Moriah College Redevelopment

This is an excellent redevelopment plan. It offers balance and consideration to the local community (including addressing traffic concerns) whilst allowing fantastic opportunity and growth for the school. The plan is much needed for the school and visually pleasing!

Buildings of this size shouldn’t be put up near the parklands and the traffic issues created by the school (and weekend sport activities) are already major and this will make them worse. Parks are critical for the community and this will negatively impact both queens and centennial park.

I am working for college. this project lead to student new height. please allow Moriah college to do this project.

The Moriah College high school building has been standing in it's current form for many years with little to no extensions / upgrades.
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.

SUMMARY
Currently Moriah College is underutilised by about 14%. That should be the baseline used for environmental impact not the maximum potential usage listed in the redevelopment documentation. Using the maximum current capacity as a baseline gives a very distorted view of what the local community could experience from the redevelopment of Moriah College.
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If the numbers in the document SEARs Request Moriah College 20 June 2019 are consistent with the rest of the Moriah College Redevelopment documentation, then those documents are incomplete and misleading. Subsequently the planning for the impact on the local community from increase in staff and students Moriah College numbers will not be accurate. What the local community experience in shared facilities of transport infrastructure and the parkland of Queens Park is not based on current theoretical maximum capacity of Moriah College but actual staff and student numbers.

The population increase of Moriah College due to redevelopment could be about 600 staff and students not the 340 students and an unknown number of staff listed in the submission document SEARs Request Moriah College 20 June 2019. The student numbers could increase by about 40% and not the 20% listed in that document. Moriah College like any other teaching institution would probably have a considerable number of volunteers, their numbers are not listed and could not be established.

The proposed redevelopment will impact my local community significantly more than what is documented. The negative impacts to adjacent roads, parking facilities and use of the parkland where I live in Queens Park will be far greater than expected.

See attachment Notes_for_Moriah_College_Redevelopment _20191211
for supporting material

I’m in favour of the plans and have no further comments

Moriah is a community school that provides so much for both the Jewish and non Jewish community. Being a community means being on the one campus. Learning from each other.

The Moriah College has outgrown its site and is responsible for grid-lock congestion in the morning at school drop-off time and again in the afternoon. The streets travelling north (Denison Road, Alt Street, Newland Street and Bourke Street) are clogged with traffic and residents of Queens Park find it impossible to move around and access their driveways.
Over my 25 years living in Queens Park, Moriah College has continually undertaken to the community to limit their growth, restrict teacher and Yr12 parking and combat the traffic. All of these undertakings are ignored by the College.
We are not against the college, however for it to grow in size, Queens Park should be isolated from school traffic. The school should be forced to use York Road only and the suburb of Queens Park should be strictly for local resident traffic only.

Moriah college needs new learning space. The proposal improves and modernises the facilities to make them world class allowing Australia to better compete in the global study marketplace.

Educational needs are all evolving and a school cannot stay in outdated facilities.

I am in favour of Moriah's proposal to upgrade facilities as I believe it will maximise spatial resources and leverage more opportunities for students to enjoy green, open spaces. As well, the the relocation of the main entry will reduce potential impact for neighbours.

• Traffic congestion is already a major problem particularly between 7:30am and 9:30am and later in the afternoon. There is an almost continuous flow of traffic blocking local streets at peak times generated by student drop-offs and pick-ups.
• Moriah College has failed to manage its own Transport, Traffic and 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.
• Moriah College night-time events are frequent, attract significant numbers of people and use local streets as a parking lot. This will only get worse for residents if this proposal goes ahead.
• Pedestrian safety risks and general road safety risks will escalate as a result of the increased traffic in local streets.
• Pollution in our local streets will increase due to more traffic and air quality will reduce.
• The streets of Queens Park are becoming ‘traffic sewers’, which is impacting friendly interaction between neighbours, resulting in a decreased sense of well-being, connectedness and security.
• The visual amenity of Queens Park will be adversely impacted by the bulk of the proposed buildings.
• Three weeks is grossly inadequate for informed responses to the proposal, which contains nearly 1,600 pages of complicated text and diagrams – more time is needed.
• The ripple 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.
• The ‘Near Neighbour Letter Catchment’ was in adequate and needs to be significantly expanded so that all impacted neighbours are aware of Moriah’s intentions.
• The 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.

