Letter to the Editor

The three week* siege of the 1948 caretaker’s cottage in heritage-listed Rushcutters Bay Park highlights a growing disillusionment with Sydney Council’s oxymoronic town planning process (City News, December, 8). Removal of this vintage cottage is unnecessary, unsustainable and unwanted. Claims that zoning laws demand demolition are fiction. The park’s general open space zoning applied after the cottage was built, not before, and are not retrospective. There is no law requiring its immediate demolition otherwise this would have occurred decades ago. Its adaptive reuse as an artist’s studio, park museum etc., are all plausible non-residential community uses that should be explored before bringing in the bulldozers.

* Editor: as at today’s date

Andrew Woodhouse

President

Potts Point and King Cross Heritage Conservation Society