Taken directly from the Southcare website from the About Us > Our Purpose heading. Titled 'Vision, Mission and Values' > one of their values being Integrity
"Do what you know is right and just even when no one is looking"
Well on this occasion it's lucky someone was looking because what Southcare is proposing for the Bickley Crescent, Manning site is not right or just. Under the smokescreen of rezoning for what surrounding residents thought would be an in keeping , small aged care village type complex Southcare have proposed the total opposite.
Whilst I'm sure Southcare provide excellent services for their clients it hasn't been the same for the residents surrounding their proposed development. The proposed Bickley Crescent complex isn't in keeping with the surrounding area, privacy concerns of surrounding residents haven't been taken into consideration and traffic implications have not been looked into sufficiently.
I hope Southcare can see sense and head back towards its values as stated on their website and consider not only their clientele but also the surrounding community they are a part of.
Southcare have proposed a multi level development that is completely out of character to a beautiful residential area and have shown no care to the impact it will have on the residents.
Just look at the plans and there is the proof they don’t care and haven’t considered any of the residents on Bickley Crescent or Pether Rd. There has been no thought of privacy in the design or Traffic management for such large scale units
I acknowledge the good work Southcare does in the community and the services they provide but this design is for the wrong area and it needs to be drastically downsized to meld into the surrounding areas.
Southcare's Nicky Howe continues to disappoint me. After having a conversation with Nicky Howe last week, about plans for development on Bickley Crescent in Manning, it is now very clear to me that you DO NOT care about the local residents. You scoffed at me when I expressed my concerns of overlooking into my backyard and responded by saying "Well, you could easily have a drone fly over your backyard any given moment." What kind of heartless response is that?? You are happy to push all the traffic for your development on to us, happy to have our backyards and homes lose our privacy and feeling of safety, happy for us to lose our 'homely' street and you are happy to LIE to us!
Southcare has very helpful and knowledgeable staff who take great care in meeting specific customer needs. They offer many services for elderly people who want to stay in their own homes I didn't even know about. I highly recommend them to anyone looking to support their elderly parents with help in-and-around the house so they stay in their own homes as long as possible.
Southcare provide a valuable service yet I find their sense of 'being a part of the community' very distorted. They will happily destroy one part of the community to benifit their own plans. I thought fitting in would include integration and preservation of local neighborhoods, not trying to destroy the local community to create their own.
I received a $60 food voucher for christmas which was a lovely surprise, but staff can be very slow posting letters etc.
Staff are not helpful at all and are rude.