28 The Boulevarde, Mount Hawthorn, WA, 6016

I write to object to the planning application for a dwelling at 28 The Boulevarde. I live at 71 The Boulevarde. This street is one of the last to (almost) completely retain it's character in Mount Hawthorn. The proposed building is completely out of keeping with that character. It is highly modern, square, blocky and with the removal of several mature trees and it's huge footprint and height, will stand starkly out on the street. The character integrety of The Boulevarde will finally be destroyed. The house also does not comply with the Mount Hawthorn Precinct Policy. I moved to Mount Hawthorn to live in a character area, and I am slowly watching the surrounding suburbs of North Perth and Leederville be buried under soviet looking developments which will stand empty in the current market and having my heart broken by the constant loss of historical character Perth homes to stark modern theatre-room-laden monstrosities build right out to their fences at the expensive of the greenery that makes this place so lovely. Please allow Mt Hawthorn to retain it's character.

I also live on The Boulevarde and agree with Leah's comments. This proposed development will change the street scape of a relatively in tact character street immeasurably. I am opposed to the bulk of the proposed building, the lack of surrounding open space and mature trees and the domineering design which is completely at odds with the surrounding houses. Of particular note is the black roof when all other houses in the street have clay tiles or corrugated steel roofing. There are many examples of new builds in character suburbs which are designed to be sympathetic to the surrounding character houses through use of similar materials and reasonable setbacks, heights and bulk. This is not one of those and will be a blight on our street and, if approved, will provide precedent for future housing developments which further detract from our neighbourhood.

I would like to know what are town planners are thinking? Do they all live on the quietest and leafier character streets so this has no impact for them, then for us it just does not matter. Just like the now planned and approved speed humps etc on Anzac road from Oxford street to Sasse Ave, this council does the bare minimum so that they pass planning with little or no fuss. I live on The Boulevarde just a few houses away and with that you would think I as a neighbour would have been directly asked for comment, "but that has not happened". So to add to eye sore of extra cars using The Boulevarde as a rat run, we will have a house the would be better suited to in some uber modern sea side suburb. Shame Shame Shame, how do we get these decision makers to understand or to have them removed. We move here for the character and peaceful life style, the council seems to have a process which is to destroy much of that.

I have lived on The Boulevarde for more than 25 years and I completely agree with all the above comments. I was originally drawn to Mount Hawthorn, and in particular The Boulevarde, because of the character which had been retained. The proposed building is in no way within keeping of this character, in fact it is as far removed as it could possibly be.
Aside from being an ugly blight on the whole street, I notice that the proposed height south is 3.8 metres which does not comply with current maximum height criteria of 3.5 metres. Also, the proposed average height of 3.7 metres is 0.70 metres above the current maximum height regulation.

I am a on The Boulevarde, and living on a corner block. We went through planning and finished our house making it a 6 x 3, and we worked well within our footprint. We didn't need to go up, and we are still keeping with the style and character of the rest of the street. We want to keep our streets green and appealing, this does not comply with the Mt Hawthorn Precinct policy!!!