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3.Proposed Development

3.1 Description

The proposed development is to be a residential retirement community. The subject site is
approximately 9.5 ha in area, described as Lot 1 on RP215922 on Trading Post Road, Cooroy.

The ultimate RSL Care Cooroy Retirement Village development will comprise the following:

120-bed residential care facility;

38 2-bed apartments;

118 residential lots; and

Amenities (pool, multi-purpose ‘community’ building).

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An illustration of the proposed iayout of the development is provided on drawing number:
0588_TP_04 in Appendix A.

3.2 Development Access

The subject development is proposed to provide two accesses. The main access to the site is
proposed off Trading Post Road, with a secondary access for staff of the Aged Care Facility and
service vehicles proposed off Lamonts Road.

The main access to the development is to be from Trading Post Road, via Pearsons Road. The
access will be directly from the northem end of the roadway, approximately 190m from the
Trading Post Road / Pearsons Road intersection. This access is proposed to accommodate all
residential traffic into and out of the development.

In addition, the plan proposes an additional staff and service access from Lamonts Road.

Activity at this access is expected to be minimal. For the purposes of the traffic assessment, it
was assumed that 100% of the traffic accessing the site would do so via Pearsons Road.

3.3 Car Parking

Parking provisions for the proposed development are to be provided in accordance with the
requirements set-out in Council's town planning scheme.

3.4 Servicing and Manoeuvring

Internal vehicle circulation will be assessed separately by others, and was therefore has not
included in this report.

 

9427-001(1}Final.doc: 04/12/07