4211/22

The development represents inappropriate backland development and overdevelopment that provides a seriously substandard level of residential amenity, failing to meet mandatory national apartment standards and negatively impacting the character and setting of the Z2 Residential Conservation Area.

• The proposed two-bedroom apartment is significantly substandard in scale, providing only 50.6 sq.m of floor area which is well below the 73 sq.m requirement (or 63 sq.m minimum for 3-person units) mandated by the 2022 Apartment Guidelines.
• The development results in excessive site coverage that eliminates necessary private amenity space for the original dwelling and provides only poor-quality, 'covered' amenity space for the new unit with no direct sunlight access.
• The retention of this structure would set a negative planning precedent for inappropriate backland development and would fail to protect or improve the amenities of the residential conservation area as required by the Z2 zoning objective.