Darley Rd, Manly: New details on three-storey boarding house near CBD
Plans for a three-storey boarding house near Manly’s CBD have been around for eight years but new details about the 26-room facility have been revealed.
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New details and images of a large boarding house to be built in the heart of Manly have emerged.
The building, with a total of 26 double and single rooms for “lodgers”, is just minutes away from the famous ocean beach, the ferry wharf and the seaside suburb’s CBD.
Permission to demolish three “Mediterranean-style” terrace houses – which were used as a boarding house, at the corner of Darley Rd and Ashburner St – and replace them with a three-storey facility was granted by the Land and Environment Court in 2016.
The original redevelopment plans, which included a boarding house with 36 rented rooms, attracted dozens of negative submissions to the then Manly Council from locals concerned about issues including noise, lack of parking; the number of residents in a relatively small space and; “overdevelopment” of the site.
A new application to make minor modifications to the approved DA is now before Northern Beaches Council. Its owners want to add Juliette balconies as well as a slight modification to the front facade, which is designed to mimic the Mediterranean look of the original terraces.
The houses have already been demolished. Documents lodged with the council predict it would take 12 months to build the boarding house.
A consultant’s report stated that development was “not likely to result in any significant loss of privacy to any adjoining or nearby property owners”.
Under planning rules, the building cannot be used as a backpackers’ hostel; hotel or motel accommodation; seniors housing or as serviced apartments.
Locals again highlighted a lack of parking at the site in recent modification application.
“To approve a boarding house with many stand alone tenants and no proposed parking is irresponsible, ” Michelle Boot said.
Raymond Robinson told the council that “any new building in Manly should have parking when possible”.
Sam Gliddon also called for parking spaces at the boarding house.
“I often drive around for 15 minutes looking for parks that are considerable walks from home,” he wrote.
In an updated boarding house Plan of Management, lodged with the council last month, the developers stated that “lodgers” would be required to stay for a minimum of three months in self-contained rooms.
“No drug use or consumption of alcohol is permitted on site,” the plan stated. “Between 10pm and 7am, no loud noises, with particular attention being on lodgers and guests socialising close to a window or on a balcony near the street or adjoining properties.”
Other conditions for lodgers included leaving the garden common area by 8:30pm; use of the common room will be restricted to between 8am and 10pm and; no amplified music on the premises.
A spokesman for the developer declined to comment.
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