Letters

Easy as 1-2-3

Here’s three easy steps to destroying Annandale’s heritage suburb.

Step One: Snatch planning controls from Leichhardt Council and pass them to Sydney’s Joint Regional Planning Panel – check.

Step Two: Allow plans for Woolworths to develop a 17-hour a day, mega-supermarket in Annandale – check.

Step Three: Fail to consult with Annandale residents in any way whatsoever – check.

Result: The once-quiet streets of Annandale will suffer a huge volume in cars, with trucks servicing the mega-supermarket, more traffic noise, increased pollution, plus pedestrians and children at risk.

Save Annandale Village now. Support the residents’ action group to stop this madness: SAV@live.com.au

Hugh Scott
Save Annandale Village Group

White Bay battles

The community shouldn’t still have to fight the Bailey’s development proposed for Wharf 6. It should never have been approved. It is totally inappropriate at that site – a wonderful harbour headland location in a residential area. The community and Council will continue to oppose it until the State Government rescinds the approval and, if necessary, relocates Bailey’s to a suitable industrial site.

There are so many concerns with this development that have not been, and won’t be able to be, adequately addressed. There will be a total lack of public foreshore access and considerable impacts on the area if this round-the-clock, environmentally damaging development proceeds. Proper planning processes for our foreshores have been undermined by the pre-emptive approval of this development. It is a sad indictment on our State Government and its local representative that such a development would be given the go-ahead, despite the major concerns raised by the community and all who support proper planning of our city’s precious foreshores.

It mustn’t be forgotten that a new Masterplan for White Bay was promised by the Premier in 2007 and has not been delivered. It was recognised that the area has changed. It is a fast-growing residential area in desperate need of public amenity and consideration when deciding the future of the immediate foreshore. Wharf 6 is a prime headland site that deserves special consideration. It should be set aside for the people of Sydney and visitors to enjoy and not be denigrated by noisy, hazardous industrial developments that create major disturbances for residents, and contaminate precious foreshore land and waterways.

Christina Ritchie, Balmain