Submission period for the August 2017 Section 96 modification application DA 264/2015/C is now open
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Section 96 Modification Application DA 264/2015/C
Yes, there is yet another application from developers Avidan and Assouline to have more non-complying features added to their Bronte RSL DA. You know Avidan and Assouline – they are the ones who promised to build what was approved in 2015 but have since lodged a new bigger and taller DA as well as multiple applications to add non-complying features to the 2015 DA.
This modification application seeks:
- A commercial licensed precinct with 3 licensed premises operating 6 am to 11.30 pm SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. These hours are not permitted under the Waverley Development Control Plan (DCP). In fact, these opening hours are longer that what is allowed even in the heart of Bondi Junction.
- Permission to break the Waverley DCP shop frontage controls
Don’t let cashed-up developers ride roughshod over our community. Object strongly and loudly to developers Avidan and Assouline’s latest attempt to get more and more money at our community’s expense.
Object here now.
The Details
This request to modify the 2015 DA seeks approval to open 3 licensed premises at the Bronte RSL site. The non-complying trading hours requested are longer that the trading hours allowed by the Waverley Development Control Plan (DCP) in the heart of Bondi Junction. In our residential neighbourhood this is an outrageous and shameless request that will have a significantly adverse impact on the working people, young families and older residents of our community.
The Section 96 modification application also seeks to breach the Waverley DCP controls for the shop fronts on Macpherson St. This may seem an innocuous request but it is far from that. The restriction on the shop front size is one part of a collection of controls that seek to limit the size of the shops in the Neighbourhood Centre to a size appropriate for our residential neighbourhood.
Don’t let cashed-up developers ride roughshod over our community. Object strongly and loudly to developers Avidan and Assouline’s latest attempt to get more and more money at our community’s expense.
Object here now.
The proposed amendments to the approved DA are unnecessary for a successful development and would have unacceptable negative effects on the neighbourhood and on our community. They should be refused and the redevelopment should proceed as permitted in DA 264/2015.
More Details
What’s happened with the RSL site?
The original developer WLB on-sold the site to a new developer in July this year. The new owner is the RDA Property Group directed by Danny Avidan.
What does Avidan want?
To modify the approved 2015 DA by adding features that do not comply with the site’s planning controls. Despite promising to build what was approved in 2015, he now wants a new bigger, taller, non-complying building approved (the 2016 DA).
What happens next?
There is be yet another community consultation (“notification”) period on this latest modification application (Section 96 modification application 264/2015/C). You need to make a submission now.
We will be opposing any changes that adversely affect our community and asking that the developer, who bought the site with the full knowledge of the conditions, be made to build as he promised according to the approved DA. The developer has already successfully sold many apartments in the new building for a considerable price. There is no need to change the rules to allow the developer to make even more money.