Regarding Lisa Tisdell's article 'Allied Health Clinic Approved in Siren Rd' (Oct 11), the issues at stake concern all residents of Port Macquarie living in residential zones.
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Here's our takeaway lessons from a recent PMHC Development Application (DA) process and subsequent approval in our neighbourhood that is opposed to by 38 PMHC residents (We emphasise that it is the PMHC DA process that we object to, not the business concerned):
- That residents will have a small if any chance of receiving timely notification from PMHC council of a DA in their street
- That residential zones can be easily flipped to allow for commercial use
-That car parking for around 19 -22 cars is apparently ambient to an existing residential streetscape.
-That numerous road safety concerns due to increased traffic that commercial DAs in residential precincts bring with them is inconsequential.
-That the PMHC Assessment Panel Meeting regarding this DA (25 Sept 2019) was a 'Tick a Box' farce.
-That a PMHC Koala Recovery Strategy (2018) is not worth the paper it's written on. We urge residents to galvanise their neighbourhood now.
There's bound to be a DA in your street that you don't and won't know about until it's probably too late.
24/7 convenience store, anyone?
The silence from PMHC to all 38 objections to this DA in Siren Rd is deafening.
C and P McKee
Port Macquarie
