From: 	"Karsten Pedersen" <karstenp@iprimus.com.au>
To:	<mark.schofield@planning.nsw.gov.au>
Date: 	19/09/2013 10:23 PM
Subject: 	Application No. 10_0037 MOD1 - Allengrove Cres North Ryde

Mark,

I wish to indicate my strongest objections to the proposition that a PAC
determination that this development was not consistent with Local Council
Zoning and was inappropriate in size and scale has been overturned. For them
to then be forced into mediation with the developer is an insult to their
professionalism and the Ryde Council and people of North Ryde to whom they
were rightly listening.

For a developer to then be able to sell the concept plan to a builder who
can apply directly to your department to attempt to restore its original
size and scale is an absolute traversty.

It makes a mockery of the PAC commissioners efforts to reflect the valid
objections of the Local Council &community. 

At the very worst no further concessions should be made to the builder by
way of increasing density and or the scale of the project. The builder knew
what he was buying from the developer and he should have calculated his
buying price and potential return accordingly.

The O'Farrell government was elected with a promise to abolish Part 3A and
hand back planning powers to the Local Council. Clearly this core promise
has been abandoned and I must say I am exceptionally disappointed in the
Liberal government with what appears to be an approach to planning which
favours the developers and builders and has scant regard for the impact on
local communities such as North Ryde. I fear exactly the same shameful
process may well apply to the Whiteside project which the PAC commisioners
have also modified as a result of the very serious and valid objections of
all council members, The Liberal MP John Dominello and members of the local
community. Not a single supporter to be found.

Surely it shouldn't be developers/ builders first and the local community
last or is it all just about the money.

We after all have to live with the shocking traffic congestion which is
already gridlock in peak hour, rat runners trying to avoid the main roads
and back streets chocked with transient parkers working in Maquarie Park.

Please at the very worst don't undermine PAC by reversing the thoroughly
thought out limits they are placing on these Concept Plans.

Karsten Pedersen

North Ryde