Preserving Our Heritage since 1968

The Hunters Hill Trust

The Hunters Hill Trust

Preserving Our Heritage since 1968

Hunters Hill Council Elections 2012

The Trust is not supporting any particular candidate for mayor or councillor.  We urge Trust members to consider the records of those sitting councillors who are standing again and to carefully examine the information that has been provided by all the candidates:  see details below.

We want representatives on Council who will work to preserve the garden character of Hunters Hill and who will support the conservation of its unique natural and built heritage.  We want councillors who will take a stand against inappropriate development and who will not be overawed by the dictates of a pro-development State government.

A    P R O – D E V E L O P M E N T  C O U N C I L ?

A number of candidates have an interest in property development and real estate. Through preference swapping between groups there is a real possibility that a pro-development lobby could end up with a majority on Council. The Trust strongly believes this would not be in the best interests of Hunters Hill.  Former councillor and long-time Trust member Phil Jenkyn has analysed the candidates and their groupings.  See Phil’s article:  http://www.discoverhuntershill.com.au/hunters_local_news.asp?id=2348

THE CANDIDATES

The Trust has put together the following from what has been provided by the candidates on the electoral commission website.  The fact that some candidates have provided little or no information about themselves or their policies clearly is something that speaks for itself.  Listed below is a summary of what was provided, plus a little more from various other websites.

To download information about the candidates for:

    Mayor – click here

    North Ward – click  here

    South Ward –  click here

To check which ward you are in – click here

For other information about this election – click here.

M A Y O R A L   C A N D I D A T E S

Richard  Quinn

  • Born 1957, lives in Hunters Hill (25 years)
  • Member of Liberal Party
  • Director of Development St Joseph’s College
  • Currently Deputy Mayor and has been a councillor and since 1999, with service on many committees
  • Despite party membership is an independent on HH Council
  • Application witnessed by Joanne Maree Wilson.

 Peter Astridge

  • Lives in Hunters Hill
  • Current councillor and for the last 17 years with service on many committees
  • No selling of community owned land to developers, replace playgrounds removed from North Ward, restrict traffic along Ryde Road, remove graffiti promptly, continue to fight against aircraft noise, proper consultation with the community over use of parks, speed up DA processing times.
  • Application witnessed by Garry John Billett.

Meredith Sheil

  • Lives in Hunters Hill
  • Sitting councillor with service on committees
  • Medical Practitioner, company director, scientist
  • Strong focus on preserving, protecting and enhancing the heritage, character, sustainability, vitality and amenity of Hunters Hill.
  • Application witnessed by Sue Hoopmann.

Ross Sheerin

  • Lives in Hunters Hill (over 45 years)
  • Sitting councillor and since 1987, Former Mayor (1993 – 1995)
  • Valuer, Member of Australian Property Institute
  • Listed as self-employed on information sheet, listed on web as principal of Belle Property Gladesville
  • Application witnessed by Michael Gallina of Belle Property.

N O R T H  W A R D:  Group A

Peter Astridge

  • See details under Mayoral candidates

 Bassam Batshon

  • Born 1956, Lives in Gladesville, resident for 41 years
  • Civil Engineer, Project manager Railcorp
  • Wants to ensure council is run effectively and ensure better management of contractors working in the streets
  • Application witnessed by Betty Di Pasqua

Peter Warner

  • Born 1939, lives in Hunters Hill
  • Retired, Held a management position with RTA
  • Served on Public Transport and Traffic Committee
  • Wants to improve footpaths, reduce charges and graffitti
  • Application witnessed by Garry John Billett

NORTH WARD: Group B

Richard Quinn

  • See details under Mayoral candidates

Mark Bennett

  • Born 1952, lives in Hunters Hill
  • Company director, Psychologist, JP
  • Interested in effective management of HH and wellbeing of aged populations
  • Application witnessed by Sue Hoopmann

Gary Bird

  • Born 1973, lives in Gladesville
  • Member Liberal Party
  • Marketing Professional
  • Application witnessed by Rajesh Thakorlal

 NORTH WARD Group C

Peter Velo

  • Lives in Hunters Hill
  • No details given
  • Application witnessed by Ross Sheerin

Nenad Vitas

  • Born 1988, lives in Woolwich
  • Member Liberal Party
  • Employed by Henry Bucks
  • A proclaimed “passion for community service since high school”
  • Application witnessed by Joanne Maree Wilson

Trent Eddington

  • Lives in Hunters Hill
  • No details given
  • Application witnessed by Ross Sheerin

NORTH WARD ungrouped

 Murray Butt

  • Lives in Hunters Hill
  • No details given
  • Application witnessed by Ida Osaux-Blessing.

