PROPERTY News
Residents in Fortitude Valley’s Light Street precinct are fighting a proposed nine-storey development that the local councillor says will make a mockery of the new Valley Neighbourhood Plan if it goes ahead.
The 50-unit development by Drew Group developers is more than twice the maximum height of four storeys for the Rosetta St area as set out in the recently approved Valley Neighbourhood Plan, says local councillor David Hinchliffe. And he adds that if the council approves this development next to residents’ existing two-storey homes, “the Valley Neighbourhood Plan won’t be worth the paper it’s written on”.
“How could council in all conscience approve a development of nine storeys in tiny narrow Rosetta Street when they have only just approved a Neighbourhood Plan with height limits of four storeys for this area? They may as well rip up the plan if they approve this.
“I will be urging my colleagues to oppose this and I will lodge a private objection as a local homeowner,” Cr Hinchliffe said.
Chairman of the Rosetta St body corporate, Ms Wagner Higgins, said: “We are very alarmed at the physical size of this building and the number of apartments which are to be built .
“We’re worried about the increase in local traffic, on-street parking, pedestrian traffic, and the inability for our complex to be “secured” against cars belonging to the new development entering and using our car park facilities.
“We don’t reject the development outright; we just want an outcome that doesn’t adversely affect so many people in our neighbourhood,”
Residents have already lodged an extensive objection to the application criticising a height twice the maximum outlined in the local plan, traffic impacts on Rosetta Street and Prospect Terrace and impact on privacy and overlooking of the adjacent townhouses.
