Residents have been quick to act upon a ten-dwelling development application (DA) on a house block at 116 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby.
A change.org petition at www.chn.ge/1WbVhIM is seeking to stop the development ‘so a precedent is not set for further development of Mullumbimby’.
The application is on public exhibition until Wednesday April 27, and has been lodged under the State Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009.
Applicant Koho Projects intends to demolish the existing house, build ten one-bedroom attached dwellings on the 900 square metre block and construct parking for five vehicles at the rear.
Koho’s Duncan Band told The Echo three of the dwellings will be managed by a registered community housing provider and the company has no plans to sell the other units.
He said ‘the remaining seven dwellings will be available as long-term permanent rental accommodation.’
As for whether it would set a precedent with regard to its density, Mr Band says he couldn’t answer that; however, ‘the SEPP Affordable Rental Housing has been in effect since 2009,’ and there were ‘other examples of that in Byron Shire’.
He also added the dwellings are proposed as one-bedroom dwellings, ‘Not two bedrooms, as mentioned on change.org.’
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