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24 October, 2025
Planning panel approves new childcare centre
Wingecarribee’s Local Planning Panel has approved a new 72-place childcare facility in Burradoo.
Wingecarribee’s Local Planning Panel has approved a new 72-place childcare facility in Burradoo.
The facility will be built at 52 Eridge Park Road with the project to include partial demolition of an existing dwelling house.
Council received 21 submissions in relation to the proposal – all of them objections. Two neighbours also addressed Wednesday’s planning panel meeting to raise concerns over safety and the legality of a childcare centre on land zoned R5 – Large Lot Residential.
One neighbour said commercial premises (including kindergartens) were not permitted on land zoned R5 while another argued that approval of the childcare facility would likely result in “significant injury or death”.
The centre will cater for children aged 0-5 and will operate from 7.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday with a two-week closure over the Christmas-New Year period.
A council staff report said the centre would provide an employment opportunity and community service appropriate in the context of large lot residential development. It said the primary residential function, character and amenity of the neighbourhood would not be adversely affected by the proposed use.
Most of the concerns raised in submissions to council related to vehicular access and safety including pedestrian access and the safety of vehicles entering and exiting the property from Eridge Park Road. Other concerns related to noise impacts, garbage collection, pollution, potential visual impacts and tree removal.
Thirteen trees will need to be removed for the development but five of them were found to be either dead or an environmental weed species, “warranting removal irrespective of the proposal”.
The planning panel approved the proposal on the condition that the applicants provide an additional three on-site parking spaces, taking the total to 29.
It said it was satisfied the proposed use was permissible on the land with consent. It noted a request to adjourn the matter on account of some objectors beings overseas but concluded it would be unreasonable to delay determination and it was satisfied the conditions of consent would satisfactorily address amenity and environmental impacts.
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