10/10/23

Chief Executive Officer
City of Stirling
PO Box 1533, Osborne Park, WA, 6916
development@stirling.wa.gov.au
To the Chief Executive Officer

RE: Planning Submission DA23/0883 at Lot 201, House Number 39 Chester Avenue, Dianella WA 6059

I am writing to state our objection to JDAP Submission DA23/0883 and that Council’s Report and JDAP
consider and act upon the items listed below.

DESIGN AND SCALE I/We request Council and JDAP;
Reject this design on the basis of overlooking, overshadowing, inappropriate location, out of scale massing and building envelope, above local height and plot ratio regulations, inaccurate shadow diagrams,
update the traffic assessment that does not consider school start and finish times, and is already on a congested road,
ensure the development be in line with Local Planning regulation of a minimum building form in residential zones of three storeys,
a revised design be in keeping with the neighbourhood's architecture with walk up apartments of maximum three levels, or townhouses with no views over a primary school where "surveillance"; (DRP Meeting; Urbanista JDAP Application) is made possible.

AMENITY I/We request Council and JDAP;
Consider there has been zero community consultation resulting in an unwanted building by surrounding residents and families and that any revised design include community input,
ensure any development does not dissect the neighbourhood with lobbied apartment blocks that stops social interaction, increases crime, and damages existing residences during construction (finbar precedent),
that any development does not destroy the continuity of street frontages,
refer to Peel@3.5million“…there have been many examples where infill developments have been designed inappropriately and resulted in an interference of the existing residential character. It is these less than optimal examples of infill development which create community opposition as the perceived effect is an erosion of the area’s amenity.”

CHILDREN I/We request Council and JDAP;
Brief all adults in the process of this submission of their duty of care to the community, including the safety of children,
ensure that any development be a reduced design with no overlooking and “surveillance” over children,
have the design consider children as the predominant part of the day-time community population and their right to privacy, to be as safe as possible, comfortable at school, and enjoy their childhoods without fear of neighbours’ overlooking and “surveillance”.
consider the right of families to trust their children are comfortable and as safe as can be in the hands of leadership and teachers at their primary school, who under the current design proposal will not have the capacity or resources to prevent overlooking by neighbours,
consider the opposite finbar apartment precedent with direct views of the entrance/exit of the school straight through to the Grand Promenade boundary. And that there are residents who from their balconies watch the children entering and exiting their school. And that no development allows this to happen again,
acknowledgement that an approval of this design sets a precedent that omits and destroys any consideration
of the future of children, and that they will have had a hand in making it so.

Kind regards

South Dianella Community & Friends