A Liberal MP in Sydney has sided with residents protesting against a planned three-storey social housing complex for seniors, citing concerns about property values and neighborhood disruption.
A Liberal state MP has thrown his support behind residents protesting against plans to build a three-storey social housing block for seniors in Sydney ’s south, claiming it threatens to devalue their homes and disrupt the ambience of their “peaceful, family oriented neighbourhood”.
Oatley MP Mark Coure, who was minister for seniors in the Perrottet government, sent Housing Minister Rose Jackson a petition and letter from Riverwood residents who expressed their “strong opposition” to the proposed 29-unit “high-density senior housing development”.Homes NSW As the NSW waiting list for social housing passes 62,590, Coure’s intervention on behalf of riled neighbours has put him on a collision course with Jackson, who said the project is a “well-designed, well-located three-storey building for older people at risk of homelessness”. “The fact we have to push through objections from local Liberal MPs to deliver such a project is so frustrating,” she said. Coure said he did not oppose the project but had passed on residents’ concerns “to ensure that their voices were heard in the approval and consultation process of this development”.“As a local MP, my job is to represent the concerns of my constituents to the government of the day,” he said. Homes NSW is proposing to build the 29 apartments with 14 car spaces on Hardwicke Street. The complex would house people aged 60 and older – mostly women – without access to stable housing. The petition from Hardwicke Street neighbours said the complex would create an influx of residents and cars that would compromise safety and parking, disrupt the street’s “serene atmosphere”, and overburden parks, medical centres and community facilities.It warned the three-storey block would “loom” over the street’s mostly single- and double-storey houses, threatening the suburb’s “sense of seclusion and tranquillity” and leading to an “unwanted invasion of privacy” that might force many people to “keep blinds or curtains drawn at all times”
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