New – The Green Book website
Recent comments
- Donald Holdsworth on DRAFT COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN
- Christine Hanrahan on Loss of Heritage Sandstone kerbs
- Juanita Mosterd on 2 Vernon Street saved from demolition
- Glenys Brown on Hunters Hill gardens open for inspection
Links
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Heritage Photographic Database
- Bushland and biodiversity
- Discover Hunters Hill
- Environment Defenders Office (NSW)
- Gladesville Community
- Glebe Society
- Green Book
- Habitat Network
- Historical photographic collection Ryde Library
- Hunters Hill Bushcare Volunteers
- Hunters Hill Council
- Hunters Hill Historical Society
- Lane Cove Bushland and Conservation Society
- National Trust of Australia
- Nature Conservation Council NSW
- Ryde Hunters Hill Flora & Fauna Preservation Society
- Sydney Living Museums
What is happening to public spaces in Hunters Hill?
The Trust’s concerns:
One small example of the lack of planning in our parks is the location of the bench near the Boronia Park play area – it faces away from the swings and slippery dips. As a result it’s not a good place to sit if you want to make sure your grandson isn’t using the swing to murder his sister.
The Cricket Club’s proposal for Boronia Park is another more serious example of this lack. Council is being asked to approve this, even though its own design review committee, the Conservation Advisory Panel, was scathing about it. Clearly CAP was too polite in its language. We should have called the thing the dog that it is.
You could come up with more. But, let’s face it, this proposal is in no way a considered, well designed response to a facility within a heritage-listed park.
We know that it’s possible to do a whole lot better than this. The Sydney Harbour Federation Trust and The National Parks and Wildlife Service are two bodies that properly manage the stewardship of public assets. Take a look at how the paths and landscaping at Woolwich dock have been designed and compare that to the cricket shed.
The Trust urges Council to consider tonight’s proposal in the broader light of how Hunters Hill will be seen as a steward of public places.
We urge Council to take excellence rather than thrift as a proper goal to strive for.
Hunters Hill will be judged as to how well it has fulfilled its role as a guardian of Public Places when the inevitable question of amalgamation comes up.