MORE than four years after lodging its first development application for a church in McMahon Way, the Singleton City Gospel Trust has lodged the application again.
The application put forward by Chris Young Planning Pty Ltd, on behalf of owners Singleton City Gospel Trust, will see Singleton councillors vote whether to approve the development on Monday night.
The application is for a place of public worship, for use by Singleton’s Brethren Christian Community, located at Lot 100, 5-11 McMahon Way at the Pinnacle.
The proposal is for a 478 square metre hall with bench seating for roughly 400 to 490 people.
Pinnacle home owners Bruce and Fiona Whyte object to the proposal and believe the building and increased traffic will detract from the amenity of their peaceful neighbourhood.
“The building height is 8.2 metres which is out of character with the surrounding homes,” Mr Whyte said.
“The seating capacity is for 490 people, who will arrive from 5.30am on weekends and then up til 10pm week nights on suburban streets not designed to accommodate traffic of that proportion,” he said.
Singleton Council has received 26 letters of objections regarding the development.
The Whyte’s will use public access to raise their concerns regarding the development at council’s meeting on Monday night.
The Whyte’s are angry council did not informed them of the development application and say if it wasn’t for an ‘anonymous phone call’ they wouldn’t have known.
“We have had no notification from council,” Mr Whyte said.
“We had a letter to say we would be notified when it would go to council but there has been nothing. We want to know why we weren’t notified because it could have gone straight through without anyone able to object,” he said.
Applicant Chris Young from Chris Young Planning Pty Ltd believed Council’s report dealt with the development application in ‘an extremely professional manner’ and that the report was ‘well-balanced’.
Mr Young, a planning consultant, said a traffic study and an acoustic study had been undertaken.
“There is no doubt there will be an increase in traffic in the street but not from this development it will be part of the further extension of the residential area and the 300 additional dwellings that council has told us will be built,” Mr Young said.
Mr Young said the Church would operate within normal hours that was permitted in the area like any school or hospital development would be.
“Hours are like any normal operation for any Church submission put to Council,” he said.
“We outlined uses that would be happening to Council, it’s the same as if it was a Catholic Church having a 6am mass or a midnight mass at Christmas however the needs of this group operates in a different way,” he added.
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