At least one person in the written submission is of the belief that this is what the draft DPA means to their street and indeed the entire neighbourhood.
Let me please reassure everyone, or at least put my perspective on this argument.
As we all know there is very little development that fits this profile. This is not an indication that having the ability to develop to a particular formula is not going to encourage immediate and wholesale change to an area.
If you believe that this is what the current proposals will trigger you should not have purchased your current house because it was ripe back then for wholesale change, change that did not occur.
The other thing we need to be conscious of is the majority of the area will be Residential, still 2 storey and down from 350 m2 to 300 m2 per house. Most of any redevelopment that will occur in this zone will be not the “developers” we all criticize as profit hungry and not concerned about what impact they make on the street. They will be the mums and dads that own the property in your street. They will be you and me.
As I noted in an earlier blog post in this series the “developers” we all fear will be restricted in that they will not wait forever to purchase enough adjacent blocks to squeeze the most profit out of your street. This will severely restrict the chances of 3 storeys in the Residential Zone as the third storey is not possible until the land size exceeds 5,000 m2.
They will also be restricted in the regeneration zones because of the need to purchase multiple properties and they don’t have the time to wait if they are looking to maximize profits. It is the institutions that will be in a position to make immediate impact if they have (as they do) already purchased properties on the periphery of theirs.
They are the ones that have the potential too to maximize. So if you live next to an aged care complex then it is far to be concerned. If you don’t please do not panic. See it for what it is.
And of course, what it is needs a lot more work as I have indicated in the remainder f this series of blog posts.
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