Prevent 224 extra cars on Stirling backstreets, along Spoonbill Road and Cedric Street

A huge commercial childcare business with extended operating hours is to be imposed on Spoonbill Road & Cedric Street, Stirling residents with at least 224 car movements per day so act now before it's too late please! A massive extended hours childcare centre that is being proposed to be built on the corner of Spoonbill Road and Cedric Street, Stirling. Spoonbill Road and Cedric Street are extremely busy in the mornings and afternoons with school and work traffic and also suffers from 'rat-run' problems of people cutting through the backstreets to avoid freeway congestion.  The Developers have supported their application, saying that there will be no adverse affects on local residents even though the 224 vehicle movements will access through Spoonbill Road which, when you have cars parked on one side it, becomes a one lane road.  Cars will be snaking from the east and north all the way through Stirling to access this massive centre in the backstreets of Stirling. The application allows for 13 bays which probably will not even cater for the centre employees let alone the parents of the 50 children dropping off each day.  Putting an estimated total of over 224 car movements in and out each day (as noted in the Traffic Report prepared for the City) trying to park, drop off and pick up children on this corner location will be a disaster, given there is such a large traffic flow and a roundabout with no ability to park on the corner. This corner is already too busy from the freeway 'rat-runners'! There will also be the increased traffic on Cedric Street from the Unit Development and lack of parking issues at the Stirling Shopping Centre. This proposed development will only add to the traffic snarls in our local area. There are plenty of sites available that are already zoned commercial, like the now 10-year empty Stirling deli site on Odin Road or the Balcatta Growers Market, which already have the size and zoning and have been well established in the area and not just dumped into a long-term residential area for the commercial gain of a couple of out of the area business suits. We will also get 'rat-parkers' that leave their car in the back streets, after dropping off their children, to catch public transport to avoid paying for parking in the City or at the train station only to return in the evening. Don’t be fooled into thinking this is for our local area as there is no preferential treatment in these centres for locals as it’s been strategically located here to capture people coming in further from the north or east to the train station or the freeway and it will fill our local streets up with 224 extra vehicle movements per day in an area already full of rat runners avoiding the freeway as they traipse through at all hours disturbing our area. The problem is that this extended hours daycare currently does not have enough carparks for employees or parents dopping children off. We request that at least 24 bays be provided, rather than 12. The access into a suburban side street, like Spoonbill Road, will cause a log-jam of cars with people parking on the street 20m from a very busy round-about.  We encourage local residents to immediately contact the City of Stirling as currently the response period is still open as the developer has outstanding information to provide and so time is of the essence.