Comments on the Draft Plan of Management for Boronia Park are needed before February 27th.
Here are some suggestions for how to do a Submission.
Hunters Hill Trust members Patricia and John Taylor also give their perspective.
The Gladesville Shopping Village developers are preparing their next Development Application. They are running 2 information sessions at the former Video Ezy shop in the lower section of Gladesville Shopping Centre:
We need to make sure the next DA is not as bad as the last one: attend a meeting, make comments and ask questions.
HOW HAVE THEY ADDRESSED THE PROBLEMS IN THE OLD D.A. ?
Do you want to know more about the Draft Plan of Management for Boronia Park or get to know the park a bit better?
Meet members of the Hunters Hill Trust in front of the Boronia Park grandstand, corner of Park Road and Ryde Road for a guided walk. Walk will finish before midday.
Send your comments on the new Plan of Management to the General Manager, Hunter’s Hill Council P.O. Box 21, Hunters Hill NSW 2110 or council@huntershill.nsw.gov.au before 4pm Friday 27th February.
Come to the launch of the Community Charter and hear what the local candidates for the state seat of Lane Cove have to say about how planning and development will be conducted in NSW in future.
St Andrews Uniting Church, 47A Kenneth Street, Longueville
Light supper will be served, donation at the door.
MC: Genia McCaffery, former long-serving Mayor of North Sydney. Speakers:
Hunters Hill Trust has endorsed the Community Charter. Download a copy here.
Individuals can also endorse the Charter by clicking here.
The launch will be co-Hosted by the Lane Cove Bushland and Conservation Society, Stringybark Creek Residents Association and Hunters Hill Trust.
Get more information about the Community Charter.
Tipperary Falls
Things have been going wrong at Boronia Park recently.
damage from recent construction
Hunters Hill Council is the trustee manager of this important 24 hectare piece of Crown Land, but a lot of damage was done to the park when the Plan of Management was ignored when a new rugby oval was built.
There is a new draft Plan of Management for Boronia Park that proposes changes to the park, and lists issues and actions needed. See details of the Concept Design by clicking on the image below and waiting for it to load:
Send your comments on the new Plan of Management to the General Manager, Hunter’s Hill Council P.O. Box 21, Hunters Hill NSW 2110 or council@huntershill.nsw.gov.au.
Boronia Park Alliance. Contact the group: boroniaparkalliance@gmail.com or PO Box 2127, Boronia Park 2111:
Council’s Bushland Management Officer Jacqui Vollmer 9879 9439 vollmerj@huntershill.nsw.gov.au
Harold park development
It is hard to comprehend the scale – and the social impact of 50,000 new dwellings in high rise buildings along Parramatta Road
Burwood, Leichhardt and Auburn are all facing similar impacts
Read more: Massive increase in density is planned
Why would we want to build the world’s largest underground tollway system based on out-of-date, discredited ideas?
People of NSW want regular, reliable public transport systems.
See more from SMH: Ramming through a discredited freeway
What do you think are the main issues that need to be addressed in any major development in Gladesville. You can ONLY CHOOSE THREE (yes seriously):
Every single one of these issues is either IMPORTANT or ESSENTIAL and all of them will need to be addressed in any proposal. To single out only three issues from this list implies that the others are less import, which is clearly not the case.
This is one of the questions that people have been asked to answer as we plan the future for Gladesville Shopping Village. Tony’s Coote has made a full report on the problems that have been happening with Council’s community consultation on The future of Gladesville.
19 Bonnefin Road Hunters Hill
This building on the banks of the Lane Cove River is nearly completed. It is a classic example of our failure to ‘conserve and enhance the character and environmental identity of Hunters Hill’.
It certainly does not ‘maintain and enhance qualities of scenically prominent landscape settings’ and it ‘detracts from the existing character of landscape settings’.
In other words, it fails to address the objectives of the Development Control Plan and fails to comply with at least one of its controls. Construction has continued, despite letters and representations to Council.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN, and
HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN
The pressure from property owners wanting to build large mansions on our river fronts is growing.
Council needs urgently to address these questions before any more irreparable damage is done.
After getting more than 1,800 submissions from outraged community members, the NSW government has announced changes to the 10/50 Code that has led to mass destruction of trees – regardless of threatened species legislation and tree preservation orders.
The entitlement area has been reduced to 100m for Category One and 30m for Category Two vegetation. The previous area was 350m and 150m respectively. The online mapping tool on the NSW RFS website has been updated: Vegetation clearing map. Heavy penalties apply to people who clear vegetation without authorisation.
Since 1 August this year, residents whose homes are located in designated ‘bushfire prone’ areas have been free to:
o Clear trees within 10m of their house
o Clear shrubs and other vegetation, except for trees within 50m of their house.
There will be a review, but we still need a MORATORIUM:
Contact Minister Ayres (office@ayres.minister.nsw.gov.au ) and the Premier (diary@premier.nsw.gov.au ). Details: Ayres Media Release 10-50
