An application to develop ten single bedroom apartments at 18 Chermside Street in Wellington Point will be considered by Redland City Council at a Special Meeting on Tuesday 7th January 2020.
The officers’ report recommends that the proposed development be approved, with conditions. This report is included in the meeting agenda available on the Council website.
The Special Meeting will be held at the council chambers at 91-93 Bloomfield Street, Cleveland. Members of the public can observe proceedings from the public gallery.
A special meeting is required so Council can deal with this development application within the time required by the Planning Act. Developers often agree to extensions of time for assessment of their applications but that has not happened in this case.
The application for this development was lodged on 19 September 2019, soon after ownership of this property changed hands for $630,000.
The proposed apartments are already being marketed at prices “from $299,950”.
The site is zoned for medium density residential dwellings. The Wellington Point train station is within walking distance.
The developer plans to construct a two storey building with two single bedroom apartments and eleven car parks on the ground floor and eight single bedroom apartments on the first floor.
Details of the development plans are shown below.
Increased residential density in Wellington Point
The nature of this high density low amenity development is a consequence of the developer friendly planning scheme which was approved 9/2 by Redland City Council on 6 July 2018.
The implications of adopting a developer friendly city plan were foreshadowed in Coming home to roost, published five years ago by Redlands2030.
At 18 Chermside Street the proposed plans result in site coverage of 58%.
Under the current Redland City Plan, medium density residential site coverage can be up to 75%, significantly higher than the 40% limit which applied under the old Redlands Planning Scheme.
The maximum height of the proposed apartment complex is 8.71 metres which is less than the allowable height of 13 metres, according to the developer’s Town Planning Report.
Plans for 18 Chermside Street, Wellington Point
The images below show the location and plans of the proposal for ten single bedroom dwellings on an 810m2 site in Wellington Point.
Why was this not advertised for public comment?
Under the current Redland City Plan this medium density development application is code assessable which means that it did not have to be advertised for public comment.
But you can still have your say by giving your comments to Redland City councillors before the Special Meeting on Tuesday. Here are their contact details.
Further information
For more information about this development application check out:
- Development application records for MCU19/0135 on PD On-Line
- The officers report and attachments to the Special Meeting agenda
Redlands2030 – 5 January 2020
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re RCC’s developer friendly scheme. One might ask..when ten+ apartments are squeezed in to fill the lot in its entirety, smack up to the back fence, will it be resident friendly? Can it be expected by those who approve these plans that there will be peace and harmony between neighbours when all apartments are occupied?
Mr Tod Reinke, Wellington Point, in local newspaper (01-08-2020) says he, along with business partner, are building units for 1st home buyers at Wellington Point, and adds that ‘he’s done a lot of stuff”. How about road congestion he will be increasing when these apartments are occupied? Or does Mr Reinke walk and drive around with blinkers on? Traffic from Wellington Point eventually end up at the Capalaba 4-way intersection…Finucane/Old Cleveland Rd E. Moreton & Redland Bay Roads, with motorists traveling in various directions from there. My neighbour spends over 1-1/2 hours behind the wheel of his car driving to work from Capalaba to City. The more developer friendly units/apts are built in Redlands, the more road crashes and deaths we will be seeing on Finucane Rd, Capalaba. An irate neighbour knocked on my door today asking I please help in getting the message through to politicians that traffic lights are urgently needed on Cnr Elmhurst & Finucane Rd Capalaba fearing we will see more deaths along there (four deaths in past two years at the Willard/Finucane turnaround) that is dangerous and that Premier admitted is a ‘dangerous’ road. Family member visiting from Brisbane complained to me about this dangerous Finucane Rd section between Elmhurst St & 4-way intersection where a semi-trailer struck & killed a 25-yr old female in recent times. We see mainly ‘utes’, heavy vehicles, trucks, 4-WDs…all spewing diesel fumes known to be carcinogenic with next to no roadside green buffers to combat pollution as developer friendly rules mean they can build up to roadsides to get the most ‘bang for the buck’ as the saying goes.
Transport Minister Mark Bailey said, Campbell Newman, Premier for one short term, cut road funding ignoring Redland roads. What he did do, that Paul Lucas ignored, was making driving safer by fixing the ‘black spot’ where motorists turned from Willard Rd into flowing traffic on the downhill run to 4-way intersection. The adjacent turnaround is too close to Elmhurst St intersection, has resulted in further deaths with motorcyclist having recently, by motorist executing turnaround, crashed into guard rail and killed. After the last local government election, I was informed funding would be available to upgrade the Cleveland-Redland Bay Road Thornlands between Victoria Pt and Cleveland as I recall seeing the incumbent mayor’s sign that read: “Williams will fix this road! With Planning Minister Cameron Dick telling the Bulletin Redlands was expected to accommodate 36,000 extra people by building 17,000 new dwellings by 2041….when can we expect Finucane Road Capalaba to be upgraded?
As usual more people and cars yet to be crammed into the Redland Shire. Its no longer a sea-side, semi-rural relaxing place to live. I oppose this building and any others in the planning. Saying it is part of any type of planning scheme is an excuse to get what the developer wants. The fact it has to ‘squeeze’ in no 9 car park says a lot. How small are these single apartments then? As usual its all about money, not whats best for the area. Any opposition to them will just be ignored.
Please do not allow this to go through. Please put yourself as if you were living across the street from this development. You have already changed the the local feel of Wellington Point with the cramping of houses / townhouses and no more is required. Penrith NSW used to be how Wellington Point is and look at how their council has ruined that area. Please learn from from their mistakes.
The new planning scheme is developer friendly…in part because then development industry helped steer the development of the new scheme…remember the DIRG (the non existent Development Industry Reference Group) that was about operational issues only (except it also had its hands on strategic issues of the draft scheme). Among the dividend for the development industry is higher site coverage, smaller lot sizes and higher density… that is what was delivered through the new planning scheme.