In what can only be seen as damage control, council has released its more ‘sophisticated’ analysis of overshadowing for the designated Urban Renewal areas. However, this new piece of information only contains data on Elsternwick and NOT CARNEGIE – where we remind readers, 12 storeys is also in the offing.
We’ve uploaded the document HERE
We leave it up to readers to decide whether or not much faith can be placed in these shadow drawings!
We also alert residents to the following:
In the officer’s report for both Elsternwick & Carnegie it is stated that:
protect the future open space in accordance with Council’s Open Space Strategy, with no overshadowing for a minimum of 5 hours at the September Equinox (9am to 2pm achieved) and 3 hours at Winter Solstice (11am to 2pm achieved);
Yet the newly released document states:
To ensure no overshadowing of residential areas between 9am and 3pm at the September Equinox (22nd of September).
We ask:
Which is it? 2pm or 3pm? And what potential difference does one hour make in terms of overshadowing?
Further, the peer review (dated October 2017 ) has this to say on overshadowing in Urban Renewal areas. The verbage for Elsternwick is similar.
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And there’s also this concluding statement:
Overshadowing impacts to Woorayl Street Park would likely to substantially decrease the overall height and development yield of sites between Woorayl Street and Arawatta Street (to 5-6 storeys) if June 22 shadows are adopted in Guidelines, while September 22 shadows are more easily reconciled with the maximum height (with community benefits) as shown in Figure 20. This model has assumed an adoption of September 22 shadow
Thus we have a situation where council is now pretending to have listened to resident concerns by producing a document that purports to show the latest ‘analysis’ when this was already mooted 4 months ago! More to the point the decision to implement September 22nd rules and ignore the June rules isn’t to benefit residents but developers so they can cram in even higher heights!
This latest public relations exercise by council simply reinforces the fact that agendas and decisions have been well and truly made and that residents have always been the last to know about anything! The entire ‘consultation’ process has been a sham!
Glen Eira Debates 
February 24, 2018 at 2:17 PM
Did I read a 90 metre setback for a 12 storey abutting a northern edge of public open space.
Cr. Delahuntly will be working her butt off to make that a reasonable 9 metre setback. I can hear her now, with rising skin cancers rates, overshadowing should be seen as a public service.
February 24, 2018 at 8:26 PM
Surely the diagrams show multiple breaches of the Apartment Development standards in S58 of the Planning Scheme. There’s no communal open space shown [D7]; no sunlight reaching the non-existent communal open space [D8]; no landscaping [D10]; inadequate daylight into new habitable room windows [D14]; poor amenity for private open space which should be oriented to the north [D19]; probably inadequate daylight into single aspect habitable rooms [D25] and inadequate daylight into habitable room windows [D26]. If anything the diagrams confirm suspicions that 12 storeys cannot seriously be considered with the inadequate setbacks Council depicts.
There must surely be similar diagrams for Carnegie and Bentleigh since Council is supposed to vote on their structure plans Tuesday. Do they show the same fatal problems? Probably.
February 25, 2018 at 7:46 PM
I don’t get home until after 6pm each day. Does that mean I will never see sunlight from my home again?
February 25, 2018 at 9:40 PM
Possibly not, but what about the weekends?
If they could find a way to charge us for sunlight they would, and they would add GST as well.
February 26, 2018 at 9:41 PM
Stuff the development yield. 5 or 6 storeys in a residential area is ridiculous