Last chance to have your say on former Tigers club development

Architect drawing of Rozelle Towers current DADear Resident,

Submissions on the development application close 5pm Friday 4 December 2015 so please make sure you have your say.

The developer is back with a new proposal for two towers of eight and twelve storeys, 135 apartments, 369 car spaces, large retail area, a proposed pedestrian bridge over Victoria Road. There is also space for the leagues club, but at market rent!

It is yet another over-development of the site that will lead to traffic gridlock, ruin our high street retail and monster the surrounding residents. 

The developer has already taken the application to the Land and Environment Court where it will be determined early next year. 

Your submission to Leichhardt Council is important. It will demonstrate to the Court the strong feeling that exists in the community about this excessive development.

All submissions will be delivered to Council before the deadline. You can find more information on Council's website. 

I have been working for close to 10 years to ensure that we have appropriate and sustainable development on this site, and I thank all of you who have worked so hard to protect what is special about our community. 

Yours sincerely,

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Jamie Parker MP
Member for Balmain

Manager of Assessments
Leichhardt Council
PO Box 45
Leichhardt NSW 2040

Submission: D/2015/438 138-152 Victoria Road ROZELLE

I write to outline my strong opposition to the latest proposal for the redevelopment of the former Balmain Leagues Club site.

There remains an opportunity to clean up the current eye sore, and have a reasonable development of the site but the current proposal cannot be supported for the following reasons:

  • The eight and twelve storey towers are completely out of proportion with the surrounding pattern of development in Rozelle.
  • Surrounding residences and businesses will have unacceptable impacts from overshadowing and overlooking.
  • The enormous scale of the retail component (including supermarket) and 135 apartments will generate traffic volumes that will overwhelm local streets and threaten our main street businesses.
  • There is no guarantee that Balmain Leagues Club will return to the site.
  • There is no guarantee the pedestrian bridge will be constructed.

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  • Michele Studd
    signed 2015-12-02 20:05:23 +1100
  • Wayne O'Mara
    signed 2015-12-02 19:37:30 +1100
    completely out of proportion for surrounding residential area.

    local streets will not handle traffic volumes generated by development
  • Nicholas Burrell
    signed 2015-12-02 17:34:28 +1100
    The towers are still too tall. Given the site gradient, 8 floors for each tower above the basic structure should be the limit.
  • Robyn Plaister
    signed 2015-12-02 17:17:50 +1100
    I am concerned with a larger number of vehicles accessing the roads around this site. Already if I take my car out during the day I cannot get a park in my street or close surrounding streets due to business owners/workers and those accessing city buses using these streets as all day free parking. Increasing the vehicle load on the streets near to the Balmain Leagues Club site will only exacerbate this problem.

    Also trying to get access from Matilda St to Balmain Rd can be very dangerous due to the high number of vehicles already using Balmain Rd/Darling St. Providing a shopping Centre will only attract more people visiting this domain especially on Saturdays where there is high traffic due to Orange Grove Markets, sporting fixtures in Callan Park and Rozelle Markets. There is not adequate parking provided now or in the proposal to account for the increased need.

    I am totally opposed to this proposal of 8-12 storeys let alone more than that.

    Robyn Plaister
  • Bethany Geddes
    signed 2015-12-02 14:27:08 +1100
  • Julian Harris
    signed 2015-12-02 14:09:23 +1100
  • Jeffrey Clark
    signed 2015-12-02 13:25:36 +1100
    It is actually insulting to the community that the developers have yet again resubmitted a flawed application that has been rejected time and time again. These people are not fit to develop this site. If they cannot propose a more suitable development then they should pack up their bags once and for all.
  • Camilla Schippa
    signed 2015-12-02 12:10:59 +1100
  • Sonia Legge
    signed 2015-12-02 12:02:53 +1100
  • Eshref Eyiam
    signed 2015-12-02 11:51:20 +1100
    please don’t destroy Rozelle.
  • Joshua Honigstock
    signed 2015-12-02 11:40:56 +1100
  • Bernetta Lee
    signed 2015-12-02 11:25:08 +1100
  • Christopher Roberts
    signed 2015-12-01 23:07:59 +1100
  • Keir Duncan
    signed 2015-12-01 20:17:05 +1100
    More traffic disruption on Victoria Road has to be avoided.
  • Jenny Cooper
    signed 2015-12-01 11:16:22 +1100
    Concerned about the traffic issues on Victoria Road due to the huge scale development of this site. Also, retail businesses in the area are already struggling, the area does not need more empty shopfronts.
  • Joy Oliver
    signed 2015-12-01 09:13:34 +1100
    This is a massive over development of the site. A more sensible development will enhance Darling Street. Is there consideration for affordable housing being made available?
  • Lesley Giovanelli
    signed 2015-12-01 09:00:21 +1100
    The development is completely out of scale with the surrounding context. It should remain below the tree line particularly because it is on the ridge of a peninsular. Tall buildings don’t belong in suburban areas.
  • Gwen Higgins
    signed 2015-11-30 21:53:27 +1100
    The development proposal remains oversized for the area and will cause even more traffic chaos on Victoria Rd and Darling St especially on weekends.
  • Judith Coombes
    signed 2015-11-30 14:14:11 +1100
    The extremely longstanding mess that this issue has become has hugely affected local residents, especially the elderly, who relied on a local Tigers Club for their social support. Local people have put up with greedy footballers and developers, and naive former club board members for many years now – please can govt and council work out a way to get going with a sensible, sympathetic development and ensure a decent size Tigers club and towers of around five to six storeys, possibly incorporating a bus interchange.
  • Jo Hobson
    signed 2015-11-30 06:16:49 +1100
    The current proposal is just another example of over development. The return of the Balmain Leagues Club is becoming less and less guaranteed.
  • Bob Baines
    signed 2015-11-28 16:39:01 +1100
  • Valisia Jollie
    signed 2015-11-28 14:35:05 +1100
    These towers are much too high housing too many people. Our streets are gridlocked now. We won’t be able to move. It will be a nightmare. Balmain is so overdeveloped now. Please don’t let these greedy developers build these hugh monstrosities.
  • Mandy Nordstrom
    signed 2015-11-28 07:39:10 +1100
  • David Lloyd
    signed 2015-11-28 07:25:11 +1100
    the development proposal is grossly oversize for the area and will cause traffic chaos on both Victoria Rd and Darling St and is a profit driven grab by a greedy developer with no consideration for the community .
  • John Morris
    signed 2015-11-27 17:49:15 +1100
    The corner of Darling Street and Victoria Road is already terribly congested and worse in weekends.The proposed development would exacerbate an impossible situation
  • Warren Allsopp
    signed 2015-11-27 17:32:59 +1100
  • Barry Canham
    signed 2015-11-27 17:16:26 +1100
  • Patricia Florance
    signed 2015-11-27 17:12:48 +1100
  • Vikii Warne
    signed 2015-11-27 16:03:06 +1100
    This current proposal is an over development of the site and not in keeping with the character of Rozelle
  • Nadia Warne
    signed 2015-11-27 15:58:22 +1100