Sport and Wellbeing Centre, Roseville College

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We are a close neighbour of the College and have enjoyed living in the area for over 40 years. How well we recall the assurances from Kuring-Gai council in the 1980’s and 1990’s that the College would not be permitted unlimited expansion in the Roseville neighbourhood. Yet once again the college is proposing a significant expansion in their facility.

Our concerns are
1. Rezoning from Heritage residential to Education.
2. Traffic and Parking congestion & noise during and after construction.
3. A large and dominant building and busy facility in a residential area.

Rezoning - College Footprint Expansion
We object to the continued expansion of the college up and down Bancroft street. Already the college has acquired and is using what were residential homes as school facilities. These may or may not have been rezoned Education. We object to further expansion of the school footprint and the destruction of the heritage house, 37 Bancroft Ave) and the associated change in zoning from residential to Education.

Traffic and Street Parking
Should this development proposal proceed during the construction phase significant additional “tradie” traffic and parking will crowd into narrow (Victoria Ave) and busy streets. For example during the Victoria Ave apartment construction there was a noticeable influx of utilities parked on the surrounding streets. No doubt this expansion of the college will attract additional students and parents resulting in an increase in traffic congestion, noise and parking. It is already chaotic and somewhat unsafe at school drop-off and pickup times for students, parents and locals.
Further we object to any proposal that introduces resident only parking scheme from a visitor convenience and cost of enforcing perspective.

Imposing building which changes the streetscape
The proposed Wellness Centre is large and high by comparison with surrounding residential properties and out of keeping with the federation architecture that is meant to be preserved in the Heritage Conservation Area.

I am writing to object to the proposed development. SDD-9912. My objections are as follows:

I object to the demolition of 37 Bancroft Ave Roseville. This house is typical of the federation era and is consistent with others in Victoria St, Bancroft Ave, Lord St and Roseville Ave. The house is part of a Heritage Conservation Area and demolishing it would diminish the whole area. It should not be rezoned from R2 residential or be used a large-scale educational sports centre.

I object to the size, bulk and appearance of the proposed SWELL Centre. It is out of scale with the homes in the area and the large unbroken facade will negatively impact the prevalent heritage streetscape, houses and gardens of Roseville.

Regards
ADM

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I welcome the opportunity to support this development. The attached document gives the reasons for my support.

1. A threat to the Roseville Heritage Conservation area Zoned R2.
2. The proposed building is totally out of scale in relation to Bancroft Avenue and Roseville in general.
3. The purpose of this building will increase traffic to the area, particularly at weekends, with inter schhool competitions.

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Ku-ring-gai's Council's concerns have been detailed within the attachment. In short, there are significant concerns in relation to planning (bulk, scale and setbacks - non-compliance with FSR and height devlepment standards), heritage impacts (including the demolition of a contributory item in a heritage conservation area), landscaping (loss of significant tree) and engineering concerns. As a result of the impacts there development should be refused.

TfNSW response Roseville College New Sport and Wellbeing Centre SSD 9912

Please find attached EES comments

EPA no interest letter attached.

Please see the attached response