Umina Beach boarding house approved by Central Coast Local Planning Panel
A decision has been made on plans for a boutique boarding house at Umina Beach. The plans proposed an 11-room home at a construction cost of $1.2m.
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A $1.2m “boutique” boarding house in Umina Beach has been given the green light despite strong community objections.
The Central Coast Planning Panel has approved the 11-room, two-storey boarding house at 454 Ocean Beach Rd.
The boarding house will include an attached manager’s residence and communal living area along with seven car spaces and two motorbike spaces.
It will provide housing for up to 22 lodgers with a minimum stay of six months.
As part of the approval, the panel has included a range of conditions, from an increased height of privacy screens to changes to the floor plan and certain windows on the second floor will have to be “obscured”.
The applicant will have to provide an alternative contact when the house manager is not available and no smoking be allowed within the communal outdoor area.
The proposal attracted many objections from local residents, with 43 submissions received by council.
Objections related to a range of issues including the development leading to an increase in crime and being inappropriate in the vicinity of a school.
Other issues against the DA include a lack of parking spaces, amenity impacts to surrounding properties and the second storey bedrooms resulting in a lack of privacy to neighbours.
In response to crime concerns, the applicant has stated that the proposal is of a “high-quality residential layout” within local planning controls and included a management plan as well as the onsite manager and CCTV camera system to deter anti-social behaviour.
“NSW Police have reviewed the Plan of Management and the proposed floor plans and generally support the development,” the council report states.
The applicant Charles Raneri also says the implications that the boarding house is in an unsociable location close to a school is “misinformed”.
“The future residents of this, or indeed many boarding house developments can be as varied as doctors and nurses on regional rotation, to people fleeing domestic violence situations,” the report states.
The council report states the DA is in the public interest, providing a “residential accommodation option that is not prevalent in the area”.