Eleventh Ave, Austral: Plans to build 25 homes rejected due to asbestos concerns
Plans to build 25 homes in a southwest Sydney suburb have been pulled due to asbestos concerns. Here’s the latest.
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A developer’s hopes to build more than 20 homes on a southwest Sydney plot of land riddled with asbestos have been dashed.
United Surveyors Pty Limited’s plans to build 25 residential lots at 65 Eleventh Ave, Austral have been rejected by Liverpool Council.
The application for the $4.2m development was lodged on February 10, with the council rejecting it seven days later.
The plan for the 1.21ha site was to demolish the single-storey house, two metal sheds, a timber cubby house and remove a few trees to make way for the homes.
However, a geotechnical and salinity assessment and detailed site investigation report, conducted by GeoEnviro Consultancy in June 2023, found the site contaminated with asbestos and anthropogenic material.
According to the report, the material would pose a significant health risks to any workers during construction.
“The contaminants identified above have the potential to be mobilised through dermal, inhalation and ingestion particularly to workers on site and adjacent land users during construction,” it states.
While previous contamination studies didn’t find any friable asbestos, which is a high-risk form of asbestos, monitoring the air was recommended as a “precaution”.
“The extent of asbestos impacted (in the) top soil/fill found in the (area of concern) may be more wide spread across the site,” the report states.
“For the proposed residential development, site remediation and validation will be required to address area of concern one and two.
“The preferred remediation option for the identified contamination is a combination of off-site disposal and on-site treatment of the impacted soil and is considered to be the most appropriate and cost-effective remediation method in view of the type of contamination and the nature of the proposed development.”
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