Boyle St Mosmanites outraged at ‘blatant overdevelopment’ plans
A GROUP of residents hope Mosman Council will stop a North Sydney developer’s plans for units in Boyle St, which would threaten harbour views and the green landscape.
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A GROUP of Mosman residents in and around Boyle St have united to object to a proposal they call “outrageous — a blatant overdevelopment”.
Modog aims to build units in the lower part of the street. The North Sydney developer is taking Mosman Council to the Land and Environment Court (LEC) in a bid to succeed.
Rob Foster, a Boyle St resident of almost four decades, said the group of objectors hoped the council would do “whatever it took” to thwart the “purely profit driven” plans.
Mr Foster feared the plans, if successful, would have an “enormous impact” on views from the harbour, Mosman Bay and its surrounds.
“Modog Pty Ltd has lodged a revised development application to convert what were two houses at 24 and 26 Boyle St into a six to seven level complex of eight units, with 16 of 18 car spaces underground serviced by a vehicle lift,” he said.
“It involves massive excavation near many heritage-listed features and it would create traffic and parking chaos in Lower Boyle St, a narrow, dead-end street, and surrounding streets.”
Mr Foster said the plans had no consideration for immediate neighbours, the community, or the area’s cherished heritage.
“It would mean the end of the current green landscape views from both the harbour and its foreshores that so many know and love,” he said.
“At least seven homes have view lines to Mosman Bay that pass directly over the roof of the site to be demolished or replaced with units. All seven-plus would be affected by the proposal, some very severely.
“To allow it, or anything like it, to proceed would set a very dangerous precedent.”
Modog and Mosman Council declined to comment. The matter is set down for a two-day hearing in the LEC next month.
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