Scale & transition
Ask for exact height, setbacks, building separation, massing and how a seven-storey form transitions to adjoining lower-rise homes.
LOCAL VOICES • GOOD PLANNING • MORE HOMES DONE WELL
Protect Maroubra’s liveability as our suburb grows.
Major housing projects can deliver urgently needed homes while also raising legitimate questions about height, density, traffic, privacy, trees, infrastructure and neighbourhood character. Protect Maroubra helps residents understand proposals and make their own informed submissions.
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WHY THIS MATTERS
State-led planning can change the scale and pathway of development.
NSW planning rules provide State Significant Development pathways for certain large housing proposals, including government housing projects over 75 homes. SSD applications are assessed at state level rather than as an ordinary local development application.
Separate Housing SEPP provisions can also provide height and floor-space bonuses in qualifying affordable-housing developments. These rules do not mean every local control is automatically discarded: the applicable controls and any proposed variations need to be identified and assessed for each project.
The community question
How should Maroubra accommodate more housing while protecting reasonable standards for design, amenity, infrastructure, open space, trees, traffic and the relationship between new buildings and existing homes?
CASE STUDY
8–30 Yorktown Parade, Maroubra
Homes NSW currently describes a seven-storey building of around 84 social homes on a 3,440 m² site, with shared outdoor space, a community room, bicycle storage and around 47 basement parking spaces. The project has not yet reached the SSDA exhibition stage; Homes NSW says an application is expected in late 2026.
Privacy & sunlight
Request view-line diagrams, overlooking controls and verified shadow studies for neighbouring homes and private open space.
Traffic & parking
Ask how resident, visitor, service and construction traffic will be managed and how parking assumptions reflect local conditions.
Trees & open space
Seek clear figures for tree retention/removal, deep-soil area, canopy targets, communal open space and replacement planting.
Infrastructure
Ask for evidence on transport, drainage, waste, schools, health and community services, including cumulative impacts from nearby projects.
Demolition & hazards
Ask how hazardous materials, unassessed subsurface areas, dust, noise, waste and unexpected contamination will be controlled during demolition.
Context matters: the stated purpose of the project is to add social housing. Residents can support that objective while raising specific planning concerns, or take a different view. Strong submissions are evidence-based and focus on the proposal’s actual impacts and possible design responses.
ASK FOR EVIDENCE
Questions worth putting on the record
Planning controls
What controls apply to this site now? Which height, FSR, setback or other standards does the proposal meet, exceed or seek to vary, and under what statutory provision?
Alternatives
What lower-scale design options were tested? Could the same housing objective be delivered with different massing, setbacks, dwelling mix or site planning?
Cumulative impacts
How has the assessment accounted for other approved, proposed and under-construction housing projects in the immediate area?
Neighbour amenity
What are the quantified impacts on solar access, privacy, outlook, noise, wind and visual bulk for the closest existing homes?
Parking & movement
What evidence supports the proposed parking provision, and what are the expected effects on Yorktown Parade, Fitzgerald Avenue and event-day conditions near Coral Sea Park?
Construction & demolition
What controls, monitoring, complaints process and stop-work triggers will apply for asbestos, hazardous materials, dust, vibration, soil contamination and unexpected finds?
PARTICIPATE
Make your own submission count.
Use specific, first-hand impacts where possible. Refer to documents, measurements or photographs. Explain the change you want considered. Avoid form-letter wording when you can: a personal, evidence-based submission is clearer.
NOW
Send feedback to Homes NSW
Homes NSW says pre-application feedback on 8–30 Yorktown Parade is open until 7 October 2026.
Email Homes NSWCommunity Engagement: 1800 738 718
WHEN SSDA IS EXHIBITED
Lodge through the NSW Planning Portal
Formal SSD submissions must be lodged through the Major Projects portal during public exhibition.
NSW Planning Portal
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Share local planning concerns
Randwick City Council is not the SSD consent authority, but council feedback can form part of the state assessment process.
Randwick City CouncilSUBMISSION BUILDER
Build a personal draft
Select only the issues that genuinely concern you. Add your own observations. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored by this page.
Review and edit the draft so it accurately reflects your own position. A formal SSD submission can only be lodged during exhibition through the NSW Planning Portal.
CHECK THE SOURCE
Official information
Homes NSW8–30 Yorktown Parade project page
NSW Planning Portal8–30 Yorktown Parade demolition documents
NSW PlanningHow State Significant Development works
NSW PlanningHousing SEPP and housing pathways
Nearby precedent40–64 Yorktown / 195–213 Fitzgerald SSD
Information checked 22 September 2026. Project details can change; verify against official sources before submitting.