LET’S look at the council’s passing of the residential development for the Baringa Gardens Estate, the paddock bounded by Goonoo Goonoo Rd and, to the south, Allawah St located just before the Calala roundabout, where a single entrance/exit – by extending Kyooma St – will be impacted with noise and traffic disruptions to residents in a quiet area of lower Hillvue.
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This is an area which was never designed to allow for the questionable alterations as those proposed to Kyooma and Allawah streets.
We will now wake up for months to come to the daily sounds of heavy machinery, graders, dump trucks, water tankers and back hoes with their constant eerie sirens, as roadworks inside the development, then the construction of a T-intersection joining Kyooma and Allawah streets is done.
Major changes to these roads will cause disruption to traffic with partial road closures, possible power outages, along with the inconvenience that extensive alterations to existing infrastructure bring.
Once this roadwork is completed there will be another test for residences as the ceaseless travel of heavy vehicles carrying all the construction materials for housing attempts to negotiate the roundabout at Edward St to come into Kyooma St.
A feat not possible for buses and an alternate route will have to be found.
This impasse will not be for a month, but for years to come, and soon followed by increased vehicular traffic through this single entrance/exit from the 80 odd residential blocks proposed.
A continual additional disruption to residents.
Our residential area will never to be same.
Our livelihood is changed and challenged through negative planning, a perceived neglect by officials to both listen to, and debate, valid concerns, proposals or alternative suggestions which would have assisted in keeping long term rate paying residents happy.
Our objections have never been against the development, it is welcomed, but to the irrational design and positioning of the single entrance/exit and the unnecessary design and construction of a
T-intersection at Kyooma and Allawah streets which will totally disrupt traffic flow in this area and add unknown additional pressure on residents as to what this major alteration to the roadworks will have on their living standards and the possible down grading of property valuations.
Councillors agreed at their council meeting passing this development application that a single entrance/exit was not the desirable outcome and listed our group’s three alternatives for further consideration.
At this time no information has been received from council as to our concerns.
Questions have been raised as to how, if required, emergency services respond to a major incident in this development and we trust this will never occur.
As to the evacuation of residents, the entry of necessary vehicles and personnel to deal with such an event leaves a valid urgent response to this question.
The street design of this area now brings into play Amaroo Rd off Edward St as the heavy vehicular entry to Kyooma St and this development, access from Goonoo Goonoo Rd into Greg Norman Dr. The roundabout into Edward St adds further disruption to residents previously not having to contend with additional traffic.
The outcome of this development is that residences bounded by Amaroo Rd, Edward St, Allawah and Kyooma streets, including Wilburtee, will bear the burden of increased vehicular traffic and the associated disruptions for all time forward.
We are not the happy residents of lower Hillvue we once were.
