Council planners recommend refusal of dual occupancy
Council planners have recommended refusal of an application for development of a dual occupancy at 23 Bangalow St, Ettalong, which will be considered at the Local Planning Panel meeting on Thursday, August 10.
The application is for a two-storey dual occupancy with three bedrooms per unit.
Each unit would have two bedrooms at ground level and a master bedroom on the first floor.
They would feature a ground level living area, front courtyards and first floor decks, a roof-top terrace for each unit, and two two-car garages off the rear laneway.
"The application is required to be referred to the Local Planning Panel as a result of the number of submissions received during the notification period," the associated report states.
"Twenty-one submissions were received."
The report said that the application was amended throughout the assessment process.
The application originally proposed a floor space ratio of 0.59:1, a 11.8 per cent variation to the maximum of 0.5:1, which would also have triggered referral to the Panel.
However, the application was amended to reduce the proposed floor space ratio to 0.54:1.
The report stated the "key issues" included the non-compliant floor space ratio, and non-compliance with other planning provisions.
These included provisions for setbacks, deep soil, waste, private open space and solar access.
Public submissions and matters raised in them were listed as a key issue.
Another key issue was "insufficient information" about "swept paths" and clearances required for access, preliminary engineering plans and landscape plans.
A number of reasons were given in the council planning assessment to refuse the application.
These included that: "The proposal is not consistent with the R1 zone objective of the Central Coast Local Environmental Plan 2022.
"The proposal has not demonstrated that it pays adequate regards to the environmental constraints of the site or that is can adequately mitigate its impacts.
"The proposal has not demonstrated that it exhibits best practice design given its floor space ratio, setback non-compliances, solar access and amenity issues."
SOURCE:
Local Planning Panel agenda 3.2, 10 Aug 2023
DA/1776/2022, Central Coast Council