2018-07-10 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     10 JULY 2018


     The land owner’s parents, in particular the land owner’s mother, can no longer effectively
     negotiate the existing stairs that provide pedestrian access to the above existing dwelling
     house, whether that be down from the easement benefiting the site off Allambi Rise and or
     up the existing 72 steps from Park Road.
     The proposed lift is designed to offer safe access from Park Road to the existing terrace
     deck on the middle living level of the dwelling house on 12 Park Road for the land owner’s
     parents. The land owner for the above lot also owns the adjoining land at 10 Park Road on
     which another dwelling house is currently erected. This existing dwelling at 10 Park Road
     also incorporates an existing lift that connects the Park Road level up to the pool on the
     middle of the other dwelling house on that land.
     The lift now proposed at 12 Park Road could be used in conjunction with the existing lift in
     10 Park Road so as to improve universal access for the landowner’s elderly parents, who
     will then only need to negotiate three existing steps in order to get from Park Road to that
     existing house at 10 Park Road.
     The primary reason for the proposed lift is therefore to provide universal access from the
     approved timber terrace fronting Park Road to the middle living level of the house for the
     young to the older persons and everyone in between….
     The lift structure will extend to a height of 8m. above natural ground level. External walls of
     the proposed lift structure will be clad in rock to match that rock cladding also proposed to
     the external retaining walls of partly underground access between Park Road and the lift
     structure.
The application is before Council as there was a previous Court appeal in relation to an earlier
change application involving a deck and due to the significant location of the site. Figure 1 shows
an aerial view of the subject site.




                                       Figure 1: Subject site




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