Plans to build a two-storey childcare centre have been met with scathing criticism from locals
Residents have hit out against a $1.5m childcare centre proposed for an already congested cul-de-sac with one MP saying it “looks like a remand centre”.
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Residents in Adelaide’s south have been left reeling after plans to build a two-storey childcare centre were revealed.
Davenport MP Steve Murray said the $1.5m childcare centre proposed for Bolton Court in Flagstaff Hill was overkill for the street and believed the area is already a poorly planned hotspot.
“It is an industrial scale development which looks like a remand centre,” Mr Murray said.
“This is Flagstaff Hill’s hotspot, it straddles the shopping centre as well as the biggest primary school in area, it’s just overkill.”
Submitted by Leyton Property Pty Ltd to the City of Onkaparinga, the centre proposes to host 108 children and 17 staff across two levels from Monday to Friday.
The carparking layout has been designed to accommodate 27 on-site spaces, including one disability space.
Daryl Lambert and Ken Smith, both long term residents of cul-de-sac, say the plans are outrageous considering the street is already heavily congested.
“We have lived on this street for 20 years and each year it becomes increasingly busier because parents are dropping off their children in cars rather than walking them to school,” Mr Lambert said.
“Now they’re all looking for parks and there are many occasions where I have come home and there are cars blocking my driveway because of park and ride into the city.
“Then to put a childcare centre at the start of the street, it would be catastrophic.”
Just a stone’s throw away from the site, is the Flagstaff Hill golf club, which is set to be come home to a mammoth retirement village of 107 units across five levels.
“We expect to have at least another 300 cars coming in once that is completed,” Mr Smith said.
“It’s a commercialisation of residential areas, the houses surrounding this development will walk out their back door and feel like they are in a remand centre.”
Public notification for the proposal will close at the end of November.
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