school that actually cares about its surroundings.
My sons also use the school for swimming and tennis run by external operators. It is fantastic to have a place which we can use for other important activities outside of school hours and any redevelopment to grow the infrastructure which can be used for these purposes is incredibly important!
I am a big supportive of the proposed redevelopment and will be very disappointed if this great initiative from the school cannot be achieved.
Kind regards
Nat Rubinstein
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• 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
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Claire Brandenburger
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Claire Brandenburger
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Shelley Sher
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Shelley Sher
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I have noticed that many public schools around the Eastern Suburbs have had extensive works carried out in order to upgrade their facilities this includes but it not limited to my local public high school, Rose Bay as well as Bellevue Hill primary and Rose Bay primary to name a few.
Moriah is asking for the same opportunities to be able to upgrade and update their offering.
It is believed that the upgrade will allow for a further 250 odd students to attend the school campus from preschool to year 12. I know that the local public high schools and some of the public primary schools are under huge strain with the number of students looking for places. Moriah belong able to offer additional places will take some pressure off the need for additional places in other schools.
In the upgrade, Moriah is proposing to add a new internal ring road within the high school which will improve traffic flow for everyone including surrounding neighbours.
Thank you for taking the time to review my submission.
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Organizing flow of traffic to be beneficial for all those in area
It is a gradual increase in students, therefore the effect on traffic is extremely minimal if at all given new internal roads
Important community institution that requires growth