S O U T H  W A R D:  Group A

Charles Amos

  • Born 1949, lives in Woolwich
  • Member Liberal Party
  • Accountant, lived in HH for 24 years.
  • Past president HH Rotary
  • Past Chairman of Caroline Chisolm Retirement Village
  • Member HHC Roads and Traffic Committee
  • Application witnessed byDavid Alexander Brown.

Julian Claxton

  • Born 1973, lives in Hunters Hill
  • Member Liberal Party
  • Independent security advisor,  skilled in counter-espionage.  Regularly engaged in confidential tasks
    across the globe.  Uses his travel experience to develop understanding of global security trends.
  • Application witnessed by Gillian Tam.

Joan-Mary Hinds

  • Born 1940
  • Principal Hinds Workforce Research
  • Background in teaching, social welfare
  • Committed to preservation of unique community atmosphere and historic environment of HH
  • Application witnessed by Mark Bennett.

SOUTH WARD  Group B

Ross Sheerin

  • See details under Mayoral candidates.

Vince Messina

  • Born 1965
  • Member Liberal Party
  • Company director
  • Application witnessed by Ross Sheerin.

 Mat Sherman

  • No details given
  • Application witnessed by Ross Sheerin.
     

SOUTH WARD  Group C

 Justine McLaughlin

  • Born 1969, has lived in Hunters Hill for 14 years
  • Solicitor
  • Past president of HH Public P&C & HH Preschool Association
  • Active in HH community
  • “Passionate about preserving the historic nature of the area and pledges to work hard to help its unque heritage”
    Application witnessed by Sue Hoopman
  • Application witnessed by Maill Bennett.

Meredith Sheil

  • See details under Mayoral candidates.

Jason Lin

  • Born 1976
  • Pharmacist with The Good Chemist retail pharmacy
  • Served on Council 2004-2008
  • Application witnessed by Sue Hoopman.

SOUTH WARD  Group D

 Zac Miles

  • Lives Hunters Hill
  • No details given
  • Application witnessed by Francis Tan. 

Anastasia Joyce

  • Lives Hunters Hill
  • No details given
  • Application witnessed by Justin Burt.

Annabel Croll

  • Lives in Huntley’s Cove
  • No details given
  • Former Councillor
  • Listed on web as Sales Executive Belle Property Gladesville
  • Application witnessed by Michael Gallina, Principal, Belle Property Gladesville

 SOUTH WARD:  ungrouped

Jim Sanderson

  • Born 1953, lives in HH
  • Engineer, design and management.  Law graduate doing a masters in planning law
    Involved in the fight to save HH High
  • Wants to do what he can to prevent concrete monstrosities
  • Application witnessed by Joo Won Maeng
2017-09-03T23:18:19+10:00August 19, 2012|

Council Elections are approaching….

They say that we get the elected representatives that we deserve.  What do WE deserve from Hunters Hill Council?   Tell the candidates what you want from Council …

keeping the character of the area?  protecting public spaces?  trees?  community services ?

 

 

2012-08-21T18:10:27+10:00August 17, 2012|

Draft Local Environment Plan 2012

The Trust takes a strong position on a number of issues in Hunters Hill Council’s Draft LEP that could weaken Council’s planning controls, including:

  • The deletion of any reference to the Conservation Advisory Panel
  • The removal of the schedule of Contributory Items
  • The increase in the maximum building height
  • The provision for 50% landscaped areas
  • The lack of identification of significant natural bushland (E2) and hence the potential lack of control in relation to the preservation of this bushland
  • The heritage status of the Hillman Orchard
  • Excessive sandstone removal
  • Tree preservation and protection of private bushland
  • The imposition of the standard government complying and exempt controls
  • Dual occupancy provisions
  • The identification and protection of Aboriginal heritage
  • Provisions for sex services within areas zoned B4 zones.

Download the Hunters Hill Trust’s full response to the Draft LEP here.

