State Significant Development
Multi-Trades and Digital Technology Hub at TAFE Meadowbank
City of Ryde
Current Status: Determination
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The Multi-Trades and Digital Technology Hub at Meadowbank TAFE (SSD-10349) is located within the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct.
A separate application within the precinct for the Meadowbank Education and Employment Precinct Schools Project (SSD-9343) was determined on 21 May 2020. See the project application page for details.
The Greater Sydney Commission has prepared a preliminary Masterplan for the precinct. Visit the precinct website for details
Construction of a multi-trades and digital technology hub at TAFE Meadowbank, including various learning spaces, workshop areas, digitally enabled spaces, seminar rooms and industry engagement spaces, and associated works.
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Submissions
HERITAGE COUNCIL OF NSW
Comment
HERITAGE COUNCIL OF NSW
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Zhi Lim
Support
Zhi Lim
Message
Environment, Energy and Sustainability Group of DPIE
Comment
Environment, Energy and Sustainability Group of DPIE
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Comment
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Hermitage Road Owners Precinct
Comment
Hermitage Road Owners Precinct
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May I say that I was impressed with the preliminary Master Plan but as I indicated I believe there may be some items that should be included that would cover the Owners requirements and improve the Plan overall.
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David Smith
Object
David Smith
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Additionally for the tafe the parking takes into consideration the current parking spaces, but not the places displaced from the new build of the schools. Neither does it allow for the growth of numbers.
The area bound by Bowden Street to the East; the trainline to the West; Constitution Road to the South and Victoria Road to the North will be flooded with pedestrians, bikes and vehicle traffic for the primary school; high school; TAFE and employees.
The area currently forms a rat run. Particularly with the changes from Bowden street driving traffic through forsyth St. The roads are dangerous and accidents requiring emergency vehicles (eg paramedics) often occur. As part of a rat run, traffic speeds through and includes a mix of heavy vehicles, light industry vehicles, P plate TAFE students, petrol tankers, construction vehicles. Adding to that school children is a high risk
Every effort must be made to eliminate the current traffic from passing through this area, ie the only traffic should be that requiring access to the school/TAFE.
Suggestions include turning Forsyth St into a Cul-de-sac.
Reinstate the Right Hand turn from Bowden onto Victoria Road (going West)
Slow/eliminate traffic from Macpherson, eg no traffic turning right into Macpherson Street from Bowden
The Meadowbank precinct, with excessive overdevelopment, was developed with no thought for traffic. Please ensure safety is the forefront of any decisions made. As Ryde Council have advised via written communication there are ‘not enough serious accidents’ to fix current dangerous intersections (eg Macpherson St/See St and crossing at end of See St near Constitution Rd) please ensure Greater Sydney Planning takes responsibility and fixes the issues.
The See St/McPherson/Forsyth intersection will only increase in danger if access from Forsyth St into Victoria Rd continues
Additionally the bust stop on Victoria Rd city bound opposite Forsyth St will encourage children to run across Victoria rd to access Forsyth st I suggest it be moved a block to encourage use of the Bowden st lights
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The area currently forms a rat run. The roads are dangerous and accidents requiring emergency vehicles (eg paramedics) often occur. As part of a rat run, traffic speeds through and includes a mix of heavy vehicles, light industry vehicles, P plate TAFE students, petrol tankers, construction vehicles.
Every effort must be made to eliminate the current traffic from passing through this area, ie the only traffic should be that requiring access to the school/TAFE. No ratrun traffic should have access to the streets.
Suggestions include turning Forsyth St into a Cul-de-sac.
Reinstate the Right Hand turn from Bowden onto Victoria Road (going West)
Slow/eliminate traffic from Macpherson, eg no traffic turning right into Macpherson Street from Bowden
Traffic calming devices to slow all traffic down and eliminate the area from being attractive as a bypass/connecting road to Victoria Road and Church St.
The Meadowbank precinct, with excessive overdevelopment, was developed with no thought for traffic. Please ensure safety is the forefront of any decisions made. As Ryde Council have advised via written communication there are ‘not enough serious accidents’ to fix current dangerous intersections (eg Macpherson St/See St and crossing at end of See St near Constitution Rd) please ensure Greater Sydney Planning takes responsibility and fixes the issues.
