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Not a good idea as traffic is already bad in th area due to the 2 schools and existing preschool
If the council care about the residents this should not go ahead in the location
Not the best location for it. With the driveway to the shopping complex, entry to the school and church, MDS vehicles using Tallowwood to do a U-turn to get into their driveway and the number of cars parked on the road this intersection is already a nightmare.
As a parent several small children, who regularly walks along jacaranda Ave, I have already found this intersection highly problematic during high traffic times such as before and after school.
Currently during these high peak times the corner of Jacaranda and Tallowwood is inundated by Sherwood Baptist school families dropping off and picking up. Along with these families traffic is further swollen with the families from Bradbury Public school, situated further up Jacaranda Ave plus multiple buses (suburb and school) as well as the daily commercial requirements of the Bradbury Shopping complex and traffic requirements (e.g. U-turns from vehicles travelling along the south bound lane) of Macarthur Disability Service.
Further complicating this interaction is that the entrance to the Bradbury Shopping Complex and Tallowwood Crescent does not perfectly line up. It can be, at times, extremely difficult to anticipate a car leaving the shopping complex and entering Tallowwood Crescent and vice versa. Including an addition of a third service, into this already complex set up with significant changes to traffic requirements can only result in tragic outcomes in the future.
Is the carpark integrated into the plan enough to cover both staff parking and client or will the staff be required to park along the streets already required for the drop off and pick up for the students of Sherwood Baptist School. Parking that is already limited by the near by bus stop on Jacaranda Ave.
I also have questions and concerns about how well a two story commercial building will integrate into an area of low density, single story, housing. The only second story commercial building within this location is attached to the Sherwood Baptist School and is set at the back off of the school site, bringing it in line with the shopping complex rather than the domestic residence along Jacaranda.
Finally I have reservations around the viability of a commercial business that has very specific clientele in a suburb that has had a sustained <10% for under 5 demographic, within an area that has been adequately able to meet the care requirements of <10%, to the point that surrounding centres either have current vacancies or minimal placement wait lists.
