Residents are dismayed at the deterioration of the living conditions in Bonnefin Road and the degradation of the local environment caused by ongoing over development, poor management of the street traffic and parking, neglect of the roads and footpaths and lack of consideration of the needs of the residents.

Click here if you would like to share the increasingly common sound of sandstone becoming rubble in Hunters Hill !! (more…)

Kirsty Ruddock gave a thought provoking presentation to the 2011 AGM.  Kirsty is Principal Solicitor with the Environmental Defenders Office, a not-for-profit community legal centre.

She described how the EDO takes on legal cases that can be used to set precedents to improve environmental outcomes.  She also explained how EDO can assist community groups to protect the public interest in the natural and built environment, including our precious heritage buildings.

She alerted us to the new directions in planning legislation in NSW and urged us to get together with other community groups to state what we believe needs to change.

Over the summer Hunters Hill Council has expanded the number of marked soccer fields at Riverglade Reserve from two to six.  With an assortment of sizes, the marked soccer fields now cover the greater part of the open area below the ponds, and extend to within meters of the waterside path.  It’s proposed they be in use at least three afternoons/evenings each week, as well as on Saturdays and Sundays.  Does this matter? 

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1.  ‘Detention centre’ style fencing for Hunters Hill High adjoining the Patriots Walk

2.  Expansion of organised sport at Riverglade Reserve

3.  Henley Bowling Club and waterfront land to be re-zoned

4. Adjustment of  Hunters Hill Hotel development plans

5.  Rugby Club plans to build in Boronia Park

6.  4 storey at the Overpass on the two old bank sites.

Check below for more details on each of these stories.  We have been rebuilding our website after it recently crashed and burned.

The owners of the Hunters Hill Hotel site also own 58-60 Gladesville Road, the two former bank sites on the west of Pam Tomkin’s heritage-listed house at No 62 Gladesville Road.  They have lodged a DA for a four-storey mixed use development with commercial space on the ground floor, twenty one apartments above that and underground car parking for 38 cars with a carpark entrance adjacent to No 62 off Gladesville Road and just west of the new traffic lights and carpark entrance to the hotel site development.

The Trust has made a submission to Council objecting to the development on a number of grounds, including:

• overdevelopment of the site
• lack of respect for the heritage items on either side
• disregard of the planning controls in the DCP – particularly its failure to respect the essential two-storey scale of the village
• adverse impact on traffic
• 8 metre deep excavation into the sandstone bedrock and
• the fact that its dark unsympathetic bulk will dominate the approaches to the village from Gladesville and Ryde Roads.

At this stage Council has indicated that it will move to reject this application and is prepared to fight it our in the Court should the applicant appeal the rejection.

Tony

After a day of mediation in the Land and Environment Court during which Tony Coote gave evidence about the Trust’s objections to the proposed changes to the Hotel’s DA and Chris Hartley spoke about the objections of residents in Avenue Road, the Hotel agreed to make a number of changes to the plans. (more…)

Council has given Hunters Hill Rugby Club ‘in-principle’ support to their proposal to build a community hall and obtain a 20 year lease of land in Boronia Park. (more…)

“It is the money, stupid…. plus the lack of hassle. (more…)

Volunteer Marine Rescue NSW has signed a two year lease on the waterfront site that includes the Henley Bowling Club,  (more…)