Britannia St three-unit proposal is re-advertised
A development application for three two-storey units at 10 Britannia St, Umina, originally lodged in 2023, has been re-advertised by Central Coast Council.
When originally exhibited the proposal attracted several objections.
The exact number of submissions is unknown, so it is not clear whether it would have gone to the Local Planning Panel for determination.
The proposal includes the demolition and removal of an existing dwelling on the 673.5 square metre site within the R1 (general residential) zone.
The original application outlined plans for three three-bedroom dwellings, with concrete slab footings, steel roofing, aluminium windows and a mixture of external cladding.
The re-exhibition has only one new document which is a revised set of plans, labelled Revision 4.
The plans show the driveway on the opposite side of the building from the original, now on the western side where previously on the east.
This allows a street tree in front of the property to be retained.
Another change provides a front setback of 6.76 metres, where previously it was 5.773 metres, in breach of council planning provisions requiring 6.7 metres, being the average of the setbacks of adjoining properties.
A third change is that the visitors' car parking spot has been repositioned to replaces Unit 3's second car space.
Unit 3 will now have only one off-street car parking space as will Unit 2, making a total of five spaces, four for residents and one for visitors.
The plans have also been changed to show true north, correcting an incorrect north point on the previous drawings.
This error had been pointed out in one submission for this application and is a common mistake that has been brought to the attention of the Central Coast Council in submissions on a number of previous occasions for other applications.
Plans lodged with the NSW Land Registry by the surveyor who laid out most of the streets on the Peninsula show an incorrect "magnetic meridian" marked as "MTM"
This north point is neither magnetic north nor true north, but a deviation of about 7.2 degrees clockwise (east) from true north.
Unfortunately, while the north point on the plans has been corrected, the shadow diagrams for the building proposed for 10 Britannia St are still incorrect.
The number of shadow diagrams has increased with the re-exhibition.
The diagrams purport to show the shadowing at more frequent intervals but the shadow diagrams clearly have an azimuth error of 7.2 degrees.
The application is currently open for public submissions until June 6.
SOURCE:
DA Tracker, 31 May 2025
DA1336/2023, Central Coast Council