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My main concerns are regarding parking and safety. First, the proposed level of parking drastically underestimates the need. Reading the "Transport and Accessibility Impact Assessment (SSD 18_9343)", it appears the parking study (table 3.5) was done during TAFE holidays and DRASTICALLY underestimates the current level of parking usage in surrounding areas. Our street (Forsyth St) in particular is ALWAYS full during the work week, whereas the study suggests it is only at ~60% most of the time. This is a major issue for current residents and visitors, and will only be made worse if the new precinct does not adequately cater for more cars.
Second, the proposed use of MacPherson St for bus drop offs is a concern. Visibility on this street for pedestrians is already an issue, in addition to regular speeding traffic. I've narrowly avoided a number of collisions around the See St/MacPherson St/Forsyth St area, and buses would only make this worse.
Third, I believe there was a proposal to close of Forsyth St at the Victoria Rd end. I think this would help reduce the use of the street as a 'rat run', improving safety for the many young families that live on the street.
Lastly, the suggestion that local resident's driveways could be used for pick up/drop off of students (as noted in the final point on page 70 of the Transport and Accessibility Impact Assessment (SSD 18_9343)) seems both unsafe and unfair for local residents. We already have issues with people parking over our driveways and would hope this would not be made worse as a result of the new precinct.
Overall I am excited about the increase in green space and improved pedestrian access, but hope the the above concerns may be addressed as part of the final plan.
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Just wanted to say that I am generally very supportive of the plans and hope that the spaces are heavily utilised by the local community.
I love that canopy cover is a focus, and I hope that encouraging biodiversity is a part of this.
I live on Forsyth St, and am concerned about the street becoming even more of a thoroughfare/ car park than it is currently. It is used by TAFE students and local businesses for parking, and by general traffic that can no longer turn right into Victoria road southbound from Bowden street as an alternative route. Ideally the street would not be used in this way- especially by the extra couple of thousand people that will be travelling to the school/TAFE site both while under construction and once it is running. One solution many residents would support is blocking the road access along Victoria Rd and becoming a cul-de-sac.
As a pedestrian I am also concerned about the speed of cars down macpherson st and the lack of crossings and visual range to see if cars are coming due to parked trucks and cars. The See st/macpherson st intersection is particularly dangerous and accidents will be increasingly likely to happen with increased foot and road traffic. Having busses stopping along this stretch of road would make it even more congested and busy, with worse visual range. This would be a dangerous place for school bus stops, for pedestrians and vehicles alike.
While the relevant planners may be tempted to write traffic and parking concerns off as "whining residents", this is a real, daily stress for us now (both for practical reasons such as access to our houses, litter from the users of our street, noise, smoking etc) and as a safety issue for ourselves and the many young children who live and play on the street. We can see this burden becoming significantly greater with the lack of parking and huge increase in access demands for the planned precinct.
Besides these concerns, I would hope that the precinct can grow sustainably and organically with genuine respect for the local residents.
Thank you for taking the time to consult the community- I hope there will be genuine changes to the plans based on our feedback.
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I tried to get my submission off as told to do on Sat by Mr Greg Woodhams who I thought was of great importance in regard to this matter. He told myself and other residents in Forsyth Street to go on Greater.Sydney/project/meadowbank and lodge our submission and at no time were we given a deadline. I didn’t even know this info session was on till I got home late on Sat and made it there at 5pm( a joke in itself) . I didn’t get the flyer that this was on. There was a problem with your server and hence in frustration my submission was unable to go thru along with many other residents.
My neighbour advised my that we could send this one off to you by midnight tonight. I rallied the street and hopefully they will all petition their concerns. To be honest with you, I don’t think we as residents are being given a fair go, or enough time to lodge our concerns. The general consensis is that this is just a big rush job.
Every effort needs to be made to ease the severe traffic congestion our area is faced with 24/7 365 days a year now, even before all this future school and tafe development is started.
Over development in the area along with the lack of adequate traffic infrastructure is already choking us, NO PARKING,QUEUES AT THE END OF OUR STREET FORSYTH STREET NOW AND MANY OTHERS.Since the no right turn has been brought in from Bowden to Vic Road, our Street Forsyth Street has become a rally track for ALL traffic coming from the North which has compounded the problems. I have nearly been knocked over on numerous occassions and Im sorry but if as we have been told in the past there needs to be fatalities before anything of use can be done; that day is coming much closer. There have already been more accidents and the noise is horendous and only going to get much worse.