2012-06-01T13:17:19+10:00May 31, 2012|

Australia’s Stained Glass: the Scottish Heritage

Dr Beverley Sherry, Hunters Hill Trust Member and author of Australia’s Historic Stained Glass will be giving a presentation on the contribution of Scottish artists to the establishment and development of stained glass in Australia. Scotland was a leader in the nineteenth-century revival of stained glass, and artists who trained there, especially in the Glasgow area, emigrated to Australia and established firms of their own. The talk will be illustrated with stained glassby Lyon & Cottier (Sydney), Ferguson & Urie (Melbourne), as well as examples of stained glass in Scotland.

Free event, all welcome

1:00pm- 2:00pm FRIDAY JUNE 29th

Room S325, John Woolley Building, Sydney University (near Parramatta Road footbridge)

 

2012-05-21T14:10:23+10:00May 20, 2012|

Boronia Park: Reconstruction of Oval no3 – Hunter’s Hill Rugby

sediment washes into Boronia Park

Those of you living nearby will have been disturbed over recent months by the numbers of heavy trucks entering the Park, loaded up with material removed for the widening of the M2 and delivering many thousand tonnes of fill to substantially raise the footprint and level of Oval no3.  Funding for the reconstruction is being provided via the Hunter’s Hill Rugby Club which is apparently also controlling the works and has not been required to submit a development application.  No consent has been given as Hunter’s Hill Council considers the works fall under ‘Division 12 – Parks and other public reserves Clause 66 Exempt development of SEPP (Infrastructure) 2007’. However, under the Act for Exempt Development, works need to be “carried out by or on behalf of a public authority” which would not include the Rugby Club.

We have questioned whether due process in the planning phase has occurred with the required assessment of environmental impacts, given that Boronia Park is Heritage listed Crown  Land and contains sensitive bushland with endangered ecological communities and species protected under both Commonwealth and State legislation.  It also provides a significant habitat corridor and has received valuable restoration work by both volunteers and contractors over many years.
Heavy rains over summer have resulted in failures of the sedimentation fence and significant discharge of the imported fill into good bushland, along the Great North Walk and into the street below with drainage to the Lane Cove river and the harbour (see photos
from Alister Sharp, 21.1.12).  (more…)

2014-01-21T23:26:59+11:00February 14, 2012|

Still waiting?

Have you ever suffered a long, long silence after raising a concern with Hunters Hill Council?

You may be interested in one of Council’s longstanding policies that amongst other things,  promises to

  • ‘respond to customer enquiries promptly and efficiently’
  • ‘reply to correspondence within ten working days’

Check the policy details for yourself:  what Council has promised

2012-02-09T16:51:41+11:00February 9, 2012|

A house in my street

On January 21, 1930, in the middle of the world’s busiest city, excavation for  New York’s Empire State Building began.  14 months later, on May 1 1931, the building was officially opened.

At 102 storeys it was for years the world’s tallest building.  Around  21,000 people work there every day.  It has a total floor area of 257,211  square metres.  Each day’s work on the build produced 612 square metres of  floor space.  It cost, in today’s dollars, around $500 million or $1,944  per square metre.

In my quiet suburban street there is a house being built that has been under  construction since the beginning of October 2009.  For the past 28 months,  six days a week, teams of carpenters, concretors and sundry tradesmen have been  building a two-storey, detached house.  With a floor area of around 200  square metres, it is not a mega-mansion.  However more than $5 million dollars  have already been spent on the build and its completion is still a long way off.

When the house is finally finished, each square metre of floor area will have cost  around $27,500 and each day of its build will have produced a mere 0.9 square  metres of floor space.

(more…)

2012-02-14T22:02:56+11:00February 9, 2012|

Masterplan for Gladesville hospital site

130 people recently attended community meetings to discuss the future of this huge, precious, publicly owned site.  Recommendations from the meetings are available here.   The draft Masterplan for will be made available for comment at the end of October and delivered to the Health Department just a month later.  Key documents are located at www.health.nsw.gov.au/hospitals/gladesville_mp.asp

 

 

2011-10-10T11:02:15+11:00October 10, 2011|

We are a volunteer community organisation with over 50 years’ proud representation on behalf of the residents of Hunters Hill, advocating for our suburb’s unique heritage and environment.

If you would like to donate to our cause, your contributions will be greatly appreciated and very carefully used.

Donations can be via bank transfer to: CBA Bank; BSB 062000; Acct 16211909, or by cheque payable to Hunters Hill Trust sent to PO Box 85, Hunters Hill 2110.

Please email us at huntershilltrust@gmail.com so we can acknowledge your kind contribution.

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