31 Hampton Road, Essendon West VIC 3040

Hampton Road is a very busy street that supports bus services to and from St Bernard’s. It gets gridlocked as it is with mainly single dwellings in the street currently. We live next to a 3 dwelling townhouse development around the corner from this site where 2 families and a couple live respectively. There are always 2 extra cars parked on the road (despite no on street parking allowed for) due to the size of the garages and parking space available and this is an 803m2 site.
At most, this site in Hampton road should only be allowed 2 townhouses with driveway parking to accommodate 2 additional cars each to avoid further street traffic congestion. Already people living in the development further up Hampton Road park in the driveway, meaning children walking to school must walk on the road to go around the cars. No one in these new townhouses developments seem to use their garage to park cars. They are concerned to entertaining or storage spaces with cars parked on the road.
Please town planning, no more multiple dwelling sites in Essendon West and Niddrie. There just isn’t the road space to accommodate the additional traffic or access for buses.

This is a huge problem in west Essendon. Everyone leaves the cars outside their property either because it’s convenient for them or most likely they haven’t enough garage space to park all the cars they own.
I live next door to property that now has 2 townhouses that replaced 1 single home.
Because the 2 townhouses have their single garage at the back of their property which can only be accessed via a lane way. They leave the 4 cars parked in the street not only in the front of their own property but now in front of my property. This is causing a huge problem as when I’m exiting my driveway I can’t see the oncoming traffic.
Council need to look at the properties and add more room for all the extra cars families have now.

I live withing 50 metre and Hampton road street parking ridiculous especially during morning and afternoon school time hours .
Neighbouring other multi townhouse are taking up all the normal on road parking that long term house owners have used for many years .

On another note this developer also has acquired next door and assuming council approve this application and block next door sale land area I’m sure developers will apply again for another three units same streeg fsving design . That said this will see 4 street facing two level townhouse plus two at rear totalling 6 new townhouse and up yo 20 bedrooms that will end up not having enough on property parking but everyone will park on Hampton road and sapphire street .

Beside this application and eventually next door plus correctly there is another two townhouse already strated construction at 37 hampton road parking going be a nightmare .

Respect asking council to support only two dual homes in area nothing more as parking critical complaint .

Another multi-development in Hampton Road will only add to the current congestion of parked cars in the street. The street is congested at peak times as it is. Neighbouring streets are also being used to park cars creating congestion at corners and traffic is not moving freely. There is also a safety concern that the multiple parked cars in the street are blocking view for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. The bus cannot pass through on Hampton Road due to the cars parked on both sides of street. Children are walking on the road around parked cars because cars are also taking up space in the driveways/crossovers. Also consider emergency vehicles and rubbish collection days and the access for these vehicles. Multiple dwellings per site also means more occupants and more cars per dwelling. Parking spaces, garage size and storage per household is not being considered. There is a development of 4 townhouses on the corner of Hampton Rd and Diamond St which has remained unoccupied for many months since completion. Is this a result of overdevelopment in the area and poor design? There is little driveway space for extra off street parking, the garages are only suitable for a small sized car and there is no storage space. If 3 adults occupy each dwelling that’s possibly 3 cars that need to be garaged/parked in the street, multiply that by 4 dwellings. Please consider this when approving other applications for multi-developments in the area. It is proving to be an issue causing congestion in the surrounding streets. People are not using their garages due to limited storage allocated or size is not suitable for their vehicles or the number of vehicles per household. This development in Hampton Rd will have the same affect.