Our quality of life is getting terrible, our anxiety and depression too. The right turn needs to be reinstated and making Forsyth Street a Cul-de-sac at the Victoria Road end would be a good start . Our street with all the heritage listed cottages have a lot of young families in it thats kids walk the streets with their families going to schools and not feeling safe on the streets and crossing roads.
The bus stop for drop off and pick up of students we have now been told is proposed across the road from our house on the short strip of road in front of the substation in Macpherson Street!Really!!
Conjestion , noise and safety are of paramount importance to us. The sub had transformers blow up a couple of years ago with flying heavy porcelain pieces shrouding our property and nearly hitting me in my garden. I couldhave died..
For god sake let common sense prevail! That is a black spot already and you would be crazy to put it there . It should be positioned along the front of the proposed schools in Rhode Street. That is a long stretch of Road and where it should be placed..
So to sum up there ARE alot of residents terribly concerned about what is going on and the lack of community consultation. I am not one for getting so involved in this but I think we really have no alternative but to get the media involved if communication isn’t improved and our suggestions taken seriously and implemented.
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I understand I wasn’t the only contributor who had technical issues when trying to make a submission yesterday. There is some confusion regarding the necessity to prepare three submissions – where was this requirement in the written instructions? I believe one neighbour completed a questionnaire which I haven’t come across????
I strongly suggest that a second stage consultation process be put in place. I think the communication regarding the recent meetings was poor. This is a large, and critical development for my local area – a development which will have a major impact on the residents, the local natural environment and the way of living for local residents – many residents have been here in excess of 20 years. We have been subjected to uncontrolled development, a huge increase in population and traffic, and no supporting infrastructure - and a resultant fall in our quality of enjoyment of our local area. I know residents who protested to local government and who have now moved interstate because of the increased traffic and the problems and dangers the traffic and lack of infrastructure has caused to their family. This really concerns me. I have trouble crossing the street each morning to get to the train station to catch a very overcrowded train. I have made quite a few submissions to council regarding development. I am not against development of this area. but I am very concerned about the lack of planning and the lack of concern the increase in population is having on residents.
I didn’t attend the session on Wed 6 Nov – I was working – I work for the courts and it was a long day.
As an aside - it delights me that the TAFE college attracts lots of native birds. What happens when the building starts and the native birds’ nests and habitats are disturbed….there is a single Grand Parrot that eats each evening from a tree on See Street. Has anyone else noticed this?
It would be appreciated if an meeting be organised so the residents could voice their concerns. My concern is primarily environmental, and secondly but equally importantly, safety for pedestrians and then overcrowding – in the one area we have a 90 seat child care centre, a proposed primary school and high school and TAFE College. So we have 0-6 year olds with prams and distracted parents, mixing with boisterous primary school children and pre-teens and hormonal 15-20 year old drivers. Lots of energy, lots of cars and lots of racing and wheelies…..and litter.
We need to control of the traffic, and channel and slow the traffic. Bowden street is a racing track, as is McPherson and See Streets and Constitution Road. What if McPherson Street was closed at Bowden Street, or closed on Mcpherson Street at the corner of Mcpherson Lane and Mcpherson Street? Just thoughts.
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In regard to the attached article from 2007. Please have a read and pay much attention to tafe parking spots and the problems we had12 years ago.From what we have seen parking spaces in tafe and the new schools are miniscule and much less than were there back in 2007!! BACKWARDS. NOT HAPPY
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Before any of this future development commences you need to address the problems we are already faced with on a daily basis.
Reinstate right turn onto Victoria Road from Bowden Street. Overflow of that traffic is presently funnelled into Macpherson then down Forsyth.
Cul-de-sac at the end of Forsyth Street is essential in reducing conjestion and the daily rat runs we have here and make our homes a safer place to live.
Bus stops in front of the substation in Macpherson Street is rediculous. Dangerous and terribly busy as it is. Bad idea. You cant even cross the road as it is. Common sense should prevail and have the kids dropped off in Rhodes Street in front of the schools. That is a long stretch of Road and a bus bay should be implemented there.
My bedroom is on the cnr of Forsyth and Macpherson. The noise now is very bad. I am a uni student and my anxiety levels have been elevated to extreme already with the daily traffic and noise, semis,trucks,and other heavy vehicles.You want to put bus stops across the road as well.Pathetic and a bad decision
Transport for NSW (incorporating RMS and Sydney Trains)
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Transport for NSW (incorporating RMS and Sydney Trains)
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Thanks for the opportunity of reviewing this proposal. Please find attached our submission.
kind regards,
Billy