• Traffic congestion is already a major problem particularly between 7:30am and 9:30am and later in the afternoon. There is an almost continuous flow of traffic blocking local streets at peak times generated by student drop-offs and pick-ups.
• Moriah College has failed to manage its own Transport, Traffic and 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.
• Moriah College night-time events are frequent, attract significant numbers of people and use local streets as a parking lot. This will only get worse for residents if this proposal goes ahead.
• Pedestrian safety risks and general road safety risks will escalate as a result of the increased traffic in local streets.
• Pollution in our local streets will increase due to more traffic and air quality will reduce.
• The streets of Queens Park are becoming ‘traffic sewers’, which is impacting friendly interaction between neighbours, resulting in a decreased sense of well-being, connectedness and security.
• The visual amenity of Queens Park will be adversely impacted by the bulk of the proposed buildings.
• Three weeks is grossly inadequate for informed responses to the proposal, which contains nearly 1,600 pages of complicated text and diagrams – more time is needed.
• The ripple 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.
• The ‘Near Neighbour Letter Catchment’ was in adequate and needs to be significantly expanded so that all impacted neighbours are aware of Moriah’s intentions.
• The 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.

This project will create a state of the art learning facility for our community school. It will also alleviate the current traffic congestion problem that parents and resident are facing. It will allow our campus to grow and meet the growing number of student enrolments. This is not only a school, it is a community and as such community events, ceremonies and celebrations are held on the school grounds,

I am in support of the submission.
The proposal develops an important learning facility for numerous current and future students whose learning will ultimately benefit the larger community in years to come.
Development of educational facilities should be encouraged.

I think it is a wonderful project and hope it goes ahead!

Dear Minister Stokes

Moriah College Redevelopment: Project 14741

We all want the best schools, the best for our own children and those of others, the best schools whether public or private. Of course we do. Perhaps the expansion requested by Moriah College will achieve better educational outcomes for the school’s pupils, and under normal circumstances, no one would want to deny that. But these are not normal circumstances. The outcomes will extract a further cost to the Queens Park community.

Much has already been given to the College by State, Council and the community. Starting in the 1980s when the College was allowed land belonging to Queens Park, and a pupil intake of 300 or so, it has expanded incrementally. Extra land and buildings have been made available, increased pupil numbers allowed, and permission for a preschool facility granted. The College has reached a current intake of 1680 students, way in advance of its initial allocation, and all in only 35 years.

Now we are being asked to believe that the facilities are not good enough, green spaces are insufficient, buildings unsafe because they are dated and not designed for contemporary education.

In addition, the upgrade is said to need more students, another 17% over time.

Even at present pupil levels, the tight access to the area is not suitable for the drop-off and pick-up of more than 2000 people crammed into a few hours each day. However you might juggle with entrances, car parks and building configurations, you will not change the congestion. A quagmire of vehicles has been created, jostling for room in the busiest times of morning and afternoon, when we all want to use the roads. Everyone knows what it’s like. The streets near the school are deluged by buses and parked cars of students, staff and parents. Residents do not have a chance. It can’t or shouldn’t be allowed to get worse.

But worse it will get.

No one believes that this is the last request. At some time in the future, requests will be made for more pupils, and more high-rise buildings – a precedent will have been set if the present application is granted.

Moriah College realises that managing access to the school is a major problem: it highlights it in its leaflet to the community of 25 November 2019. It states that improving traffic flow along Queens Park Road is a key objective of the proposal, but it is also just as great a problem along Baronga Avenue and York Road. To date, every expansion has made the situation worse, and this request will be no different.

And the result of the expansion on the community? Traffic congestion will become greater still, and our lives will be the poorer with increased air pollution and stress.

So, I submit, the College should rethink this development, consider what it has already achieved, be satisfied with keeping to its present size, and drop all unreasonable ambitions to expand further. And I say to you as Minister of Planning and Public Spaces, please heed the concerns of residents of Queens Park, and the concerns of adjacent communities in Randwick and Woollahra, and refuse this application.

Grahame Jackson
24 Alt Street

I strongly object to the proposed redevelopment of Moriah College. The CURRENT facility is already overwhelming the neighbourhood of Queens Park. Traffic at school opening and closing times is heavily congested, gridlocking the quiet back streets of Queens Park. Students and staff ALREADY fail to adhere to the schools own undertaking preventing students and staff from parking in the surrounding streets and within Centennial Park. There should ALREADY be traffic management plans in place at peak times. There should ALREADY be timed parking restrictions in place on ALL surrounding streets in the Queens Park area and within Centennial Park. The proposed redevelopment will only increase traffic flow and demand for parking in an area that is ALREADY unable to cope. If the school needs to expand it should look for a different site better able to cope with its impact on local community.

This redevelopment will help our community grow and provide an amazing space for our children to learn.

Moriah is a wonderful community asset offering a wide ranging academic and emotional education. The new project will allow further development.
The Eastern suburbs is short of government school places and needs private school places

I am in complete support of any project that will improve education facilities. As a frequent user of the roads in this area, particularly during peak school and commuting times, I do not see how a phased increase in school occupancy will have any impact on the surrounding traffic. I am of the understanding that sufficient neighborhood consultation has occurred and the proposal clearly addresses congestion concerns.
I would like to think that all unnecessary agendas would be put aside and the community could allow this ambitious project to proceed.