DEVELOPER DISPUTES CONCERNS
THE developer of a luxury Main Beach tower has rejected concerns by neighbouring residents about parking, saying the millionaire apartment owners will not be leaving their cars on the street.
On the eve of today’s full council meeting in which councillors will vote on the project, Integrity Projects Pty Ltd managing director Josh Foote also disputes concerns about shading.
He has provided photographs of the neighbouring Pintari tower pool which shows shadowing from trees on its site.
Residents from the tower and members of the Main Beach Association spent the weekend attempting to gain more evidence on traffic and shadowing to stop the Monaco project, emailing their findings to councillors.
But Mr Foote told the Bulletin: “The Monaco apartments sell for circa $5 million. These people will be very unlikely to park their vehicles on the street like it is claimed, so we will not be adding to the on-street parking issues.
“They claim our proposed building will make the weekend parking worse and I put it to you – where can you find a park on the beachside, in any Gold Coast suburb in the weekend, with ease?
“Beachside parking is and will always be difficult. Our building will not make it any worse.”
The Main Beach Association emailed councillors with data showing traffic volume in Stafford Ave for the eighthour period from 7.30am to 4pm on Sunday.
“It was a cold windy day, five weeks prior to Southport Surf Life Saving Club commencing the Nippers season and full beach patrol. There were 736 vehicle movements over a nine-hour period, 35 of them buses, 661 cars and SUVs, six trucks, seven motorcycles and 28 bicycles,” the association wrote.
The group also supplied diagrams showing the shadow that would be cast over the Pintari recreation amenity by the 85.7m-high Monaco building along with one cast by a hypothetical compliant building of 37m.
“The diagrams for June, September, October, November demonstrate that the impact of Monaco is a total shadow with long duration for seven months of the year – but for the compliant building it is partial and shortlived,” the association said.
Mr Foote provided photographs to the Bulletin showing shading at Pintari over the pool from their existing trees and their own building.
“The pool is in shade in winter already, so the proposed building will not make it significantly worse,” he said.
“Our shadow model shows that there will be little to no shade in summer when the pool is actually used.”